GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT
BRITISH ATTACKS BREAK DOWN
LONDON, 25th April,
Wireless, per Admiralty Press.—A German official message states : Fighting for Gavrelle has continued since yesterday. Southward of the Scarpe a British attack on a wide front on both sides of the Arras-Cambrai road broke
down, after violent hand-to-hand fighting with heavy losses. We took sixtyfive prisoners on Monday, and destroyed several tanks. The English and French on Monday and Tuesday lost thirty-nine aeroplanes. Three British attacks northward of. Monchy. were repulsed with heavy losses. : ."_■■. ■' ■ :
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1917, Page 7
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