The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1917-04-19
BRITISH GUNS TOO MUCH.
Germans Lose Grounds; Try to Re-
gain Losses; Fail.

The Germans. with very large
forces, Sunday attacked the British
along the Bapaume-Cambrai road
over a front of six miles and, fighting
desperately, succeeded in gaining a
foothold in the village of Lagnicourt,
which lies southwest of Queant, po-
sition of great strategic importance
in the German line. Everywhere
else along the British front the Ger
mans were repulsed according to the
Official report from Field Marshal Sir
Douglas Haig, and their success at
Lagnicourt was not for long, as a
powerful British counter-attack
drove them out. Three hundred Ger
mans were made prisoner and 1900
German dead were counted in front
of the British positions.
On Outskirts of Lens.
While unofficial reports say Brit
ish patrols entered the town of Lens
tonight, the British official communi-
cation merely says the British now
are approaching the outskirts of the
town, having captured German de-
fenses from Rieumont wood to the
eastern corner of Cite St. Pierre and
also east of LEVIN.
Ground was gained Sunday by the
British north of St. Quentin.
The French are violently lombard
ing the sector of St. Quentin and are
being answered spiritedly by the Ger
mans. The artillery duel continues
unabated in Champagne. Two at
tacks by the Germans on the right
bank of the Meuse, in the Verdun
sector, were repulsed by the French.
Another Retreat?
What may be indicative of an in
tention on the part of the Germans to
fall back on the northern front in
Belgium is the fact that the Belgian
troops have penetrated into the town
of Dixmude as far as the German Sec
~ond lines and found them unoccu-
pied. Over the entire Belgian front
for days there have been violent ar
tillery bombardments and before the
advance on Dixmude the German po-
sitions were heavily shelled.
Air Battles.
Fighting in the air continues in
tense. Berlin tells of the loss by
1.-The French, British and Americans
of seventeen aeroplanes. Sunday
four German aeroplanes were brought
down by British fliers and eleven
others were driven down. Ten Brit
ish machines failed to return to their
base.
The Paris war Office reports that
French aviators in the last three days
of the last week accounted for tWen-
ty-five German aeroplanes and a cap
tive balloon.
American Losses.
The mention of "American' aero
planes as having been lost would in
dicate that the members of the La
fayette Corps have carried out their
intention to float the American flag
from their machines over the battle
line in France.
Little fighting of moment is report
ed from any of the other fronts IN
Macedonia the sector of the Cerna
river bend and Lake Presba has been
the scene of Teutonic allied attack
against Italian positions. The at
tackers were forced to withdraw un-
der the heavy fusillade. Albanlans
and Austrians had the worst OF sklr-
mishes with French troops west OF
KoritZa.
President Wilson had addressed a
personal appeal to the American peo-
ple. calling upon man, woman ana
child to strive to make the nation a
union for the preservation OF It's
ideals and for the triumph OF the
democracy of the world.