Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-04-25
Sudden Attack North Of Hill No. go
Forces French and Belgians
Back to User Canal.
COUNTER ATTACKS INITIATED
Germans Are Forced by Quick Ad-
vance Of Allies to Give Up Most
of Ground Occupied.
HARDEST FIGHT FOR MONTHS
The Days War NetOs

4 SERIES OF GERMAN successes
along the western front r. an
nounccd In todRy's official report
from Berlin. The French war Of
flee report gives n different ver-
sion of the situation IN Belgium.
ADVANCE OF THE GERMANS is
ascribed by the French war office
60 the use of bombs develoDinE
gas, which asph yxinted the men
I'm the trenches.
FREIGHTER RUTH has been sunk
in the North SEQ by n German sub
marine. Its crew of sixteen was
saved.
FINNISH STEAMER Track haa
been sunk in the Baltic sea by
German submarine. The crew Is
believed 10 have been saved.
NEW RATTLE IN BELGIUM, which
has developed suddenly into one
of the most important encounters
In the west since the present bat
tie line was formed, ia being car
ried on by n relentless German at
tack and n determined resistance
on the part OF the British.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT from the
British war office says that the
British troops are still fighting
for the ground which they were
compelled 90 yield tG' the Germans,
The loss OF these positions exposed
the Canadian division, which WINS
compelled 10 fall back. The Ca
nndtans lost four pieces OF artII-
iery, but later Fecaptured them,
AVIATORS OF THE ALLIES opernt-
Ing over smyrna report that the
Turks are defending the city with
oo'OOOO troops established In
~enches. A German steamer wa.
sunk and two men in q TurItish
Fort were killed by bombn dropped
from the aeropIanes.
LONDON, April 24.--Over an arc.
like front in Belgian Flanders. which
is roughly ten miles long from the
region Of Bixschoote. in the north. To
st. Eloi, in ths south French. Brit
ish and Belgian troops are locked
with the Germans today in series
OF engagements which recall the
fighting Of last October.
Driven from Hill No. go In the
south OF Ypres. and failing to retaka
1t by counter attack, the Germans
launched sudden advance northeass
OF the town aud after supplying ana
killing men in the first trenches with
deadly gases, according to British
official reports, they drove wedge Of
infantry forward, forcing the French
and Belgians back toward, ana a,
some points apparently across. the
User (Ypres) canal a maneuves
which at the same time compelled
the British line north Of Ypres to fall
back to conform with the French.
Although the advance OF the German.
was considerable, extending, according Ia
Berlin dispatches over a front Of fivo
miles, French. Belgian and British foYcea
the French occupying the canter. tha
Belgians the left and the British ths
right Of the line--immediately initiated =
| counter attack. the result OF which wa
TO compel the Germans to give up sorne
OF the ground they had taken ana forcs
them In northeasterly direction toward
Langemarck, from which place the at.
tack started.
Some OF the London newspapers today
characterize this German rush an anothes
attempt TO break through to Calais, and
some estimates say they have s0o.0o0 men
available for this effort
BY this time the British are presumably
well strengthened and have consolidated
the attention on Hill No. 60. The hard
est fighting. consequently. is expected
north OF Ypres.
Just as the Germans have been bat
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