The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-20
BATTERHD0WN
TEUTON line
by F|ERCE[Y
DRIVEN BLOW
Whole Of Won Hindenburg's POSI-
ton From Lens TO the Foot
Hills Of the Aruonne Hills Is
Now Menaced BY Allied Drive
CONCERTED ATTACKS or
ENTENTE ARE SUCCEEDING


Their PoiIu Comrades Smash
Flat the Resistance Of the
Teutonic Invaders Of France
ASSOCIATED Press BY Commercial Cable
II ONDON, April 10 "The
~ greatest victory since the
victory Of the Marnc,' is the way
that dispatches from the French
front describe the tremendous Of
fcnsive which the troops under
the command Of General Neville
are hurting against the German
lines in the Champagne country.
~Nivelle is stride and partly
around Won Hindenburg's line" is
the gist Of another despatch from
the 'front.' which definitely settles
the talk Of a great German trap
in which the Allies were to have
been hopclessIy crushed as was
the Russian army after. the Bat
tie Of The. Lakes. This despatch
adds that thousands Of prisoners
have been taken"
The Official dispatches Of last
night declared that the French Of
fensive continued "unabated de-
spite the storm Of rain and snow
that are beating upon the Cham
payne country, and making the
fighting difficult
Further important. gains were
officially reported by the French
communicates issued from Paris
last night. and the menace to the
whole of the German lines from
Lens to scissors, which has been
growing for several days has now
extended to the foot hills Of the
Argonne.
In half a dozen alifferent sectors the
German lines were shattered and their
holders killed, captured OF flung back
by the elan of the French attackers,
backed ms II was by the tremendous
artillery bombardment of the French
gunners. Yet the Germans struggled
desperately to hold their positions At
Carnilette they counter attacked hot
ly, but in vain, and the French report
the capture Of twenty five hundred adj
ditional prisoners In that sector as the
result of the abortive effort.
In the neighborhOod Of Morovillers
the entire first line Of the Teuton po-
sition over a width Of more than nine
miles was driven in and consolidated
by the attacking French troops, and
east and southeast of Auberive, where
q Teuton bhstion had thrust itself into
the French lines for two and half
years, the poilus rushed the positions
of their foes along front eight miles
wide and despite the fact that the
salient had been powerfully fortified
by the Germans, thrust the foe out,
capturing thousands of prisoners in
the salient that was more than two
miles across at the base.
All told the total of the German
prisoners taken by the French often
siye during the last two days, Monday
and Tuesday, number more than thir.
teen thousand.
Farther to the west, in the country
between the Disc river and the French
salient that apexes at Condo SUI
Asine, or a distance of approximately
thirty-five miles tho French artillery
has been pouring in the fiercest Of ar
tillery fires, SO hot that the German
general staff announces that it is Gun,
parallelcd in intensity,
North of Saint Quentin the British
are keeping up their steady drive and
yesterday advanced considerably il
several sectors. East Of the little
town Of Epehy, which is on the old
railroad between Saint Quentin and
Cambria the men under Sir Douglas
Haig had yesterday won forward. III
speaking Of this fighting and the
French offensive Bonar Law, Chancel
Tor Of the Exchequer told the house OF
commons that the I" Allies are engaged
in the greatest operation of the war
and that their success is exceeding al
anticipations y
This statement followed his NOV,
70 pass the second reading Of the bill
extending the session of parliament un
I'll next November. This Is being op
posed by the Irish nationalist.
The Berlin dispatches report TIL
German General STAFF as announcing u
the German peODle that Uona 80 al
greatest battles Of the mighty wal
and therefore one Of the greatest {
the history Of the world Is now In prc
gress on the river Asine. ,"