SURPI USED GERMANS.
VIOLI BNT ATTACK ON !BVACU' ftTED POSITIONS
I!3\"EMY' S 3 'IMPORTANT LOSSES
FOUR GTCB '^TAN AEROPLANES/ BRO UG&TT DOWN. (Reeer^dr lAptntl 5, 1.40 a.m.) ~ PARIS, April 4; A commiLiiqne st-ates: Our artillery h\e\r up an >' c tiemy blockhouse andammunition iSepot -at Avocourt Wtjod. A violent" G\3v'>man -attack was made between: HahiV>urt' ttnd Bethincotfirfc against our o ( ld\ positions north of tliic Forges Bvook. the enemy not knem--ing that wo ha fl evacuated them oni ihe night of, MarVsh 31st. Our surpriset firo from pur new positions inflicteS. important losses. We further forced back the enemy • sit Caillette; Wood. ( Our final counter,- \ attack, p.specially violent, regained the westei-n portion of Vaux village Thirty-one Allied1 aircraft as a reprisal for the Dunkirk raid,' dropped S3 heavy bombs on the enemy's cantonments in the Hbuthoulst region Our aviators brought down four more German machines in the Verdun region.
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 81, 5 April 1916, Page 5
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148SURPI USED GERMANS. Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 81, 5 April 1916, Page 5
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