REPULSED WITH APPALLING LOSSES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2754, 25 April 1916, Page 5

REPULSED WITH APPALLING LOSSES

GERMAN ATTACKS ON MOOT HOMME

DO OR DIE ORDER BLINDLY OBEYED

By Telegraph.—Press Association-Copyright

(Rec. April 24, 8.50 p.m.)

Desperate attacks on Mort Homme on Saturday ended'm mshfng defeats for the Crown Princes army, The latter was ordered that Mort Homme was to be captured at any cost, and thrce attacks were hurled-against the position, with a fourth against Caurettes Wood as a diversion. The first attack on Mort'Homme was delivered in a heavy rainstorm. The Germans pushing forward with blind courage, rushed the trenches on the northern 6lope, but a counter-attack drove them out. ' atti } ol£ ™ Caurettes Wood the Germans squirted blazing liquid over the French, lhe latter were unshaken. Although torrents of fire swept over their trenches, they stood their ground, while the French machine-guns poured a terrific hail into the masses of advancing Germans, "causing tliem hnally to retire aftej- appalling losses. It is reported that the Silcsians lost *u per cent, or their effectives, r , GERMAN ANXIETY ON THE YPRES FRONT S # . 9 IS A' BIG BRITISH "PUSH" IMMINENT? Correspondents at British Headquarters point out thtrthTfom"!}™ attacks on the Ypres salient are indicative of the growing fierceness in to fighting during.March aud + April. .They are not necessarily 7pSimry to a big German offensive, but are proof that the enemy feels he is compelled to confront the British line with a, strong force, and Regards the British push as imminent. Though the enemy does not dare to detach-'from the other &9&s£Sto ■!»" f ™» GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. (Rec. April 24, 7.55 p.m.) A Berlin communique to utulerground fiool^relfdmng^rKfe^td 0 VS eVao " ated th ° WlleS W6 had 0a Albert M Ro 0 ad ElitiSll atta ° kS repulsed at St ' Eloi and the Baupaume • "A gas attack at Tracy le Val was foiled, the gas clouds being blown back on the French positions. . "We captured the trenches west of Mort Homme and south-east of Haucourt.