FIGHTING ON THE WEST FRONT AS VIEWED BY THE ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3060, 23 April 1917, Page 5

FIGHTING ON THE WEST FRONT AS VIEWED BY THE ENEMY

... : . (Rec. April .22, 5.5 p.m.) . '. ' , . , „'■■' London, April 20. ': A wireless German report states: The artillery activity increases daily on the, Arras 'battlefield. The occupation of a fortified zone of the Siegfried and Hindenbuig positions, -which had long been under construction, began on Maroh 16 and terminated yesterday by -flie abandonment of the Aishe bank between Port de Gonde and Soupir, Tho enemy follows hesitatingly. ■ 'The :battle<on tiie , Aisne and in the Champagne continues normally. There is strong-artillery iire on the OheminPdes-Da-mes ridge. 'Strong French attacks near Braye and 'Cerriy on both, sides of the Craonne failed :■■" The French yesterday renewed the attempt to outflank our Brimont position. Tho French storming waves from the Aisne-Marne Canal five times broke down sanguinarily. We are masters of tho situation. ihere was daylong 'fighting in :tho'Champagne in the wooded region between the ThuimiyNauroy Road ;and Aaiberive,. which latter we voluntarily evacuated. ' Our counter attack pressed .hack rthe enemy and wo readied our objective. Thus the second French attempt to ibreak through the Champagne was frustrated The French so far lave used more than thirty divisions, on both battlefields ißVonch attempt rto recapture the positions they lost on April 17 failed but they again gained;* footing on .the summit.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reute'r

; (Rec. April 22, 5.5 p.m.) in' ■ i ■ '' ( , London, AprilSO. A-German -wireless message The 'gradual increase in the artillery fire .between Loos and Arras-eambrai railway continues; The troops representing all the German peoples, are,performing heroic deeds'hourly under the heaviest fire,.faitMul in their endurance to the death on the mighty battlefields of the Aisne and the Champagne. . ■ We repulsed with severe losses the Franco-Russiane at .Brimont. dlhe French stubbornly attacked near Braye, from the Paissy Plains as far eastwards as Craonne, and between Prosnes and Suippeß. Erench attacks on Cliamin-des-Danies and in the Ohnmpagne 'broke clown —Aus.-N.Z. -.Cable Asan. '' ' ■ ■■■ •_■ "..-.•,• TWENTY-TWO SHATTERED DIVISIONS WITHDRAWN. ... London, April 20. Wireless advices from Switzerland state tha 6 the Germans have withdrawn twenty-two divisions from-the front in order to reconstruct 'them — I Aus.-N.Z.'CaT)lo Assn. ~ [ ■ -Ii ■ ' . GERMAN DESERTERS FIGHT THE UHLANS. • ! (Rec. April 22, 5,5 p.m.) ' „„ „_.-..■ ._. -.■,,„. ' '. ' London, April ,20. llie Uironiele's" Amsterdam correspondent reports tliat over 500 (xerman Fusiliers, sailors, and Landsturmers from Ehocke tried to cross the trontier .of Holland near Cadzand on Monday night. The Germans at Bruges sent 200 Wans with machine-guns to intercept the-fugitives, and there-was a imlWiours fight on the dunes near the frontier. Eight funded men managed to reach Holland. Many others were wounded on iboth sides The remaining deserters scattered.—Aus.-N.Z. 'Cable Assn. GERMANY'S PREPARATIONS FOR.DEMOBILISATION. (Rec. April 22, 5.5-p.m.) ... . , . Berne, April 20. A wireless message from Germany states that the Reichstag's Committee oil trade and industry discussed after-tlie-war demobilisation. The Ministry of War intimated its intention to avoid flooding the country with unemployed, and added the Government had decided not to discharge any man until work had been found for him. It ia anticipated that hundreds of thousands will remain in the army for several months after, tie war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cfet>!» .ks.an.