INCREASED GERMAN FIRE.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 96, 25 April 1917, Page 5

INCREASED GERMAN FIRE.

GROUND ALIVE WITH SNIPERS

(United Serviw.) (Received April 25, «.4S p.m.) ~ LONDON; April M. . Correspondeuts comment;'mi the greatly increased German artillery iire in the second phase of the, Arras battle, the German gunners returning shell for shell. The ground is aliire with snipers. Ma_y British were shot from behind after entering the German lines. The heaviest British losss were due to barrages and machine-guns, not to the German infantry, who preferred surrender to hand-to-hand encounters. The fighting disclosed the immense strength of the Oppy. line shielding, the Hindenburg line, bat the captiwe of Gavrelle puts us astride tlie former.