The sun., 1917-05-10
TEUTON GRIP ON
FRESN0Y WEAK
Canadians Fight Their Way
to Edge of Village. Now
Under Heavy Fire.
FRENCH WIN TRENCHES
Are Successful in Two Attacks
Northeast and Northwest
of Rheims.

IoNpoN. May 9.-The Canadians have
not yet won their way back into the
village Of Fresnoy which Bavarian
troops took from them yesterday, but
they have pushed to its outskirts and
their guns are pounding the village to
bits in preparation for another attack.
Canadian and otner British troops
counter attacked the Bavarians last
n!ght and carly to-day and there vas
desperate fighting. When 1t ended the
British had regained all the lost ground
west OF the village. but had stopped just
short of recapturing Fresnoy. Dispatches
from the front say the Germans are
barely holding the village proper.
German troops north of Fresnoy were
prepa ring to attack the Canadian troops
holding the line north of the village
British observers saw them massing in
their assembly trenches and the artillery
vas trained on them The Germans did
not attack.
RuIlrcOurt Is BOO,ba rded.
The only other lighting Of the day WAS
At Bu,,ccourt and Gavrclic. The icr-
mans bombartled Bu!!ccourt last night
and made small attack today. ou, We're
heaten back The British are continuing
heir work of cleaning out small Ger
man posts IN the village. but ne.tner
army has full possession OF II. AZ ''-
yrelle German attacks failed'
Irepcl, troops made an excellent rec
ord for the day. capturing German
trenches on frontaSe tota'lihs nea'H
a mile In two separate regions, an" .an
~ al, told 800 prisoners. Besides these
.chievements in ATTACK tncy "e">
through hard ordeal of German eou'''
ter attacks witn complete sutee
rio larger OF the French attacks was
made last evening northeast OF 'ua' ~
rranx which is northeast of Rheims me
Erench took first line German ucnSn'' y
on a front of two-thirds or ~.
sueeping down the slope 10 tne !N"Is =.
valley, and also protecting 'neir
aank for an attack near JuNhcou.. ~ w.
the low ground by which Lao" N'"'
reached from the southeast
roun,cr Attacks Repeated.
\,ve,,e's troops threatened the village
a, Cheyreaux. which the Germans n's1
renorted they had lost. then sara lnes
still held. after the big FTench o"c",.
last week Anxious to hoid 'he'I 70
footing on the ridge in TINS resto,'' w.
Germans made repeated counter a..". ',,,
bu, the French had already organizes
,ha o,ntured ground and beat of al!
efforts .
The second French attack was car
r,ed out northwest of Rheims. ana ,'er
man trenches were stormed on IL Io'''
Of about a quarter OF mile Inc He'
man positions were held in strength as
is shown by the fact that among .ne
hundred prisoners taken were men i'o''
four different regiments
During the night there was furious
fighting all along the thirty miles or the
Chcmin des Danes ridge, Wnere 'he
Germans were making further attempts
10 regain valuable positions They Were
no mere local attacks. but were MADE
by large forces and preceded by violent
hombardments. The Germans were re-
pulsed everywhere, especially near era
oune, where for a moment they got
footing but were driven back by tnt
French bayonets, leaving many dead.
The Omclal Reports.
Our positions were maintained every
where and we tosk prisoners says I'M
French statement. The official state
ments follow:
British Night Statement-There was
local fighting during the day in the
neghborhood of Bullecourt in the
course Of which a party of tho enemy
while attempting to advance to tine
attack across the open was caught
by our machine gunfire and suffered
heavy casualties.
There has been considerable artil-
l~ry activity on both sides at interval ls
during the day northwest of st. Quen-
tin, and in the ncighborhood Of Bulle-
court. WancouYt and ArleuN.
British Day Statement-Last night
our troops advanced their position
slightly northeast of Hargicourt
Yesterday evening the enemy at
tackled our positions northeast OF Cav
relle village The attack was broken
up by our barrage and machine gun
FIRE and completely repused
At the same time hostile forces con-
centrating for an attack north Of FreS-
uoy were dispersed by our artillery
FIRE.
British RcRnin Ground.
West of Tresnoy We improved our
position during the night by a counter
attack. portion of the ground lost
yesterday morning has been regained
Early this morning an enemy raid
'ng party was driven off east OF Ar
n1entares.
French Night Statement South OF
the Oise our artillery carried out ff'
fective fires on tho organizations and
batteries Of the Germans in the St
Gobain forest.
o. the Chemn des Danes there was
spirited artillery activity. ON th'
erny-Iurtebise front. In the region o.
''hevreauX. our troops have ORGANIZED
nc conquered ground and repulsct
several enemy counter attacks Tit
humber of prisoners made In tn
the course Of yesterdays action hai
reached 200.
TO tho northwest Of Rheims We car
red out detailed operation which en-
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