The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-05-01
French and British Working
Hdrmon;ously Against Germans

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BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE (via London, April nc, from
stan correspondent Of the Associated
Press with the hot flames Of war
raging along the entire western front,
British and French alike, it can be
stated that each detail Of the offen-
Sire plans has been worked out at
prolonged conferences between General
NitelIs and Field Marshal IIaig and
the war councils Of France and Eng.
mnd.
The part to be played by each
belligerent has been definitely agreed
upon, and D schedule has been arranged
as for one great cohesive force. Yari-
Gus tasks have been precisely allotted
along the wide.reaching battle lines,
and the results thus far attained Justify
the conclusion that the supreme mill
tary test Of the war Is near at hand.
1t was planned that the British
should strike from Arfas while the
French guns still were roaring their
preparation for infantry hostilities
along a wide front farther to the
south.
The successes gained In the first
stages OF the British advance have
given the French great confidence In
the inauguration Of their own enter-
prises.
The whole struggle in the western
th6ater promises to be titanic one.
The Allies are prepared as never before
both in material and personnel and are
cooperating with a smoothness which
comes from complete understanding
and thorough appreciation Of the work
IN hand. Ine Germans have more divi-
stems on the western front than would
have been thought possible a year ago,
and however much Of an easternerv
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg may
have been in the past, he will have TO-
devote his entire time and attention TO
western events for some weeks to come.
Already half score Of Germanyis
hest divisions have been smashed To-
pieces by the British onslaught and
their own unsuccessful eounter-attacls.
The Bavarian divisions were SACRIFICED
first, but the Prussian guard divisions
thrown in to stem the British flood tide.
have been suffering such casualties in
the last few days that they will have to
l.
The Canadians accounted for a large
contingent Of grenadiers in the lighting
about the Pimpie, while yesterday's az
fair at Iagnicourt took its heaviest toll
both in dead and prisoners from five
German regiments.
II will ever be one Of the most strik-
ing pictures Of this war, the rout of
the Germans at Lagnic0urt after what
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attack.
Running for their own trenches,
which were part of the famed linden
burg line, they were trapped by tho
bnrbed wire entangiements which had
been built with such great strength and
thickness in front Of them. The boast
Of the Hindenburg line has been It's belt
of protective wire.
Caught within the meshes of tliis
wire, the German guardsmen screamed
nladly for help and Guidance. Some,
like trapped rabbits, seurried up aud
down the outer barrier, searching in.
vain for openings. The British troops,
meantime, had the greatest Opportunity
for open field rifle shooting since the
battle of the Marne Lying flat upon
the ground, they poured bullets into the
panic stricken gray-eoated Germans un-
Ill each man had fired a full 100 rounds.
While this was going on, the British
field guns came into play with shrapf
mel banage, which completed the demo-
lition Of the entrapped enemy.
II was little wonder that later 1900
German dead could be counted o. that
400 guardsmen surrendered with upheld
hands aud emotional cries Of "Kaui-
eradlD
German efforts 10 dig IN everywhere
and seek the shelter Of strongly forth