The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-05-03
HUNS Are MOVED
down IN Waves
Greatest Slaughter Since
War Began Is Dealt
Kaiserites
Is DIVISIONS USED
Immense Concentration On
Small Front Avails
Nothing. 1
is DIVISIONS USED

poHuentS WITH the BrlJlSn army agree
that the enemy yesterday suffered
nothing less than disastrous defeat.
1t was the first phase of the battle in
desperate attempts to capture the
line of hills held by the Allies which
endangered his possession of Mont
KENNEL. The Germans have prob
ably used thirteen divisions from the
east of Ypres southwark on the line
of battle, with two more northward,
and the violence of the gunfire was
never greater or more unceasing at
any period of the war, q
The successful Allied defense made
the day the bioodiest yet expert
enced by the enemy, as attack after
attack was smashed by artillery and
infantry fire. The Germans had al
ready suffered heavily on Sunday,
when their concentrations of troops
were caught and shattered by gunfire.
Their waves yesterday were moved
down and the British wings and
French center neither bent nor broke.
With The British Army, April 80.
In front of the defending positions
gray uniformed men lay in great
numbers to-day, representing the aw-
full price paid by the Germans in their
attack. This morning the Allied
lines in Flanders were to all intents
the same as when the Germans surg
ed forward yesterday.
At one time yesterday the Germans
appeared to have some men on the
lower slopes of both Mont Rouge and
Scherpenberg after they had succeed
ed in driving small wedge into the
French lines between these two ele-
vations. Things looked critical. but
the French counter attacked deter
minedly and re-established virtually
all the old positions.
Thus far the German capture of
KENNEL Hill has done them little
good, for the Entente Allied artillery
has kept the crest so smothered in
shellfire that it has been impossible
for the enemy to occupy it in force.
Fierce fighting continued about
Locre all of yesterday. The enemy
sacrificed a great number OF men. At
the ridge wood west of yoormezeele
also. heavy fighting continued
throughout the day and the number
of German casualties in that region
was great. 1t is impossible to say
how many attacks the enemy made In
the course of the day. They came
forward in waves throughout long
hours. i
To-day's report from the Flanders
battlefront only serves to emphasize
the completeness of the victory won
by the Anglo-French forces yesterday
in outstanding the tremendous as
sault by which the Germans hoped to
break into the Allied hill positions
southwest of Ypres and begin cutting
their way on toward the channel
ports.
The situation seems to have been
one OF the Entente high command
deciding once more to make stand
after having forced the Germans to
use up tens of thousands of men in
fighting their way desperately for
ward as far as they have. The deci-
sion made, the stand was taken, and
the Germans were stopped, as they
have been previously on other fields
since the great offensive opened on
March 21.
The enemy, 1t is estimated, threw
as many as thirteen divisions, or
about 175,O00 men into the attack on
this twelve-mile front, but despite
continued furious assaults was held
almost in his tracks everywhere. AT
few pDints there was slight enemy
penetration, but the line was largely
rectifed late yesterday During last
night the French, in dashing counter
blows, drove the Germans from the
remainder of the small stretches OF
ground they had gained in their in
itial drives of the day.