Smashed.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 April 1918, Page 3

Smashed.

More Fruitless Hun Battering AT THREE YTTAL POINTS. [ELECTRIC TELEGItAI'IX—COPYRIGHT.] tPKH PRESS ASSOCIATION.J Received at 8.40 a.m. to-day. London, April I. German attacks on the outskirts of Albert and north of Montdidier were smashed. The Germans also failed to capture Grivesnes after fierce lighting. GERMANS ENTER MOREUIL BRILLIANT ANGLO" FRENCH ADVANCE. Received 11 a.m. to-day. London, April 1. The Germans have entered Horeuil. The Anglo-French brilliantly pushed back the Germans westward of Hangard-en-Santerre and recaptured the latter. HOLDING FIRM AT ALL i POINTS. . Received 11 a.m. this day. Washington, April 1. Officials here have received a cable from General Bliss, Chief of Staff on the American front, that the French are holding the enemy at all points. BLOODY PRICE FOR LITTLE GAIN. TERRIFIC STRUGGLE ON FRENCH LINE. Received 11 a.m. to-day. Paris, April 1. Colonel Rousset, in the newspaper Liberie, says: "The (British are standing fast with splendid tenacity and the enemy is exhausting himself in bloody onslaughts, bringing only a few insignificant gains of territory. "The struggle on our part of the line is terrific. The Germans must feel profound admiration and a certain terror at the unflinching valour of our men. The Crown Prince's armies deployed along a front of sixty kilometres between MoreUil and Lassigny back to Yon Marwitz's armies who are fighting on the west, face to face with the British." Official comment on the fighting says: "The German offensive has broken against the iron wall of our first reserves. The Crown Prince paid with thousands of lives for the temporary conquest of a few villages. "The enemy effort to obtain Amiens proved a bloody defeat." M. Abrani, Under-Secretary for War, in a statement to the newspapers said: "We witnessed yesterday an unforgettable spectacle. The Germans brought up thirteen divisions in the Montdidier region where three French divisions met the shock. With incomparable elan they advanced with the bayonet and artillery and put their assailants to flight after a terrific struggle. "The Germans are now constructing a second line of entrenchments in the region of Lassigny."

* the spent blow. ] COST GERMANY A MILLION effectives. Received at 8.40 a.m. to-day. New York, April 1. The New York Times' Washington correspondent, says: JLfce Allied missions m Washington believe the German drive is nearly spent, They estimate the British killed, missmp; and prisoners at about 10,000. , , "The Germans employed about 1,250,000 men in the drive, whereof it is estimated . only 250 000 are effective for imme diate fighting. The rest are either killed, wounded, prisoner ed or worn-out troops. HUGE GERMAN AERIAL LOSSES. HKItfAI2TB TRIUMPHANT aviators. Received 11 a.m. to-day. London, April 1. A record number of aeroplanes 821. The lomm f,; «,e w r t <r„»t r l,e«. a. 155. THEY MEANT TO EO. GERMANY'S FOILED PLAN;•> Received at 9.15 a.m. to day. London, April Aneuter's correspondent with the French army says the military papers captured include maps issued to officers and subofficers detailing the Geimun plan o£ attack. On the hacks ot the mips are reports prepared ot the advance corresponding to the ■ anticipated stages of the attack. These reports were to be sent to the (rear as each successive objective was reached. The pro rrress of the infantry was calculated at 200 metres a minute which is twice the rate allowed m previous offensives. Ori reaching the open country thev were to advance by means o± heavy blows in rapid succession in order to bring about local retirements. The moment our troops fell back the Germans would follow, thus threatening units which had not retired and which would then be subjected to a rfiesh frontal attack.