New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
Biggest Territory Won
Since Fall, Says
Report.
HILL BLOWN UP,
HUNDREDS SLAIN
Gap Permitted Advance
Into Open Back of the
German Lines.
RETURN ATTACKS FAIL
Fighting Fierce as at Neuve
Chapelle and Bodies Lie
Thick Around Trenches.
lBy Cable % Tho Tribunal I

lBy Cable TO Tho Tnbunel
London, April 20.-A dispatch to
"The Morning Post" says that in terri
tory recovered the latest success Of
the British army south of Ypres is the
biggest advance IL has made since
autumn, for IL has advanced FIVE kilo-
metres lover three miles) and OBJ
tanned position of the greatest tech
nical value.
The British have delivered another
telling blow upon German lines be-
tween KENNEL and Wulverghem. The
attack opened Sunday morning, when
the miners sprang q series Of mines of
exceptional strength. A part Of a hill
was entirely blown away and several
hundred Germans killed. The village
Of KENNEL is famous in Flanders for
its mountain, hill some 500 feet nigh,
but the only one in the country. There
was sharp fighting here on the 7th
and sth of this month, when the Ger
mans almost effected a surprise on the
British lines. After temporarily occu-
pying some of the British trenches
they were driven back with heavy
slaughter.
Germans Pushed Back.
The most recent phase of the fighting
Is, however, of quite another character.
Two kilometres were gained at this
point, and with the hill of KENNEL in
British hands an important step has
been taken iyr the great task OF swing
ing back the German right. The ight-
ing was quite as fierce as at Neuve
Chapelle. The British advance swept
on to point where there were no
trenches, and the troops were exposed
to a heavy fire while digging them
selves in.
1t was a case of breaking through the
German lines Of trenches 20 a point
considerably behind them. The ar
tillery, following up the work Of the
sappers, played havoc with the German
trenches, and, as at Neuve Chapelle, the
British infantry fell upon a foe utter
ly demoralized. The action is still in
progress, and the advance has been un-
checked. Eight hundred German prison.
ers have already come in, and every
thing points to greater losses for the
Germans than those at Neuve Chapelle.
The vigilance of the British aviators
in keeping off the German air scouts
accounts for the fact that General
French's troops were enabled to make
their preparations for attack without
any but the scantiest news OF their
movements leaking out.
A message 70 "The Daily Mail" from
Rotterdam says that all day Sunday
wounded were arriving at Bruges. and
it is stated that the Germans are pre-
pairing TO evacuate Menin, fourteen
miles southeast Of Ypres. In the
neighborhood of Ypres and Confines
the British captured several dominat-
ing positions.
The Germans have completely closed
the Dutch Belgian frontier to-day. On
previous occasions when these meas
ures have been taken important Ger
man movements have been in progress.
The British report of their capture
of Hill so, two miles south of lille
beke, in Belgium, is met with the Ger
man official statement that the British
have been driven out of the minor Ger
man positions which they had occupied
TO the southeast Of Ypres. This is in
the neighborhood of Hill so.
The British War Office statement OF
the advance east of Ypres says:
"A successful action commencing on
the evening of the 18th eliminated
last night in the capture and COM
plete occupation of an important point,
known as Hill so, which lies about two
miles south of Zillebeke, 10 the east of
Ypres. This hill dominates the coun-
try to the north and northwest.
"At daybreak on the 18th the enemy
delivered heavy counter attack
against this hill, but were re-
pulsed with a heavy loss. They ad-
vanced in close formation, and our ma
chine gun battery got well into them.
Germans Repulsed.
desperate efforts were made all day
yesterday by the Germans 70 recover
the hill, but they were everywhere re-
pulsed with great loss. In front of
the captured position, upon which we
are now consolidated in strength, hun
dreds of dead are lying"
To-day's French official bulletin an
nounced that the British yesterday
captured near Zwartalen, in Belgium,
200 yards of German trenches and re-
tanned them in spite of several counter
attacks
The forward movement Of the French
in the Vosges is thus described in their
official communique
"Our attacks, carried out on both
banks of the Fecht River. resulted in a
further advance by forcing the enemy
TO evacuate precipitately Eselbrucke,
above Metzeral, where he abandoned a
large amount of material"
The earlier report from the French
War Office SAYS:
1--WE have gained possession OF tho
summit of Burgkorpfeld. to the south
west of Schilleckerwassen, which dl-
rectly commands the valley On the
south bank, in the region of Schneefan-
rieth, we have made notable progress,
our troops marching from the south
to the north, in the direction Of the
Fecht and Metzerol, which is south
west of Colmar. In this district we
made an important gain with the oc-
cupation Of series of elevations. the
northernmost height of which COM
mands the course OF the Fecht in front
of Burgkorpfeld.
"Tn the course of this action we cap
tured division of mountain artillery,
two cannon of "a millinetres calibre
and two machine guns"