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Show ALUES SMASH HOLE IH THE TEUTON UME GERMAN RESERVE ARMY IS HALTED BY FRENCH AND BRITISH FORCES. Biggest Effort Yet Made by Hun Lead, ers in Flander3 Offensive Fails, Attacking Forces Being Thrown Back With Terrible Losses. I'nris. - The entente jn?!.:;I line lliis been advanced ln'tui-rn Clyue and Ki-iniricl. Tin; Franco-British forces also have made some progress south of that, retina. French forces Tuesday held the whole of the town of Locre west of Kenmiel, including the holly contested Mospice. The idlieil line also made home progress, slightly Improving the position around Yillers-Bretonneux. Tuesday's attack was the biggest effort ef-fort Iho (iermnns have yet made 111 the Flanders offensive, the enemy employing employ-ing about thirty fresh battalions of reserves, re-serves, in addition to the large hum--her of divisions In position at the beginning be-ginning of the battle. A satisfactory feature of the struggle strug-gle Is that the British and French employed em-ployed relatively small forces to defeat de-feat the enemy. At one point the French were forced to yield u little ground, hut supports, promptly arrived and drove back the Germans. Ily 11 :J0 o'clock In the morning the Germans had forced their way through near Ixicre as far ns Hyde 1'ark corner, between Scherpenborg and Mont Rouge. This was one of the critical moments of the day, but the French counter-altack fiercely, and mi hour later bad pressed back the enemy on the (lank and held him in the center. The Franco-British troops took a large number of prisoners during the lighting, hut there were fewer than the magnitude of the struggle would lead one to expect, owing to the desperate des-perate hand-to-hand encounters engaged en-gaged in. The prisoners show considerable dejection de-jection at the failure of Von Arnim's heavy thrust and admit that the task ahead of the German army threatens to bleed the fatherland of l'i manhood. |