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New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Movement Fails
of Final Success

By the extension of their move
ment to Cachy the French left at
Hangard Wood, which had itself
successfully resisted the German
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

neighborhoods of Poperinghe and
Ypres. The hill was too difficult
to take by frontal assault, and the
action therefore developed, as had
been expected ever since the loss
of Messines Ridge, along the two
valleys to the east and west of it,
with the object of turning the sum-
nit.
A village to the northeast of the
hill gives it's name to KENNEL. A
village on the southwest bears the
name of Dranoutre. The enemy
fought his way along during the
whole Of Thursday, April 25, on
either side Of the base of the hill;
he passed Dranoutre by about 5000
yards and reached and held the viii
lage of KENNEL. At this point the
summit was surrounded by a sort
of horseshoe.
Orders had been given for the
French division occupying the
summit to hold on till the last
not because there was any hope
of holding the hill, which was now
obviously doomed, but presumably
in order to give time so that neces-
sary dispositions could be taken in
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

assaults, was left uncovered, the
French lost the eastern part of the
wood, and also lost for the fourth
time the village of Hangard, south
of it-for this village had changed
hands eight times from French to
German and back again, and the
fighting here for month has fuct-
uated over belt of less than one
thousand yards in width.
In the course of the night re-
serves were put in by the British
command, part of them Austria
ians, and these drove the enemy
out Of Villers-Bretonneux and re-
established the line. A point of
great Importance was thus saved.
In the meanwhile new British
tanks appeared from Cachy and
partially restored the line there
also, but not sufficiently to permit
the French to advance eastward of
Hangard Wood.
The Germans claim in their first
blow against both the French and
British a total of 1000 prisoners
and four guns, and the British at
the end of their counter attack
counted 900 prisoners. The action
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Two Important
Actions In Week

Two important actions marked
the week Immediately following
the situation described in my last
article. The first was fought on
wednesday and Thursday, April
"a and 25, in the region of Villers-
Bretonneux, in front of Amiens,
and the second, far to the north,
occupied Thursday and Friday and
only came to a standstill on Sat-
urday, while German reserves
were being brought up. This may
De called the action of Mount
KENNEL.
VI these two actions the first
was by far the more important. It
occupied a greater number of the
enemy troops, and had it succeeded
would have had far greater results.
Happily it failed.
The second, which had the sue
cess it aimed at, was nevertheless
overemphasized in the public mind
because OF the fact that the region
Wnere it took place had become fa-
mliaar to civilian observers of the
Mar, because the advance. which
tue German armies succeeded in
making threatened another fa-
mlllar region (the Ypres salient,
Wnlcn has no strategical value),
ana finally because this advance
vas IN proximity to the sea and
therefore to the English coast.
The action at Villers-Breton-
ueux followed the lines deter
n'ned by the nature of the plateau
B. y Which the village stands, which
: some $50 to 180 feet above the
.aler levels Of the streams on
sltner side and runs from the
eonfl1e Valley in the north to the
Luce brook to the south. Across
s.las plateau and covering Amiens.
4 oout nine miles behind it, lies the
sAaales line; and in the middle of it
NH tlae point of junction where the
ehch and British troops meet.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

was over by noon on Thursday, and
has been succeeded by no further
infantry movement in this region,
but only by violent mutual bonn
bardments. The total number of
German divisions occupied from
first to last during this affair,
counting from the Somme on the
north to the extreme left of the
Germans attempted turning move
ment against the French, must
have been about eleven, of which
eight we're identified from prison.
ers taken by the Allied forces.
The Taking of
Mount KENNEL
In the battle on the north for
Mount KENNEL nine German divi-
sions were used, being taken from
the German Fourth Army-that of
General Won Arnim-with the OBJ
ject of capturing this mound of
ground, the first Of the somewhat
isolated hills which stretch in a
chain westward across the plain of
Flanders. 1t is point giving ex-
cellent observation over all the re-
gion to the north, including the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
KENNEL Victory Offset by Two
Defeats -Allies Increase Num-
bers of Defensive Troops
Copyright, 191s-The Tribune Association

the rear. This French division
hung on until the last, and it's sur
vivors were captured.
The action continued during the
whole of Friday, the German line
reaching the village Of Locre and
La Clytte, the crossroads of Vier-
STRAIT and the village of Saint Eloi,
outside of Ypres. On Saturday
Locre was retaken by the French,
but heavy pressure was continued
along the whole line during the
period in which the German COM
mand was bringing up the new
forces, which were used in the tre-
mendous and futile assault on
Monday.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The Importance of
Comparative Losses

