Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-04-18
Germans Fail to Gain Inch of
Sammies, British and French
Three Allies.
YANKS REPuLSE FOE
stoutness of British Defense Attested
BY Thousands of Enemy Dead
Lying Before Positions South
west of Yfres.

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willie sector of the northern bat
tlefront have been %repuIsed by the
British who inflicted heavy losses
on the enemy, it is announced Of
ficiaIIy. The British have lost
Neuve EgIise. Southwest of Ball.
leuI the Germans temporarily pen
etrated the British positions but
we're driven out by a counterat-
tack.
Paris, April 16.-On the front
above Montdidier the French
made a successful local attack
last night, taking prisoners, the
war office
London. April 16.-F1eld Marshal
Haig's order that NJ more ground be
coded is rigidly being complied with.
The entire Allied line in Belgium and
France is holding firm. Nowhere have
the Germans been able, notwithstand-
ing the great numbers of men hurled
against it, especially that part in
Flanders where the British are holding
forth, to gain an inch of ground.
The stoutness of the British defense
is attested by the thousands of Ger
dead now lying before the Brit
ish positions southwest of Ypres,
where it is the ambition of the high
German command to break through
and envelop Haig's forces and gain
an open highway toward tho English
channel.
Yankees Defeat Heavy Assaults.
North of St. Mihiel the American
troops have been compelled to with
stand a series of persistent assaults,
second in intensity only to those de-
livered by the Germans against the
British in Flanders. And the honors
at the end rested with the Amerl-
cans, who met the foe at every style
IF fighting he offered and decisively
defeated him.
Along the front held by the French,
Sunday saw nothing of greater i'm
%portance than reciprocal lombard
ments on various sectors, the troops
Of both sides remaining in their
trenches.
Likewise in Italy the big guns were
doing most of the work, although at
several points enemy patrols attempt
ed to carry out diversions, but met
with no success
Neuve EgIise Remains British .
At Neuve Eglise, northwest of Ar
mentieres, where the Germans are en-
deavoring to drive their wedge in far
Their in order to outfank Ypres, the
heaviest fighting has taken place.
For two days battle of a most OBJ
stinate character took place, the Ger
nan throwing thousands of men into
the attack, Notwithstanding their
wastage in killed OF wounded. Sew
eral times the village changed hands,
but at last reports the British were
still in possession of it and holding
tenaciously under repeated German
onslaughts.
Nowhere along the eight mile front
where the Germans are trying to
lrive through between Wulverghem
and Veteran have the Germans me,
with anything but repulse, and the
price they have paid for their at.
tempts to breach the British line has
been enormous. or no sector have
they been able to surmount the stone
wall of defense, and, for the moment,
at least, there seems to be justih.
cation for the hope that the urn in
the tide of the battle is at hand.
Berlin Claims Heavy Yankee Losses
Documents captured from German
prisoners show c~onclusively that the
great new offensive of the Germans
was launched with the intention Of
separating the British and French
armies and crushing the British.
The latest German official communi
cation dealing with the situation IT
the region of st. Mihiel, where the
Americans are defending the line
says that the Germans inflicted heavy
losses on the Americans, in a sue
cessful thrust and also took pris
oners.
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