White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-04-20
GREAT BATTLE ON
SIX MILE FRONT
TEUToNs LEAVE 1900 DEAD WHEN
REFUSED IN COUNTER At
TACK ON LAGNIcoURT.
AMERICAN FLAG IN FRANCE
Marshal Raie Aims at Outer Works
Of Lille, the Key to Enemy's Po-
sition in FIanders-WeatEer
Bad on italian Line.

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large forces, on Sunday attacked the
British along the Bapaume-C Cambria
road over front of six miles, and
fighting desperately, succeeded TEN.
porarily in gaining foothold in the
village of Lagnicourt, which lies south
west of Queant, position of great
strategic Importance in the German
line. Everywhere else the Germans
were repulsed, according to the Off
cial report from Field Marshal Sir
Douglas Haig, and their success al
Lagnicourt as not for long, .as a pow
erful British counter attack drove
them out Three hundred Germans
were made prisoner and $500 German
dead were counted in front of the Brit.
ish positions.
Unofficial reports say British patrols
entered the town of Lens. Ground was
gained Sunday by the British north
west of st. Quentin.
The French are violently lombard.
ing the sector of ST. Quentin and are
answered sl';r't eddy by the Germans
The artille., ,t;el continues unabated
on the Champa 5ne. Two German at
tacks on the right bank of the Mouse
in the Verdun sector were repulsed
by the French.
What may be Indicative of an inten.
ton by the Germans to fall back on
the northern front in Belgium is the
fact that the Belgian troops have pen
etrated into Dixmude as far as the
German second lines and found them
unoccupied Over the entire Belgian
front for days there have been violent
artillery bombardments and before the
advance on Dixmude the German posi-
lions were heavily shelled as a prep
aration for the maneuyer of the Bel
gians
american AirpIanes" Lost.
Fighting between German and
French and British aviators continues
intense. Berlin tells of the loss by "the
French, British and Americans" of II
airplanes. Sunday four German air.
planes were brought down by the
British filters and II others were driv.
en- down. Ten British machines failed
to return to their base.
PARIS reports Frsl I'll -aa, sisa YRS in the
last three days of the week accounted
for 25 German airplanes and captive
airmen have Carried out notable bonn
ing exploits on German positions be
hind the lines.
The mention of American airplanes
as having been lost would indicate
that the members of the Lafayette
squadilla have carried cut their inten
ton to float the American flag from
their machines over the battle line il
France.
Italians Using Artillery.
Artillery commandments are in prog
ress in the Austrian-Italian theatel
despite bad weather.
In Macedonia the sector of the Ger
ma river bend and Lake Presba has
been the scene of Teutonic allied at
tack against Italian positions. The at
tackers were forced to withdraw un
der the heavy fusilade. Albanians AND
Austrians had the worst of skirmishes
with French troops west Of Koritza.
French Troops Winning.
The French troops in the depart
ments of the Aisne and the Marine
have delivered violent infantry at
tack against the Germans over {
front of rs miles and made import
ant gains of terrain and captured
more than 10000 prisoners and large
quantities of war material.
counter-Attacks RepuIsed.
The battle took place between Sois
sons and Rheims and over a distance
of 1917 miles, from scissors to era
onne, the entire German first-line pc
sitions fell into the hands of Genera
Nivelle's forces, while east of Craon
ne a German second line position
south of Juvincourt and another pc
sition on the outskirts of Bermeri
court running along the AisEe cana
to Louvre and Courcy also were cap
tured. Violent counter-attacks by the
Germans on several sectors were re
pulsed with heavy casualties to thu
attackers.
The artillery for several days hat
been violently Smelling the entire re
gion and Monday, while British &C
tivity along the front from Lens tt
st. Quentin had almost ceased owing
to a heavy rainfall, the French rush
ed their infantry in an endeavor tc
break through or press back the Ger
mans from the point of great strategic
value.