1t is necessary at this stage in
the great series of actions along
the Western front to emphasize
the great Importance of the COM
parative losses of the contending
armies and the fact that we are
not yet in possession of those sta
tistics which alone would permit
us to judge intelligently of those
losses.
We shall have those statistics
before the end of the summer, but
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
May Compel
Ypres Evacuation

It is clear that the German ad-
vance here seriously threatens the
Ypres salient and may compel it's
evacuation. What is less fully un-
derstood outside Of military circles
is that this salient in itself has no
strategic value. Any advantage
which the enemy might gain in
compelling the evacuation of it
would depend upon the rapidity
with which he could enforce the
British retirement and the cor
responding confusion which he
might impose upon the British
armies.
On the other hand, the capture
of the whole Of that line of hills
of which KENNEL is the first
would have the serious conse-
quence that it would compel gen.
eral withdrawal along the coast,
uncover Dunkirk and involve a
very rapid and difficult readjust-
ment of the large forces now in
that region. 1t is to create such
conditions that the enemy is now
acting at very great expense of
life in his attacks in this continu-
alton of the Lys battle. His sue
cess or failure will depend not
upon the fact of his advance, but
entirely upon it's speed. If it's
pace be curbed and his correspond
ing expense in men be enforced
and emphasized, and if the corre-
spending redispositions of the de-
fence have leisure for safe and in
expensive adjustment, then the
enemy advance is of no effect. But
it at any moment the advance be-
comes rapid it will, even in this
subsidiary sector, be of great ef-
feet, though not what it would
have been had it taken place in
front of Amiens.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

nY FAR the most striking
X news of the week is the
- Reuter- telegram from
French official sources saying the
HIGHER Command has information
Of the appearance on the front of
full company of the German
class of 1920-that German boys
two years under military age are
already in the field, and that after
only eight weeks training.
It is much the earliest call of
men yet made by any nation since
the war began. These boys, not
quite or just eighteen, are an in
dex to the drain on German man
power of the present battle.
The action of last Monday, April
20, is of great Importance also as
an index Of the stage the battle has
reached after lull of three days.
Thirteen enemy divisions, of which
eleven are identified, attacked the
French and British southwest of
Ypres with the object of carrying
the remainder of the line of hills,
Of which KENNEL is the first.
It is significant of the Allied po-
sition that this attack was met by
the concentration (for the first
time since the northern battle be-
gan) of more than half as many
men on the defensive side as there
were on the offensive. The order
in which the defence stood was:
Australians on the right, in low
ground south of the hills; French
in the hills, joining the English
near La Clytte; then English di-
visions on the plain beyond as far
as the region of Ypres itself.
Inc herman attack was pressed
all day and it was completely
broken. The lines were nowhere
advanced at the close of the battle.
and in places they were retired.
The loss and disorganization were
50 heavy that four full days have
been allowed to pass without any
further movement.
An action of this type, conducted
on so large a scale, breaking down
IN the seventh week of the often
sive is of significance.
There is evidence of the concen-
tration of fresh divisions on the
front before Amiens.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

The northern part of the plateau
held by the British, has on it's cdge
the village called Villers-Breton-
neuX, from which the army in oc-
cupation can look down onto the
lower Somme Valley. Behind Vii
iers-Bretonneux is a long woods
following for two miles the edge
OF the plateau and having on it's
southern border the village of
Cachy. In the French section YOU
have. overlooking the Luce brook.
the ruins of Hangard village, and
to the north of this, toward the
British in front of Cachy, the long
Hangard Wood parallel to the lines.
Attack Against Both
British and French
The enemy attacked all along
this line at $50 on the morning
of Wednesday, April "a, ATTEMPT
ing two manGuvres. The first was
to drive the British out of Villers-
Bretonneux and so reach the
edge of the plateau and have OBJ
servation over the Somme Valley
and down to Amiens. The second
was to turn the French left at it's
junction with the British (while
at the same time he was attacking
the French directly from the
'front.', SO to push up the Avre VAL
ley and make the French abandon
their part of the plateau.
In the second of these tasks
against the French) the German
failed. In the first against the
British) he succeeded during the
course of the first fifteen hours of
the battle, but his advance was
nailed down again in the remain
ing fifteen hours. He first attacked
against the British with the 77th
Reserve Division, recently come
from the Russian front, and with
the 4th Division of the Prussian
Guard, which had already appeared
twice in the battle since the Ger
mans launched their offensive on
March FL, but which had been with
drawn and recruited and was re-
turned to the line after a fort
nights rest. I'd.
The attack was launched from
about a thousand yards or so in
front or to the east of Villers-Bre-
tonneux, along the great high road
to Amlens, which here traverses
the plateau. During the course of
the morning two more German di-
VISIONS were put in, and portions of
TWO others appeared before even
ing. The village of Villers-B -Bre-
tonneux was carried, the. Germans
reached the edge Of the plateau.
and on their left, to the south of
the great wood, penetrated far be-
yond the original British lines to
Cachy, using tanks for the first
time in this operation.
Movement Fails
of Final Success
By the extension of their move
ment to Cachy the French left at
Hangard Wood, which had itself
successfully resisted the German
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
The Plans of Two
Opponents in Strategy

