Paris, Apr. 14.
The western front saw two attacks yesterday. At down the Germans launched a well-prepared onslaught with a whole company preceded by heavy artillery preparation, including fire from large-calibre mortars, and extending nearly a mile along the front. The attackers reached barbed wire entanglements near the French lines, where they were beaten off with heavy losses by French artillery and infantry fire.
West of the Voges a French flying squad delivered a big attack and captured a German post, Details of this feat are not yet available, There was also an engagement yesterday between French and German detachments in an abandoned, village, The body of a German officer who led yesterday's attack on an island in the Rhine has been found.
Artillery activity west of the. Vosges is announced in a French communique.—Reuter.
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