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GENERAL NEWS. GENERAL NIVELLE’S TACTICS. CAPTURE OfTSaYE HEIGHTS. A HURRIED RETREAT. (Published in ‘The Times.’) Received April 25, 1.55 p.m. LONDON, April 24. Mr Campbell gives a typical instance of General Nivelle's tactics in the capture of Brave Heights. The Soupir Plateau is densely wooded and ravined, and is 600 feet in height, with a network of trenches. A division feinted a frontal attack, and next day five battalions at different points worked their way through the woods and outflanked the Germans, who fled so hurriedly that there was no time to bring up the gun teams. The French captured 50 guns, many machine guns, much material, and 2000 prisoners. The hurriedness of the retreat was shown by the facts of there being uneaten cooked meals and half-finished letters. WHY GERMANS FELLED TREES. TO PREVENT COVER. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) Received Anril 25, 1.55 p.m. ■AMSTERDAM, April 24. A Berlin official message announces that the reason for the felling of the fruit trees in the evacuated territory was to prevent the enemy using their leaves in summer for cover.