Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
Tremendous German Attacks
to Destroy British in FIan-
ders Prove Futile.
TEUT0NS EXPECTED
TO TURN TO PICARDY
Foch Molds Reserve Army That
Will Defeat the Enemy.
THE MACEDONIA SITUATION
THE MACEDONIA SITUATION
Allies Must Usher in Major Of
fensive There if Greater Results
Are Achieved-Austria
Political Shake-Up.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

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Coupled with ratification over
the apparently permanent check
for the German armies in their
Flanders and Picardv offensives
are the questions as to where the
Germans will deliver their next
heavy stroke and how nearly
ready are the gigantic allied
forces to strike back with con-
certed and sustained power.
Further tremendous German
blows are certain. Political as
well as military conditions de-
' mand that the kaiser. Won linden
burg and Ludendorff keep on de-
spite losses which absolutely
stagger the imagination. Their
armies in Flanders and Picardy
occupy positions which are es-
sentially dangerous from a tacti-
cal standpoint, if they desist in
their efforts.
Furthermore. the main German
purpose of driving wedge be-
tween the British and French
armies and administering crush
ing defeat on British ranks vet
remains to be achieved. Allied
resistance everywhere has thrown
a monkeywrench in the German
military machine. But Teutonic
leaders care not for their men,
They will continue to hurl them
into the inferno as long as men
can be had. Inasnuch as they
are to be obtained at the present
moment in almost unlimited num-
bers in other arenas. it may be
expected that the western front
will continue to be d charnel
house for months to come
Germans during the past week have
been delivering their main strokes on
the battle front between Arras and
Ypres with the avowed intention of
pressing their salient deep into the
British line. SO that the English will
not only be forced from Arras, but
knni,
lying north to the coast.
After making material success in
tremendous fighting of ten days ago.
and, folio wing the British evacuation
of positions on a greater portion of
the Messincs ridge and the readjust-
ment of Haig's position on the Paschep-
daeIe section to the north of Ypres. the
Germans have not been able to gain.
During the past week they have
! hurled their legions against the Brit
ish armies occupying the northern
side of the salient, roughly, between
Wytschaete and Meteren. Wave after
wave of gray-clad soldiers have pushed
toward the British positions which oc-
cupy high ground in this section. and
y as many times they have been turned
e.
After having captured BaiIleul. one
Of the allied railway centers, the Ger
!Nans sought to press past the high
ground before Hazebrouck, but stag
Eering losses evidently forced the leu
tons to desist in their effort in this
particular region for the time being.
,as the Germans next turned to the area
nearer Ypres. delivering assault after
assault agains british positions on
Mount Kennel. which is the highest
point in the Ike. The Germans were
able to Gam Il Portion OF the lower
slopes CO this dcEIina ting position. but
Haig's line fas held like concrete in
the main. After suffering sanguinary
casualtieS the TeLttlS next turned
their attention to the southern side
of the salient between st. ~-enant and
Givenchy. The battle which ragged here
late Wednesday and all day Thursday
has not been exceeded in fury on any
section of the western front.
Plainly, the Germans sought to cross
the La Bassee canal, envelop Bethune
another important railway center, and
force the Briti:a, to evacuate theii
to the east and back westward to AL
bert TO the south. The British realized
the German purpose and fought like
tigers. Ge>rnan dead completely Gov
cred some sections of the battlefield
and at come places German forces
actually made barbados of their dead
The sum total of their efforts was g-
nominious failure The British here
were as firm as on the northern side
of the wedge.
Soma attacks We're delivered by the
Germans at the point of the salient ir
the general region of Mereville, but
efforts here likewise were futile
X
Taken a whole. it has been glo-
rious week for British arms. The
German has beer
Glorious Week out-fousht, out
for British Arms. On ,hs p,c.r
line the French delivered one attach