ATTACKS ON HILL 304.
THREE BEATEN BACK. ENORMOUS ENEMY LOSSES. PARIS, April 10. The Petit Parisian says that the Germans hurled at least a division into the fray between Avoconrt and the cross roads south of Bethincourt, their objective being Hill 304. . They advanced in oompany column, not heeding their einormous losses, till they got within 100 yards of the French lines, where they were completely mown down. They returned to the attack thrice, and then retreated beaten. The High Commissioner adds,: In ,the Woevre there was a bombardment of "the villages at the foot of the Meuse heights.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16667, 12 April 1916, Page 5
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