GERMAN WAVES MOVED DOWN.
ALLIES' LINE NEITHER BROKKN NOR BENT.
VERY HEAVY LOSSES
INFLICTED
Australian and N. 2.. Cable Associattbr (Reuter's Telegram.).
(Received May 1, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 30.
Correspondents agree that the Gernmn.s suffered! nothing less than a disastrous defeat m the first phase of the battle, consequent on their desperate attempts to capture the line of hills the Allies' hold of which endangers their possession of Mount Kemmel. They probably used thirteen divisions from east of Ypres southwards, with two more north. The violence of the gunfire on both sides was never greater. The successful defence made the day the bloodiest hitherto for the enemy, as attack after attack was smashed. The Germans had already suffered heavily on Sunday, when concentrations of troops were caught and .shattered by gunfire. Their waves yesterday were mowed down, and the British wings and French centre were neither broke nor. i bent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 3
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