The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-04-30
SECOND GERMAN DRIVE
TOWARD CALAIS STOPPED
Allies Claim Success i'm Battle
With Germans i'm Flanders.
FIGHTING IN THE EAST.
"''ieS I'm the Carpathians and on
the East Prussian Front-Noth-
ing From German Fleet


nave definitely stopped the German
attack"
Field Marshal Sir John French
commander-in-chie of the British
forces on the Continent. thus an
nouhces the conclusion of another
German attempt to break through
the allied lines around Yprcs and
along the User canal which brougb.
about one OF the most sanguinarv
battles of the war
This, however, only brings IN an
END the first phase of the battle FOR
the allies have yet TO win back the
ground lost in the great German
sweep For this purpose thev are
now delivering counter attacks
against the German lines. Only at
one place-Steenstraa tho
Germans kept their footing on the
western bank of the canal. while To
me north of Ypres the positions re-
main much as they were. the allies
making no claims to an advance
there, and the Germans reporting
that all the British attacks have
been repulsed
10 mold these lines the Germans
nave brought up farther reinforce
ments and Belgium, behind tbom
has been denuded of troops The
towns and villages in Belgium are
being guarded by only a handful! of
seirries.
Fighting also continues in Cham
pagne, where the Germans claim tba
capture of strong French position
in the Argonne and the Woevre.
where the French say they are pro-
crossing and in the Vosges, where
ooth sides claim to be in possession
OF Hartmans-Weilerkop 1t is prob-
able that this mountain. which COM
mands the plains o, Alsace, has
changed hands several times. .his
would account for the contradictory
reports
The Russians and Austro- G e-nans
are heavily engaged in the region Of
Izsok Pass, in the Carpathiars. and
m the direction of Stry, where an
attempt is being made to strike at
the Russian communications.
Berlin correspondents give ths
Austrlans credit for the capture OF a
lumber of important heights near
! Uzsok Pass and also assert that they
nave driven the Russians out of
Bukowina. But this is not backed
UP by the. austrian official report.
which says that in Buxowina no i'm
l"7fant event has occurred
There has been renewal of ac-
tivity on the East Prussian front.
where the Germans report minor
successes for their troops.
A sensational report that 5000
OF the allies troops have been driven
to the sea on the Gallipoli peninsula
and that 1000 were CAPTURED also
comes from Berlin but has no con-
hrmatlon from other sources. 1t is
expected that the operations against
the Dardanelles will proceed SLOWLY.
as the Turks are strongly entrenched
and their wire entanglements and
trenches will have to be shelled
heavily before the troops can make
any serious attempt to advance.
The French have lost the cruiser
Leon Gambetta. which was torpedoed
by the Austrian submarine Us while
leaving the Adriatic sea for Malta
Only a small part of her crew were
saved, all the officers, including an
admiral, being drowned.
reports as to the intention of
'taly are as varied as they are nu-
merous. but the Italian embassy at
London has authorized the statement
that nothing is known there of any
impending change in the Italian
| policy.
Nothing further has been heard of
the German feet in the North Sea.
md IL is contended In official quar-
,ers here that 1t never left the mine
elds OFF Helgoland. In the Baltic.
however, German warships are busy
I'd have stopped a number OF
swedish steamers carrying coal from
English ports to Sweden.