VARYING FORTUNES IN STRUGGLE AT ST. ELOI
BRITISH HOLD URL" CRATERS AND GERMANS TWO.
LOSS OF ONE MACHINE EACH IN EIGHT AERIAL FIGHTS.
ENEMY EXPLODES MINES NORTH-EAST OF VERMELLES.
(Received April 12, 40 p.m.)
London, April 11. Sir Douglas Eaig reports: " Grenade fighting for the crater east of St. Eloi. continues with varying fortunes. " We hold three craters, but not the other two. "During eight aerial fights we brought down an enemy machine and lost one of our machines, which was brought down by gunfire. " The enemy exploded mines north-east of Vermelles, damaging a portion of the o\d crater, without altering the situation."
A telegram from Amsterdam gives the text of a German communique. It states that a strong bombing attack by the British ob the crater south of St. Eloi failed. The entire position remained in the hands of the Germans. Anti-aircraft guns brought down two allied aeroplanes south-east of Ypres.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16203, 13 April 1916, Page 5
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