The Elbert County tribune., 1917-04-20
RESISTANCE OF TEUTONS SHAT.
TERED BY CRUSHING FORCE
OF THE FRENCH ATTACK.
KAISER LOSES 100000
GERMAN U-BoAT BEGINS RAIDS
ON AMERICAN PORTS BY FIR
ING ON U, s.. DESTROYER.


therefore also in worlds history"
says the official statement Tuesday
by the German army headquarters
staff, sis in progress on the river
Aisne."
Washington, April 1S.-This an
nouncement was made at the Navy
Department: Reported from Fire ISL
and lightship to the naval stations at
Boston and New York at 80 a. m.
on the 18th an enemy submarine was
sighted. Submarine fired torpedo at
the u S. S. Smith, which missed her
by 80 yards. Submarine disappeared"
Headquarters of the French Army
on the French Front, April 1S.-Not
only did the French army get astride
and partly around the so-called Hin
denburg line" yesterday but in so do
ing they captured many thousands of
German prisoners. After one of the
most intensive artillery lombard
ments of the war, the French ad-
yanced along another 25-mile front.
Shells were poured into the German
positions and from north of Soissons
to just west of Rheims the French in
fantry started the work for which they
had been patiently waiting. The total
German losses were estimated at 100.
600 killed, wounded and captured.
The Germans opposed the advance
with their utmost power, bringing into
play thousands of cannon and ma
chine guns, which had been emplaced
in the most advantageous positions.
Nothing, however, could withstand
the gallantry and skill of the French
whose ardor was strengthened by the
sight of the desolation through which
they passed.
There was no hesitation among the
French soldiers when the order to ad
vance was given, but they did not
throw their lives away There was no
hurry; every movement was executed
as if on parade.
Advantage was taken of every inch
of cover, and thus the infantry were
able to approach up the sloping
ground until within striking distance
of the numerous entrances to the tun-
nels; then they encircled the whole
plateau and left sufficient men around
to prevent the garrison's retreat or its
communication with the main body of
Germans. It's fate was then scaled.
Meanwhile the bulk of the French
troops continued their advance both
here and on other parts of the line.
Telephone reports from various
sectors told of the successes, some
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different corps engaged.
Everywhere behind the advancing
French, groups of German prisoners
were to be seen on their way to cap
tivity. Before evening more than 10,-
900 had been counted and others were
I arriving. Some of the prisoners told
of exceedingly severe lossess their
companies being reduced in several
cases from $50 to eighty men or there
abou.s All seemed pleased over their
capture. some of them saying that
there would be many desertions ex-
cept for the constant vigilance of
their superiors, as most OF them were
tired of the war.
London, April 1S.-A dispatch to the
Daily Express from Amsterdam says
sensational rumors are current on the
Amsterdam bourse to the effect that
the Anglo-French victories on the
western front, coupled with the Ber-
lin strike of munition workers, are
about to cause a most dramatic move
in German public opinion.
large contingent of grenadiers in the
fighting. while the affair at Lagni-
court took its heaviest toll both in
dead and prisoners from five German
regiments.
1t will ever be one of the inost strik-
ing pictures of this war, the rout of
the Germans at Lagnicourt, after
What they believed to have been a sue
cessful attack.
Turks driven back farther by Brit
ish in Mesopotamia.
Teutons repulseG in attack on al
lied position in Cerna region of Mace
donia.
British and French air pilots drop
many bombs on German city OF Ere
burg
powerful counter assault launched
against the newly-formed British line
converging on st. Quentin and Lens
Monday gained the Germans foot
hold in the village. of Lagnicourt, ac-
cording to word received from Gen
Haig's headquarters in France.
Seventeen British. French, Ameri-
can" airplanes destroyed by Germans.
The Turks have sustained another
defeat at the hands of the British in
Mesopotamia. The war office an
nounces that the Turks are in retreat