The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-30
(By Associated PressD

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY, April
30.-In front of the defending position
grey uniformed bodies lay in great
numbers today representing the awful
price paid by the Germans in their at
tacks.
This morning the allied line in Flan-
ders was to all intents the same as
when the Germans surged forward
yesterday.
At one time yesterday the Germans
appeared actually to have had some
,, men on the lower slope of both Mont
Rouge and the Scherpenberg after
they had succeeded in driving small
wedge into the French line between
these two elevations.
Things looked critical but the
French counter attacked determined
ly and re-established virtually all the
old position.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
| FRANCE, via Ottawa, April 30.-The
entente allied line has been advanced
between LaClytte and KENNEL. The
FrancoBritish forces also have made
some progress south Of that region.
Today's reports from the Flanders
battle front only serve to emphasize
the completeness of the victory won
by the Anglo-French forces yesterday
in withstanding the tremendous as
sault by which the Germans hope 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 de-
Gliding once more to make a 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 decision 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, it is esti-
mated, threw as many of IS divisions
or about 175,00O men, into the attack
on this twelve mile front, but despite
| continued furious assaults, was held
| almost in his tracks everywhere
In few points there was slight
| enemy penetration, but the line was
largely rectified late yesterday. Dur
ing 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 initial drives of the day.
French Retain Hold.
A most welcome feature of the cur
| rent news from the front is the an
nouncement that the French, in cru
cial part of the line at Locre, have
not lost any part of their hold on this
dominating ground.
They have now undisputed posses
f, sion of Locre itself for the first time
in several days and apparently have
| killed off all the enemy efforts TO
edge in around that place and force
its abandonment. The importance OF
| Locre lies in the fact that it guards
the approach to Mount Rouge. one Of
| the most valuable hills of the defen-
| sive line, which can not be taken in
/ flank as long as Locre remains In al
lied hands.
| Similarly the allied troops have
stopped the drive toward Scherpen-
berg by holding La Glytte while the
Belgians who had two additional Ger
man divisions to face north of Ypres
dealt with them successfully and pre-
vented any breach in the line toward
the sea.
Each Assault Thrown Back
| Against the British around Voorme-
zeele and the French in the region of
Locre, the Germans are making their
| heaviest strokes, but each assault has
| been thrown back brilliantly. Espe-
cially bitter is the fighting in and
| around the villages of Voormezeele
and Locre, which are still held by the
British and French.
| From the 12-mile front between
Bailleul and Zillebeke, the enemy has
extended his attacks to the north of
Ypres against the Belgians along the
Yser But he is meeting with no more
success here than elsewhere In Elan.
ders. the Belgians holding the Ger
mans from positions they had occu-
| pied by counter-attacks.
Ypres is yet to be attacked directly
from the east. but from the intensity
of the enemy assaults south and south
west it is evidently the German desire
most to take the hill positions west