Evening star., 1915-04-23
ENGLISH STILL CLING
TO IMPORTANT POINT
City of Ypres Again Target for
Seventeen-Inch Shells
Used in Battle.
PELGIANs REPULsE GERMANS
French Claim to Have Captured
Many Trenches From the Foe.
Asphyxiating Bombs Being
Used. It Is Charged.

LONDON. April 2,,.-The Brit
l>h forces have shown no dispo-
sitlon under the repeated rushes
OF the Germans to relax their grip
on hill No. 90, near Ypres. and
the fighting in this locality today
shows signs OF developing along
the wide front with increasing
intensity. even rivaling the at
tempts OF the Germans to break
through the British lines last fall.
Losses on both sides already are
heavy.
The city OF Ipres. whose his
torlc structures were shattered
by German projectiles last Octo-
ber, again is the target OF heavy
shells. Huge seventeen-inch mis-
>lles are now being used. and UNI
less the civilian population has
fled or is taking to its cellars. the
losses among the people must be
heavy.
German Attacks Repulsed.
There was given out in London this
morning the regular semi-weekly re.
port on conditions at the front Ii il
dated April 81 and reads:
The German attacks on hill No. SO.
which had stopped at the time of is
suing the report of last Monday, have
been renewed several times. These at
tacks all failed. We hold the entire
crest of the hill and So deny its use to
the enemy, who have attached great
Importance to il.
There is not. and there never has
been. any truth in the German official
communication that the enemy had re-
captured this position. During the op-
erations around hill No. 60 the enemy
fired shells seventeen inches in diam
eter into the town of fpres.
Two Mines Exploded.
April Il. in the neighborhood of la
Eassee the enemy exploded two mines
opposite our right. They failed to
damage our trenches. Having discovered
German mining operations in the neigh
borhood of lie Touquet. near Armen-
there's We foreStalled their effort thus
morning by exploding mine Whlch
had prepared there
April 10 one of our airmen carried
out a very bold and successful Slngie-
handed attack on an alrship shed near
Ghent. He had to run gantiet oil hre
from the ground. directed by captive
balloon in order to attack his obIec-
tive In spite of this he came down TO
within zoo feet of the ground and ef-
fected his object. causing i serious eK-
plosion in the sheu
Belgians Inflict Losses.
Successful operations for all of tho
allied armies fighting in the western
arena are claimed by Paris today in its
oaici,l statement In addition to
British and French forces making ad-
vances and repulsing the enemy at sew
eral points. the Belgian army has again
been brought into the h2htlng by an
attack from the Germans to the nortn
of Dixmude. where 1t is declared the
kaiser's men We're thrown back with
great losses.
Germans now are employing asphyx-
iating bombs with marked regularity.
according to the French statement, all
though Berlin declares that there is no
ground for this statement, and ma keS
the counter charge that their use has
been general among the allied armies
The French declare that to the north
of Ypres their men were forced to re-
tire considera bly, because of the deadly
fumes from German shells.
French Gain Trenches.
Near Langemarck the British have
repulsed two attacks In the wooded
valley near St Mihiel the French have
taken an additional 100 meters of
trenches and made 100 prisoners. ac-
cording to Paris. Two lines of trenches
We're gained at place called tho
COWS Head" which is in the forest of
near ST Mihiel large
number of German dead were left on
the ground. it is declared.
In Alsace, French forces claim TO
have made considerable progress ON
both banks of the Fecht river. Ground
is being gained to the east in the di-
rection of Metzeral.
Russians Repulse Foe.
The Russians are. according to their
a accounts, repulsing repeated Austrian
attacks on their positions to the south
east of Lupkos pass. in the Carpa-
thians. and are holding their own
against the Austro German efforts on
heir fianks, near Gorlice, in western
.,alicia. and Stry, in the eastern part
Of the same province. These ATTACKS
are being made with the
,bi iect of holding the Russians where
they are while the Germans are pre-
pairing to strike at the Russin lines at
some other point. possibly from the
direction of Cracow
Airships Are Active.
Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd
says:
..There was much activity yesterday
nm the part of the Russian airships
One dropped fifteen bombs on Flock.
Several German boats on the Nistula
were struck as were the railroad sta
:.Two other machines bombarded the
railway station at Mlawa and the Ger
nan aerodrome al Sanniky. Considera-
Die damage was done TO German
trenches"