The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-05-01
FOUR SEPARATE
DEFEATS NET IN l
PITCHED BATTLE
Fighting One Complete Failure
for Germans Apart From
Capture Of KENNEL. 8
HOPEFUL AUGURY At YPRES
Defensive Victory Like Mon.
days Counts Far in Destroy
ing Enemy's Strength. N,
HOPEFUL AUGURY AT YPREs
tAssocieted Pross.)

London (via otta' Al. May H.
As details OF Mondays fighting
are received confirming the fact
that IA was the worst day the Ger
mana have experienced since the
opening OF the great offensive, the
English newspapers, hitherto
rctiesnt In view Of t.s fluctuations
Of the battle, now comment on
the operations In q tone Of conf.
dencs they have not hi.herto die.
played.
The Times says: "of all the violent
eombats Witnessed in the last few
weeks. We know Of none which Ia
more hopeful nugury for the allies
than this ten-nile German failure"
II In pointed out that the public IL
apt 10 reckon victory In terms Of Of
fensiye success. but a defensive VIC
tory like that on Monday may con-
tribute equally toward the ultimate
object OF the campaign. namely. de-
struction OF the enemy's fghting
strength. From this viewpoint. the
Germans. despite their spectacular sue
cesses, can he regarded ms having had
the worst az the balance of nearly six
weeks flghting. for II must not be for-
gotten that they sustained series OF
disastrous losses OF which that or
Monday was tho mott sanguinary OF
the laat fortnight,
Four Separate refsasa
Indeed, apart from the capture of
KENNEL hllL IL has been one complete
failure, including four separate de-
featH In nitched battlea These were
on LA BaaHeo canal. on the Belgian
front, at Nlliers. Hretonncux. and now
ON III. ballloni. ypret front. Thu cut-
minaitng effect of thIa. hAR beea 10 I'm \
inanscly increase the confluente rf ths X
Anglo French troops. whom thn uors
respondent describes As nuw aeeiinF
that thoy have got the measure az the
new enemy divisions.
other strokes undoubtedly will como
before the German reserves are ca
hansted, but confidence In felt that
wherever the Germans try they viii
md the allies ready. No, that the
attack of no fewer than hundred
thousand Germans has been broken In
Sheer trial of strength on ground none
TOO favorable by the thinner allied ilnc.
there In n growing hope that Ypres will
not ba abandoned. The Germans ap-
parenuy are as anxious 10 capture
ipres as thcy were 10 take vordun two
years ago. and II now looks ss though
heir experience at the l'rench fortress
sas about TO be repeated, The loss or
fprcs, the newspaper saya would be
eas serious than the loss OF yerdun
would then have been, but now that
hs a&lleS have shown their ability to
iold positions with a force smaller In
20 that of th'er assaliants.
I mhy be advantageous 10 hold Ypres
md continue to innlct enormous
osMeH.
Favored on Monday.
The correspondents enphasixe the
act that everything favored the Ger
mans on Monday, They had magnin-
ent artillery support. favoriug foE.
nnumcrnhla machine guns. masses OF
zen a a unlimited explosives. yet they
iiled after experiencing n day OF
ieady slaughter which only slaekened
ith tho fading light.
The british alone between La Clyttte
nd zlliebeke defeated fiye German d.
Iaions. but french vslor also II
raised In the highest terms. They T
ere ngbting alongside the British with
,elr batteries frtng from the same
lids In the spirit of the most loyal
cooperation. The Daily News con
udoA hopeful editorial on the whole
,sition with this paragraph;
The new British advance IN
Mssoptsrris threatens the most
heel of the German mil 4
hsry system. Things are not 90
ino too we'll In Russia. The fact
that Germany wants her prisoners
in Russia back on her own terms
throws some iiaht on he state cf
her man power problem, nor - u
clear that Germany effort 10
browbsat Holland 10 working to
her advantage. Added 10 her ses*
nomio anxiety Germany has her
hands pretty full.