The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-27
Whole Day of BOche Slaughter
Gains Him Nothing.
French Retake Village of LOcre
West of KENNEL.
ALLIES HIT BACK AT AMIENS
Germans Driven Out of Gains
in Picardy.
Ypres May Be Held Yet, Says
British General.

The loss of Mont KENNEL has evil
IDENTIFY failed to disorganize in any way
the allied resistance in the Ypres re-
gfon. The line. in fact, seems to have
stiffened. since this isolated height was
taken by the Germans, and the enemy.
after a day of desperate struggling
Yesterday. found himself held fast ev-
erywhere.
Locre. west of Mont KENNEL. and
Voormezeile, two miles south of
Ypres, were the chief points under at
tack by the Germans in their vain eff
fort to develop their success of the
previous day. At each. altho the
fighting fluctuated during the day, the
enemy failed to gain his detectives and
today is no further advanced toward
them than he was yesterday morning.
The French fought with great gal
lantry in the Locre sector, inflicting
severe losses on the enemy in his
fourth attack, the last of which car
ried him into the village. Last even
ing the French counter attacked Wig
orously and regained the place
British Fight Stubbornly.
The British were no less stubborn
in their defense of Voormezeele, at
which point they were obliged to hold
fast, if the line curving to the east
and mort around Ypres was not to be
abandoned. Today found them still
in possession of the village and hold
ing fast in the wood on the ridge
southwest of the town. Several hun
bred prisoners were taken by the Brit
ish in this fighting.
, q, There seems quite a general dispo-
= ton on the part of military obserV-
ers to forecast the eventual aban-
donmeut of Ypres salient as the re-
faI Of or ell
1t has been pointed out by the Brit
ish war office that this result will not
necessarily follow. 1t is likewise OBJ
served, however, that should an evac-
uation of Ypres become necessary,
the taking of Mont KENNEL has not
destroyed the defensive value of the
range of hills to the west, from which
il stood out and which have been re-
ferred to as the backbone of the
Flanders position. Meanwhile the
progress they have made without win
ming more than a tactical advantage
has been enormous.
Rctake Ground in Sommc.
on the Somme battle front the
situation has worked still more IN
favor IF the allies. The recapture OF
Villers- Rretonneux and it's dominat-
ing hign ground by the British has
made the German tenure of Hang&rd
To- the south extremely precarious ana
they have already lost part of the VII
Iage London reports a further ad-
vancement of the allied line last n1shs
in this sector. An attack by German
tanks was broken up by the British
fire. More than 900 prisoners wee
taken by the British in this fighting
May Yet Hold Ypres.
The fall of Mont KENNEL is a seri-
Gus blow to the security of the salient
about Ypres but to gain complete
victory there the Germans must strike
Asuickiy. This they are trying to do
While the allied troops resist strenu-
ously. While Kennels capture by
the enemy does not mean the imme-
date evacuation of Ypres, military
observers say, it does menace the
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