GENERAL OFFENSIVE.
NO APPRECIABLE RESULTS. '• 3W»fr»pli—•Pieaa li»oci&tion—Coeyright (Received April 11, 10.45 a.m.) PARIS, April 10. A' eonmraniqno says that the operations on April 9 marked the first great attempt at a general offensive on a front exceeding twenty kilometres. The JJermana obtained no appreciable revolts, considering their losses, to which the bodies heaped in front of our lines i • bearwitnefs. . There was & violent bombardment /.wesb of the Meuse throughout the 'jiight, especially at Hill 301. i The enemy's attack at Morthomme yesterday was repulsed, with important losses, but it enabled the Germans to penetrate our advanced trenches at Hill 295 for a length of five hundred' metres. Ihere was a sharp struggle east of the Meuse during the night, in the little wood of Fontaine Saint-Martin. , .We progressed in the enemy's coiumutrenches south at Douauciout.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11671, 11 April 1916, Page 1
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