Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-05-15
Huns Make Heavy Attack South
of YpreS.
FIRST LINES TAKEN BY FOE
Enemy Penetrates Allies Positions Be-
tween La CIytte and Voormezeele
Australians Win on
Amiens Front.

rT6uCn lines Oh wednesday DclNCCh
La Clytte and Voormezeele, just to the
south of Ypres.
The official report filed by Field
Marshal Haig said that the allied front
lines were penetrated at certain points,
but that the Germans were repulsed at
others.
Attempt Made to Flank Hills.
The latest German effort is direct
ed against he extreme northeastern
corner of the salient they had driven
into the entente line.
1t is to the northeast of the hill po-
sitiOns near Scherpenberg and LOcre,
where the Germans recently suffered
a decisive defeat in their efforts at
a frontal attack.
1t is probable that by their present
enedeavOr the Germans hope to win
the lower ground to the north and
flank these hill positions.
Attack on Wide Front.
The days fighting is described in a
dispatch from Reuters correspondent
at the British headquarters, who
says.
after a heavy bOmbardmen& on
wide front the German infantry
Launched an attack south of Dickebusch
lake, which lies between Ypres and
KENNEL.
1.-THE attack may develop larger pro-
portions. The enemy seems to have
penetrated our front line between the
lake and Ridge wood and some parties
of Germans are reported in the east
ern wood itself
1--WE still hold the major part of the
wood and also Kleine Vierstrant. The
technical object of enemy operation
seems to be an attempt to clear the
way for a thrust toward Scherpenberg
from the northeast, and it may prove
to be the beginning of further fierce
fighting in this region"
Australians Make Gains.
Meanwhile the entente forces have
scored a success on the Amiens front,
where Australian troops have adj
Yanced to the north of the SOmme.
One advance west of MOrlancourt
midway between Albert and the Som
mee) was to the depth of 300 yards on
q 5O0-yard front. The other was
northeast of Sailly-le-See (On the north
bank of the Somme, three miles south
and west of Morlancourt), 500 yards
deep on a front of 600 yards.
Win over Great Barrage.
The Australians first made a feint
with a heavy bOmbardment in anOth-
er portion of the sector between the
Somme and the Ancre. Then they
attacked simultaneously on the two
fronts, where they made advances.
Big Gas Attack on Americans.
With the American Forces on the
French Front, May 1.-THE Germans
launched a heavy gas attack against
the American troops on the Picardy
front during the night. Early in the
evening they sent over $4,000 shells,
composed chiefly of mustard gas, with
in a brief period.
These shells were followed nv an in
tense artillery fire at midnight. several
hundred gas shells dropping into the
American lines.
Americans Shell Towns.
With the American Army west of
Montdidier, May 7-American guns
are Smelling Montdidier, Cantigny,
Mesnil-St Georges and other towns
and roads in this vicinity captured by
the Germans some time ago.
British Win Near MorIancourt.
London, May THE British took
200 prisoners in their local advance in
the region of Morlancourt (halfway
between the Somme and Albert), Field
Marshal Haig announces.
The British line has been advanced
one-third of mile on a front of more
than a mile between the Somme and
Ancre rivers west-southwest of Nor
lancourt, says the official statement
from Field Marshal Haig's headquar-
tiers.
British positions in the neighbor-
hood of LOGON and the Lave, on the
southern leg of the Lys salient in Elan
derS, have been improved in local fight
ing.
U. S. Guns Wipe Out Foe.
With the American Army in France,
May GA successful artillery attack
vile sector eliminated the first of the
German salients jutting uncomfortably
into our lines on this front
Huns Use New Gas.
With the American Army on a
French Battle Front. May GA new
German liquified gas was projected
against the Picardy front, where Amer
lean troops are fighting.
The gas is contained in glass bot
ties. On bursting they scatter a fluid
from which heavy, white. transparent
fumes arise for five minutes
No defamation was heard as the bot
ties We're hurled. Apparently they were
thrown by spring. The gas caused
nausea, sneezing and coughing. but did
not harm. any Of the Americans.