Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-04-29
TERRIFIC CONFLICT
RACES IN FLANDERS
GERMAN ATTACK UPON ALLIES
CONTINUES WITH UNDiMIN-
fsHED FURY.
AIM AT DUNKIRK AND CALAIS
Break Through to French Coast
Towns 10 Belief--Aiiies
Regain Canal Banks.

Berlin, April 27.-In the official
statement just given out II was an
nounced that more than 1000 Cana
dams had been captured In the fight
Ing around Ypres, Belgium. The state
nnsnt says:
1.-THE Germans hold Lixerns, on the
west bank Of the canal, which the
French pretend to have conquered. A.
% on the east Of the canal the con-
quered terrain remains in the posses
sion Of the Germans.
Northwest OF Zonnebake the Ger
man attacks continue. More than
1000 Canadians were taken prisoners
The total number Of prisoners rose tc
5000"
London, April 28.-The tremendous
battle begun by the German attack
upon the Allied arc-like front around
Ypres In the plains OF Flanders, con
tinues with undiminished fury and
England, like the rest of Europe, il
awaiting the outcome with undis
guised anxiety. Even the news that
the Allied fleet and army have com.
menced an attack on the Dardanelles
and that troops are advancing against
the Turkish entrenchment, which q
few days ago would have aroused i'm
mense enthusiasm, has received only
passing attention i'm the face OF the
stakes that are In the balance in the
battle which is being fought beyond
.ae English channel.
Germans Aim at Dunkirk.
While the majority Of those capable
OF forming an opinion believe that
the Germans, by the stroke they have
delivered against the British, French
and Belgians are once again aiming
at Dunkirk and Calais, there are others
who believe that 1t Is only feint in
force to draw the Allies reserves
while preparations are being made for
an attack at some other point In the
long line.
Whatever are the intentions of the
Germans, they certainly made sue
cessful coup which, while it did not
break, did dent the Allies line. The
Canadians. who were holding the Brit
ish portion of the line, were the first
to recover themselves and in a coun
ter-attack, the praises of which are
ringing throughout the empire, recap
tured the ground they had been com
PEELED to give up and since then with
their comrades have successfully with
stood the German assaults.
Allies Regain Canal Banks.
The French and Ralpjans who ra
ceived the blast in fuller force ant
were driven back across the canal be
tween Boesinghe and Steenstraate
were not much slower in recovering
and according to the French official re
ports succeeded in regaining posses
sion Of the canal banks and much o.
the surrendered territory to the east
There is no inclination here, how
ever, to helittle the initial successes
the German sweep and the work tha
Is before the Allied armies before the
situation can be fully restored.
A writer in the Pall-Mall Gazette de
scribes it as "a mastery tactica
counterstroke," and declares that Il
the Germans have waited long to talk,
their revenge for Neuve Chapelle. the,
have taken 1t now"
BY getting across the canal, it il.
pointed out that the Germans gainet
for the moment command of new road.
and ii they had not been driven bacl
would have forced a readjustment o
the whole Allied line in the region o
Ypres.