The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-04-20
WIN
IN FRANCE
\ AND ORIENT

eressed over a front OF nearly =
msIss 10 q depth OF from three-quaT
X e~ss q . mile TO four full miles.
n a score OF villages and town
!. have been taken since Monday whsi
.se great offensive started
ne German losses have leer
r'aGDsStns. ~
fvo complete divisiops--to.0o'
ne~--which made a counter attHes
- yuvinccurt we're ineraly wiped
~ ~ the French artillery alone
Do~orslisstion 10 spreading among
ne Germans among their OF
fcers.
Great masses OF reinforcement
hvr,sdly rushed to the line are un
svsiI,nr IN stopping the advance.
the battle IL progressing faVora'
sIy.- n the cain way in which the
yrruoA military chisfs regard nc
cRsasi,s. Tire results exceed the
crvsesatsons
rysuch officers rtgard the ad
vance between ostel and Cour'e.
camp as having reached the proper
tons Of a great snscess. The vt
most strategic Importance Il nj.
ssched 20 the formidable positions
cnptursd there.
succeeded In following the
Preach advancs In this battle OF
the SHOWS @ one nameless
hin southwest Of Moranvillers.
Trenches. dugouts. shelters every
where were alisd with German dead.
Based Cssrmsns were being hauled
from dnoouts wherc they had hid
dsa. burFowed deer in the piles OF
their own dead. Farther back
whore ppoach troops were cleaning
ths horgUso OF the ground taken By
Ne - pDrvsrd movement, ! had
eoeo 1ooo1, starving Germans stag
esg1nG eat of dugouts choked with
fhe1p g. comrades % hours aztec
theop auOputs had been taken BY
~ ysuoeA.
D10Qm1 the nsmeiess bill the new
p1rnon - German lines were yisi-
~ pefwesn them was an aban.
d1no1 German battery. stark ard
- = the snow. AS watched ]
90 - OF those marvellous bits u
- stsstssy executed.
kN~ ~k ~~t~ Ly&.h.A Isnaa 4,
~ Sung nom this abandoned bat
-. 7hey were plainly put there
- 1880 the enemy 10 seek q re
on0GUpo of the abandoned guns. The
rec - successful. AS watched,
Guk - Germans dashed. Their
nogoGo vuge hurrisdly hitched 10 the
onan11uo1 guns. Then the French
pnndA1nD gsns suddenly spat death.
1nnD--1en--Aii except 30 Ger
k veeo wiped cut In twink
= rDusals Of the French troops
~ 1un11ng. AZ 4 O'Clock wednes
0DNp1ng, found the same troops
- hsd seen capture the post
D1Rlnnv were In % Tuesday morn
- Ipns4ng fw frceh advance.
- vas to start at O'Clock
60 ~ French troops we're jokingly
= &nG II their Is o'clock tea"
~ typtcai Of all operations along
- 1voat French front that Gen
lDs b not seeking TO pierce the
o1uu1nn line ut a given point. In
oDon2 he proposes an advance along
- onktre front by steady stages.
! e 1T Eke the warfare OF the pre-
49, nonme campaign. How well
4 = warning out In evidenced by the
- at the French have advanced
nsss row, In This new style OF at
tnck. than a. any time since the bat
~ q tie Marne.
FROM another nameless hill TODAY
I saw across the Champagne plains
- sndless maze OF German
trsnehss. II represented three years
vork Of millions OF men. Countless
tons OF barbed wire. numberless car
leads Of steel plates. miles OF con
crete Notifications marked H. There
we're thousands of bomb proofs.
Many we're htted with electrical
plants equipped with the most costly
and most modern eonyenlences.
These the French captured intact.
Ths ardor Of their advance. the irrl.
sistible sweep following the batter.
ing down Of tia preliminary works
BY The tsrrfnc bail Of French Artil.
IsSy. drove the Germans out. Most
~ these pnsitions we're taken Tues
dsy.
hen the nghtine conferred In the
nhetms o. socplet sector. The
French advance was executed over
snow-clad ground which curiously
aided them. The Germans occupied
. crest Of hills 40 strongly fortified
that IN the plain below the French
haA heretofore not bern able 70 ad
yAaee since The battle of the harne
Dut the French shell BON rdment
Vas 90 destructive that 10 is min
utss after ieaping out ~ their
trenches. the French infantry had
oouupisd the German positions on
fsoat Of more than twothirds Of
mlle. advancing forward more than
q natIe and a third in an hour
Despite this terrific artillery sre.
The positions were so dotted with
machine guns that there was brisk
Aghting. The French settled down