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Show DEEP CUT IS MADE BY HUNS Portuguese Men and Guns Are Taken by the German Forces. LONDON' April 10 General Maurice Mau-rice said today: "In the fighting yesterdav the enemy advanced In the eenter to a depth of 5500." said Cencral Maurice. "It is quite certain we loaf some guns. In an advance of such a depth considerable Portuguese artillery must have been lost and probably a number of prisoners. prison-ers. "In the retirement of the French on the line of the Ailette river. two French battalions were cut off and the to rmans took about 2000 prisoners," i said General Maurice "Armentiere-s," Oeneral Maurice wen i on. 'is now little more than a heap of ruins and its loss would not be a vital matter. It is not lost yet and we hope it will not be, but it maj be." From the vicinity of Estalres the Brilish are holding the line of the river riv-er Lawe southward for a short distance, dis-tance, the front then curving in a i southeasterly direction and coupling up with the original line at or near Givenchy The maximum depth of the German penetration was apparently about four and a half miles at Estalres. Givenchy, Given-chy, at one time in German hands during dur-ing the attack, was re-taJten by the British in a counter thrusL The German effort on this new iroill. II I ' MIITTOIS ill liu lunuri tent than it apparenty has so far, does not seem Ufcely to have any greater effect than to compel modifications in the British line north of La Bassec canal The French were more hotly engaged en-gaged at one point, giving some ground In a heavy attack by the Germans Ger-mans near Hangard-en-Santerre, but re-establishing their position in a OOUnter-attack No serious attempts appear to have been made by the German.-, to advance at other points on th French front net |