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Show REPORT FROM BRITISH FRONT German Attacks on Hill No. 60 Have All Failed and Entire En-tire Crest Is Held by Allies. GREAT SHELLS FIRED Aviator Makes Daring Single-handed Single-handed Attack on Airship Shed at Ghent Runs Gauntlet of Fire. London. April 23. 11 30 a m There was given out in London this morning the regular semi-weekly report re-port on conditions at the front It Is dated April 22 and reads "The German attacks on Hill No. 60, which had stopped at the time of issuing the report of last Monday, have been renewed several limes. "These attacks all failed and for the time being they have ceased e hold the entire creBt of the hill and so deny its use to the enemy, who have attached great importance to it 17-Inch Shells Fired. "There is not and there never has been any truth in the German official communication that the enemy had recaptured re-captured this position During the operations around hill No. 60 the enemy fired shells 17 inches in diameter diame-ter Into the town of Ypres. "On April 21, in the neighborhood ot a i-iassee. the nnemy exploded two mines opposite our rlRht. They failed to do damace to our trenches Havlnc discovered Herman mining operations op-erations In the neighborhood of Le Touquet. near Armentiers, we forestalled fore-stalled their effort this morning by exploding a mine which we had prepared pre-pared there. "On April 19 one of our airmen car ried out a very bold and successful ingle-handed attack on an airship shed near Client He had to run a gauntlet of fire from the ground, directed di-rected by a captive balloon, lu order to attack bis objective Tn spite of this he came down to within 200 feet of the ground and effected his object causing a serious explosion in the shed. |