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Show GREAT FORCES FIGHT Germans Bring Up Fresh 1 1 Divisions Against I I British. II NEW DRIVE TO START I Gas Shells Thrown I Throughout Night by I the Huns. I WITH THE BRITISH ARMY TN I FRANCE, April .8, 11 a. m (By The Associated Press.) The Germans brought up fresh divisions for the hard thrusts which they made yesterday. Although, the. British were unable to hold Wytschaete and Meteren. which 'hey had re-taken by a brilliant counter-attack, they beat off the enemy elsewhere. The British maintained their line throughout the night. A renewed heavy bombardment of the British front between the La Bassee canal, at Givenchy, and the Nieppe forest suggests the Germans contemplate another drive in this region re-gion in the hope of taking Bethune and creating a new salient. All the areas back of this sector of the front .were sprinkled with gas shells throughout lat night. At 3 o'clock this morning the bombardmen' was nearly of drum fire intensity between be-tween Locon and Robece. wrhore ihe eneruv has tried repeatedly to advance his line to the canal. Six he. ivy attacks were delivered yesterday by the Germans between Bailleul and Ypres in an attempt to bend back the British front still further fur-ther and to create another dangerous salient in the Flemish marshec. Kemmel hill was assaulted by three waves of Germans about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, but the enemy was thrown back with heavy casualties and a counter-attae k completely restored the British line. Other attacks were broken by British machine gun fire, Attack On Belgian Line. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, April 18. (By the Associated Associat-ed Press.) An effort made by the Bourth German army which holds the enemy's right flank to the sea to drive in the front of the allies from the coast was extended yesterday to j theYser region held by the Belgians. At 8.30 o'clock in the morning, after an all-night bombardment, the Germans Ger-mans attacked on a front of four miles between Laugemarck and Kippe. The Germans gained a footing in the Belgian advanced positions, but they were thrown out after a fight lasting nearly all day Tho Belgians took 600 prisoners, including officers belonging to four different divisions. oo |