Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-27
.YPRES SECTOR ENDANGERED BY
 HUNS ADVANCE
Kemmel Hill, Key to Southern Side of Salient, Must Be Retaken by Allies to Retain Present Lines.
OBy Review Leassd Wire,

Enemy counter attacks against Mont Kemmel and in the fighting area south. of Villers-Bretonneux failed with [ heavy losses says the official state ment issued by the war office tonight. The German communication issued today says:
 'The attack by General Von Arnim's army against Mont Kemmel led to a complete success. The height itself looking far into the Flander plain i5 in our possession.
 ~The French divisions entrusted, within the radius of the British troops with the defense of Mont Kemmel and English troops adjoining them at Wytschate and Dranoutre, were thrown thrown out of their positions.
 "The large crater of Steloi and the place itself was captured. Numerous concrete houses an dfortified farms situated in the fighting area were cap tured
 "Prussian and Bavarian troops took Mont Kemmel and the village by storm. We captured Dranoutre and the height to the northwest of Vleuge- elhoek.
  great successes the rear communica- tion roads of the enemy which were crowded with carts and columns of men,"
 Hunst Take Prisonens
 AS the result of yesterdays bat tie, more than $500 prisoners have been reported up to the present. The majority of the prisoners are French and there are one English and one French regimental commander among the captives.
 South of the SOmme, Villers-Bre- tonneuX, into which we penetrated. could not be held in the face of enemy counter attacks. Further at tacks failed due east of the village. At the wood we wrested from the enemy and the village of Hangard at tacks also failed Tie number of prisoners taken in this battle area has been increased to 2,000. On the west ern bank fthe Moselle, Saxon com panies stormed the French trenches and penetrated into Regneville. After having accomplished their task they returned to their lines with prisoners Kemmel Hill. a height which has been looked upon as the key to the southern side of the Ypres salient, and one of the most important stragetic positions on the northern battle front in France, has been taken by the Germans After a defense which will become one of the heroic chapters of the war, the hill was surrounded and the Frencbe forces entrenched on it's slopes were overcome
 The loss of the hill, which is ad- migted in an official statement by General Delma Radcliffe. chief direc- tor of military operations at the Brit ish war office, brings to the allies realization that the whole Ypres po- sition is in peril from the German drive northward from the lowlands lying to the west of Armentieres.
 Hit Meteren Line
 The Teutons launched terrifice at tacks along the whole Wytschaete Bailleul Meteren line Wednesday, ap- parent yfor the purpose of finding a point which might yield. They eyi- dently found that spot in the section of the front held jointly by the British and French troops; and against it they hurled fresh divisions which fought their way forward all day Thursday until at nightfall they had surrounded Kemmel Hill and isolated the French troops holdin gthe posi- tions. All night long the fight went on and it was not until Friday that the Germans succeeded in storming up the slopes of the height.
 The loss of Kemmel Hill Is serious, for it overlooks much of the low lands lying back of the allied lines in the Ypres salient. The hill is 464 feet in height. rising from lowlands on the south and east. It is six miles southwest of Ypres and three miles west of wytschaete.
 This German success cuts a deep notch in the allied line to the south west of Ypres and completely out Hanks the British on the northern slopes of Messines Ridge to which they were forced by the German as- saults of two weeks ago. The line to the southwest. toward Bailleul, ap- parently is in no particular danger at present. although the village Of Dranoutre has been lost to the enemy.
 Must Retake Hill
 So important is the possession of Kemmel Hill that the allies must launch a counter attack to recapture it. and the French have begun a say age attack on the height If the Ger mans continue to hold it and either consolidate their lines or push on, the allies will be at a great disad- vantage in future engagements.
 The latest reports from the scene of battle are that the Germans are at tacking on line from La Clytte Co the Ypres-Comines canal La Clytte is about mile and a half north of
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