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Show uu GERMANS LOSE IH lb ii a lit a I 111 U JLUu'iu SOITHJF VIMY Thousand Yards of Trenches, Captured by British With Wancourt Hill. ELEVEN GUNS LOST Germans Vigorously Shelling New Allied Positions Be- ond Heights of Vimy. LONDON, April 12, 330 p. m. About 1,000 yards of trenches south of Farbus wood In the region south of Vimy were captured by the British this morning, Reuter's correspondent telegraphs from tho front. A hill southeast of Wancourt also was captured. cap-tured. The British yesterday took eleven additional guns in the fighting between Croisllles and tho Scarpe. Tho dispatch reads "The latest news this morning is that Ave occupied about 1,000 yards of trenches running south from tho commandant's house to tho southward of Farbus wood and have cleared the ground to the bank of tho Cojeul river. Wo also occupied a German trench running southeast from Neuvlllc-Vl-tasse and have taken hill No. 90, lying southeast of Wancourt. "Between Croisllles and the River Scarpe our troops captured 11 more guns In the course of yesterday's fighting. "The enemy is shelling our new positions beyond Vimy ridgo." Germans Are Reinforced. "The post 24 hours has been marked by a general Increase in tho intensity of the fighting The Gormans appear to have been reinforced in tho positions posi-tions upon which tho British assaults have driven them back and are offering offer-ing desperate resistance to the heavy British pressure. "Various counter attacks were launched but, with tho exception of Bullecourt, these met with no success. Fighting for tho key position at Monchy-Lo-Preux was very bitter, but with the British retaining all their gains and consolidating tho positions. "Time now Is required to get forward for-ward the, big guns and to make good the communications bofare attempting another stroke." Fighting In Rumania. PETROGRAD, via London, April 12, 3: $3 p. m. (British admiralty per Wireless Press.) "On the Western (Russian) Rumanian and Caucasian fronts," the war office announced today, to-day, "there woro scouting reconnaissances reconnais-sances nnd reciprocal firing." British Attack Falls. BERLIN, April 12, via London, 5:47 p. m. British attacks, participated in by cavalary and armored cars to tho north of Monchy yesterday, says tho official statement Issued today by tho German array headquarters staff, broke down with heavy losses. From Soissons to Rheims, tho German Ger-man statement adds, the nrtillery firing fir-ing increased to great violence. In the western Champagne tho artillery' firing fir-ing is increasing, Yestorday the French nnd British, according to the statement, lost 24 airplanes on tho western front. "On the northern bank of -the river Scarpo," tho Gorman statement says, "Britnsh attacks in Vimy and Fam- poux during a violent artillery firo woro repulsed. "To the south tho enemy brought forward strong forces for a thrust. After frequent assaults, Monchy was lost. To tho north there wero British attacks." |