The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-01
GERMAN DEAD
5TREWN OVER.
BATTLE FRONT
Fearful Price in Human Life
Paid by the Attacking
BOche Forces.
Won AMIN FAILS
TO BREAK LINES
Believed Present Halt May Indi-
cate Move of Foch's Great
y Reserve Armies.
Associated press summary }

!. Again there comes q pause in the
.battie of FLANDERS, where the ground
everywhere is covered with gray-clad
bodies Of German dead, and the Brit
lsh and French are holding securely
% all their positions.
From Saturday. we'll into Monday
aiglt General Non trninI's forces con
nued IN efforts to break the British
ues on tie lpres salient and press
1lck British and French from high
srotsnd 10 the southwest, but every
,Nllere their efforts were fruitless.
they again captured Locre, but a coun-
er thrust forced them out again, and
IL last accounts the French were hold
ing the village.
In the hily region Just TO the north
If Locre the British also pushed back
The enemy ai several points, notably
nct~een kemmel and Laclytte.
Much al the snap Of the German at
lacking forces MAS absent from these
maneuNers.
70 the south near Amiens. and to the
cast around Noyon tie enemy likewise
tailed i'm ali his attempts to push for
ward
EAST of NiIlers-Bretonneux the Brit
isa advanced on their front and in the
MY ON NtEAffF 4iIF ETtii4ll IG-fStstbitohN.t
licir tines. which the Germans previ-
ousIy had captured.
Mhile the present halt in the battle
,yssialy may indicate the near ap-|
roach or throwing into the fray the
a ..st reserve ariny General Foeh has
;@.thsrcd that such is the intention of
tile supreme commander has not be-
tonic apparent Ii is not improbable,
however, that at a meeting of the in
ipr-allied war council in Paris We'd
ntsday. measures having in view
turning of the tide of battle will be
uppermost in the ~ eussfons.
A During last night the French in
1tshing counter-Dlow. drove the Ger
inans from the remainder of the small
stretches OF ground they had gained in
their initial drives Of the day.
\ most welcome feature of the cur
rent news from the front is the an
nouncement that the French, on the
crucial part of the line. at Locre, have
not lost any part OF their hold on this
dominating ground. They now have
undisputed possession of Locre, itself,
for the first time i'm several days and
apparently have killed off all the enemy
efforts 10 edge in around that place
and force its abandonment.
Inc vi t4DNIG lies III lhC
fact that IL guards the approach to
NIoupt Rouge, one OF the most valua-
lie hills of the defensive line, which
can not be taken in flank as long as
Ioere remains in allied hands. SINH
larly, the allied troops have stopped
the drive towards Scherpenberg by
holding at La Clytte, while the Belgians
who had two additional German divis-
ions TO face north of Ypres. dealt with
them successfully and prevented any
breach in the line toward the sea.
All the evidence points to the proba-
bility that the Germans suffered in
well-nigh the heaviest casualties of
any day of the fighting In the north
lern front, as wave after wave of the
forces was moved down by
artillery and infantry fires. They We're
so exhausted by their fruitless efforts
that they remained virtually inactive
all night, while no reports have come
through today indicating any resump-
ton OF major activities on their part.
South, on the Somme front, the Brit
ish carried out G. local operation last
night. further improving their position
before Amiens by advancing their line
somewhat east of Villers-Bretonneux.