THE GREAT WAR.

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18325, 26 April 1917, Page 5

THE GREAT WAR.

DESPERATE FI6HTIHB FIERCE HAND-TO-HAND CONTESTS Strength of the hindenburq line j ■ j MANY NEW GERMAN TROOPS GERMAN DESTROYERS HARRIED BY BRITISH AIRSHIPS 266 th day of the 3rd year.

Fierce battle* are now proceeding; —on the Western front, each" eidft .•^rufflEfling hard for yiotwry. . ««•••«* ,_ vv. ' ,•■•,.• . ' - b The Hindeaburg line is of great? , „ ,!' , ' ' , ..•irength, and fresn German troops are bejng poured in. to defend the . • . m : „ . ■-■;■..' •po^taon. They are fighting m the / , . ..■♦pen, and giving and taking hiard vibiowe. . . ' ' ••••■*•' The crucial point of the -struggle '■i i • . , i ■v j voul(| appear to have" been reached, : and much anxiety is manifested a* to its outcome. ■

So far the results ait- in favour of N,, .... , the Allies, who have made appre- .., . . advance*', and oaptiu'ed many prisonetne. . . •##»♦♦# Serena! German destroyers have , ■. . *• i been-damaged and put to flight by . . °. ' Bntish air ships. n , Iveports continue to arrive showing 1 that terrible battles are raging on £ho West front. • & Germans ha,ve never used greater numbens in oounter attacks.