Now and again the defensive
suffers similar and unexpected 4
loss through the use of an insult
ficient containing force, through
surprise or through the unex-
pected breakdown of some particu-
lar section of it's line.
But, over and above these de-
tails, reign the master plans of the
two opponents in strategy. No
one can possibly say yet which of
the two has so far made it's points
in the deadly game or which of the
two is advancing the more rapidly
toward it's goal. 1t does not fol-
low that the defensive is being
beaten because it loses ground,
nor that the offensive is being
beaten because it loses a larger
proportion of men, so long as that
proportion of men or the proper
ton of ground is kept within the
limits assigned to it and so long
as it achieves it's end before the
exhaustion of reserves or the limit
of safe retirement comes.
What we have to watch in all
that is to follow is not so much the
slow encroachments of the Ger
mans, as shown upon the map, as
the large and rapid changes of
disposition of their armies which
may be forced upon the Allies;
such large and rapid changes of
disposition being always dispro-
portionately expensive both in
morale and numbers. And what
we have to follow in estimating the
success of the defence is not its
power to retain this or that place
without retirement, but its power
to drain the strength from the at
tacking force. Unfortunately, the
first of these two elements is far
easier to gauge than the second.
The first is visible and the second
is, as yet, invisible. But those are
the two great elements in the play
and we must never forget them in
the more vivid thou gh inferior in-
terest of particular actions.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

even if we did not the events upon
the battlefield alone, apart from
such statistical information, will
show us which of the two grea.
strategic efforts has succeeded.
The enemy's effort is to exhaust
the reserve power of the French
and English armies before any
considerable American forces can
come into play. He can only do
this by continuing those violent
and expensive offensive move
ments on which he has staked his
chances in making his great gam
BILE, in the hope that some one of
them will at last produce so CON-
siderable a result on the field of
battle that it will lower the num-
bers opposed to him suddenly and
by a great figure.
Like all spectators, however
rash they may be, but who know
their business, he watches his
hand carefully; he Goes not allow
himself to be drawn too far into
operations which have proved too
expensive Of execution in the lives
OF his men. He makes his at
tempts against the Allied forces
now here and now there, choosing
the point and determining the
weight of his blow with the single
Idea that some one such blow will
in the long run give him tbs con-
siderable effect he desires.
Conversely, the defensive in this
supreme duel of civilization
against barbarism watches it's
hand with equal care, holds the
enemy's offensives with the very
smallest number possible, rein
forced only when some vital point
is in danger, and is determined so
far as is possible to maintain his
balance of fresh troops.
Now and again the offensive
gets let into quite disproportion-
ate loss of men through some mis-
calculation on it's part, as, for ex-
ample, during the great attack on
April 4, when the Germans threw
away men wholesale, but without
result, in the belief that they could
force a line which had, as a mat
ter of fact, been consolidated in
front of them.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

Appearance of Boys OF. Is Most
Significant Development
Of the Last Week
By HILAIRE BELLOC

Author elements of the Great War" Bras Mos,
Military
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10
Capt. Guest of British
Army Speaks Here

Continued from Page One
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10
500 Men Needed For War
Work of K. of G. In Trenches

Washington, D. c., May 9.-(Special.)
According to a cablegram received By
the Knights of Columbus Committee on
War Activities from Walter N. Herman.
Knights Of Columbus Commissioner
with the American Armies Overseas,
800 men are needed for Knights OF Co
lumbus recreation work abroad. The
employment of these men has been
authorized by the committee and it Is
expected that recruiting offices will be
opened in all the principal cities Of the
United States. In the meantime, appli-
cations will be received at the Wash
ington office Of the committee.
Four contingents of knights Of Co
lumbus chaplains and field secretaries
have already gone abroad and are now
at work in France. Applications from
men who desire to render foreign SER
vice as secretaries are being received
from all parts of the country. The
great need now is for men who are ex-
perienced in construction work, as it
is impossible to secure sufficient labor
in France.
Zone Of the most important prob
lens is the erection of suitable build
ings for the use Of the men over
There -, says Col. P H. Callahan,
Committee on War Activities. These
buildings will be similar in every re-
spect to those we are now operating
in the American camps, and they will
include many extra features which for
eign conditions necessitate. We want
experienced builders, traffic managers,
auto-repair and operating men, ware
house men and a limited number Of
book keepers. In addition to these, we
can use more secretaries and men who
can prepare light refreshments for the
boys going and coming from the
trenches"
1t is pointed out by the committee
on war activities that men who enter
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10

