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Show SLAUGHTER OF GERMAN FORCES i On the Belgian frontier. April 27. Today's reportB indicate that the terrific loss of the Germans in their great efforts to smash the allies on I the Yser have been merely thrown ' away. It is now certain that the I remnants of the German attacking force which managed to pass the Yrct and take possession of Lizerne, have been almost annihilated. No Germans now remain on the left bank of the canal The fighting is far more terrible than that which took place in the autumn, when the canal ran red with blood, and has thrown the Germans back to the right bank. Tho Germans were driven oat of lizerne yesterday when their last man left the place as a consequence i of the terrible accuracy of the Eng-. Eng-. llsh artillery On the little wedgo in tho lines the allies' efforts were at once concentrated. So severe was I the fighting that only smashed walls and dead opponents were found when the British advance took place Bloody Battles Raging. Bloody fights have been raging for the last two days along the canal, on the front from Steenatraate and Li rerne to Boesinghe, where the Germans Ger-mans were shelling the road to Elver-dinghe, Elver-dinghe, to stop the sending of rein forcements. Round the northerly part of this section the fiercest encounter? took place Heavy reinforcements brought up by both sides were launched launch-ed in thft hftttl Thp allies had been preparing a tremendous move forward for-ward which agn cost the Germans heavy losses and rendered futile most of their work of the previous days. All along the section of the line due east and west from St Jnllen, toward to-ward Graven6tafel, the British thun dered into the German trenches a murderous mur-derous hail of shell. In this movement, move-ment, which threatened the rear of the German line fighting on the Yser, coupled with the magnificent qualities quali-ties shown by the men on the canal itself, that caused the Germans to hurriedly hur-riedly evacuate the hard won ground. All Indications point to the fact that the offensive lias now deflnltel passed to the allies, Bvl,.y having brought up reinforcements, are attack ing. The Germans have been retaliat ing by dropping borrfts upon places behind the allies' line and are nov. rushing all available troops to the St. Julien line to meet ihe advance of the British. In this neighborhood the decision may be looked for. A German lieutenant, taken prisoner io the Yser fighting, says that during dur-ing the earlier encounters a force cf 600 Belgians made a surprise attack and pushed the Germans into the cr.-nal. cr.-nal. More than 60 Germans were drowned. Some fugitives, however, managed to summon reinforcements, which arrived in on crwhelming force, at the same time the German artillery artil-lery directed a destructive fire upon the allies. oo |