(CODtlnu6Q from rage OHe
laid across in order that the men may
walk"
Describing the awful casualties after
battle. Captain Guest paid high trib-
ute to the strecher bearers, of the
danger they face, of their bravery I'M
der fire, their splendid morale and cited
as an instance of the training they
have received that the army surgeons
declare that in almost every instance
all first aid attention is found to have
been of the very best, many life
having been saved by the promptitude
and efficiency of these men.
Referring to the comfort bags fur
nished by the Red Cross. he told of the
place they take in the affections of the
soldiers. Of the real comfort they have
proven.
In speaking of the battle on the
western front. Captain Guest said !:
THE papers said that we retired. ]
cannot use that term. No British SOL
dier is allowed to use the words re-
tire or retreat The British soldiers
withdrew And they have re-taken the
ground from which they were with
drawn.
II want to speak of the splendid
thing your general did at this time.
Take my men and put them into your
division This was the message which
came from General Pershing to the
British commander. 1t take a soldier
to fully appreciate the sublime sacri-
flee of that message, the announcement
of ambition. 1t was great and noble
act of the American General, who put
the cause of the allies before all per-
sonal thought for himself or his men.
About year ago l was censoring
letters and I came across this from a
young boy to his mother Dear Moth
err: This war has been going on for
more than three years. It's time some
body did something
Somebody has done something. You
American people did it. One night |
got a paper. AS I went from among
the men, they asked for the news. and
I told them that American had enter
ed the war. Thank God, now we'll
win This, almost to a man, was what
they said.
For. although the British soldier
knew that we should win, when Amer
lea entered the war he knew that VIC
tory was nearer.
Il have been asked what l think of
the American soldier. And l tell YOU
think he is the finest fighting material
that have ever seen. And have heeR
in the army since I was sixteen wears
Of age, and come Of a fighting line"
Captain Guest, who was accompanied
by Captain s. r. Mallory Kennedy. Just
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10
SMOKES WANTED
FOR THE MENhbROhD

Scarcity Of Bull Durham smoking
tobacco, is now worrying the hab
itues Of the rollers of the markings. !"
The government has taken over this
brand of smoking material for thu
soldier abroad.
DIR Harvey W. Wiley. when at the
head of the pure food and drug branch
Of the United States Department of
Agriculture at Washington, D. C., said
that he found this tobacco to be made
principally OF hay.
The Pensacolans who now want to
go to the hay" are numerous. Rut
the soldier boys across the water
need IL more than the fellows who
re held here awaiting to get to the
front
Over in Montgomery. Ala, Mrs. W.
W. Screws, wife of Col w. w
Screws, commanding the s7th In
fantry, regiment. Rainbow division. is
taking up a collection to Send Over
Smokes" to the men Of her hasband,s
regiment and has gathered in four or
FIVE thousand dollars A cigarette
between bullets acts as narcotic
and nerve restorer and IL the women
folks of West Florida would start a
successful campaign for tobacco for
their boys over in France, it would
go a long way, not only in distance
but in comforting the home sick SOL
diers fighting over there.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-10
NEW YORK COTTON.

New York, May 9.-The cotton mar
ket was quiet during today's early
trading with prices showing steadiness
on scattered covering or a moderate
demand from other sources. Better
cables than due, the continued alb
sence of spot pressure and the reduc-
ton reported in the official marine war
risks were factors son the opening adj
vance of ? to 6 points. Houses with
Liverpool and Wall street connections
We're among the buyers while the Ia
vorable weather map evidently failed
to inspire any selling of consequence
Covering was stimulated to some ex-
tent by the forecast for lower temper
atures in the southwest while there
was also a little trade buying Of Oc-
tober. July sold up from 25.75 and
October to 25.0s.
Rumors of dissension in German mill
itary circles and of British successes
on the western front were followed by
furry of covering during the early
afternoon. For time the market was
active and somewhat excited with July
selling up to 2597 and October to 25.35
or 49 to 81 points net higher. but at
this level demand tapered off, and
there were reactions of ten to fifteen
points under realizing.
Cotton closed very steady