Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-25
Germans Are Forced From Cap
turned Positions on the FIan-
ders Front.
DEFEAT HUNS At GIvENcHY
English Win All detectives in coun-
ter-Attacks-HaIt Foe at Robecq
French Break Up Raiding
Operation Near Amiens.

announced today. The French took
prisoners In this local action The ar
tillery has been active along the
southern battle line between Lassigny
and Noyon
British Make Gains.
London, April 22.-The British gain
| ed all their detectives in their coun-
ter-attaclSing in Flanders, advancing
4 their defenses at Givenchy and Festu
bert and re-establishing their posi-
| lions.
Nine machine guns, a trench mortar
and prisoners We're taken by the Brit
ish In local operation south of the
Scarpe river, the war Office announces.
A German counter-attack was re-
pulsed.
In Flanders the British elected the
Germans from advanced positions
gained by them in Thursdays attack
in the region of Givenchy and Festu-
bert.
In sharp fighting southeast of Ro-
becq the British drove back German
attacking parties.
Reserves Menace Hihdenburg.
Active fighting operations have halt
ed for the time being while each side
prepares for the next onslaught. It
is not improbable that the Germans
| again will attack, either in Picardy or
| In Flanders-Artois, while over every
move they make hangs the menace of
the allied reserve army and coun-
ter-offensive.
Unfavorable weather has settled
but up to the present the Germans
have selected mist and rain and cold
periods as opportune for striking, and
the lull In their attacks is due more
probably to their appalling losses,
which, In the last ten days. have
caused such depletions in organiza-
tons that offensive tactics must wait
the arrival Of new troops.
The enemy is moving up fresh
troops and supplies along the Lys riv-
er, and these are being bombar1ed
heavily by the British.
Germany probably still has many
reserve divisions, and there is little
doubt her masters will use the last
division in their attempts to crush
! either the British or the French.
British Line Unbroken.
(. The British have borne the brunt of
the present campaign, which will end
its first month today, and their line
is still unbroken. The enemy has not
been able to pierce 1t and roll up the
4 Sido nc ha infandnd
Facing them today on the western
front, the Germans find British.
French, American, Belgian, Portu-
guese and Italian troops. The number
is increasing constantly, while the
Germans undoubtedly have used up
their veteran divisions in the battles
of the last month.
The Germans cannot halt now if
they would attempt to crush the allies
while they themselves yet have
strength, Field Marshal Haig's Fabian
tactics have been more than match
for the strong, head-on rushes of the
Germans. In month of the heaviest
fighting Of the war. the Germans have
gained nothing, the allies could not
afford to lose. At the same time, the
British have inflicted losses more than
commensurate with the value of the
positions sacrificed.
In Position for Offensive.
In fact, the allies now are in bet
ter position for an oyerpowering often
sive than they We're on March o.,
In Flanders and in Artois north OF
f6o fpcr u11t, o<{,,o
the Germans especially so north Of
Merville, the apex Of the northern sa
: lient.
1 On the Picardy battlefield the Ger
man artillery fire has been lively be
tween the Somme and Montdidier.
9 On the right bank of the Meuse
probably on the American sector soutl
i Of verdun, America and Frencl
j troops have carried out small rait
into the enemy trenches. Several cas-
ualties were inflicted on the Germans
Germans Nursing Their Hurts.
: With the British Army In France
April 22.-Trouble still is brewing II
the northern zone and south of tn,
River Somme. There are Indication
in the latter region that anothe
!, mighty thrust for the British suppl,
base of Amiens is boiling. The Ger
mans are nursing their hurts in the re
gion of La Bassee canal.
In sharp local engagement at Rte
J du yinage from the direction of Pacau
wood the enemy overran the Britisl
outposts, but was driven back to TIL
Il wood.
y In the Arras region there was NOR
4 activity. The British advanced thei
a line slightly on 1,500-yard front cas-
t of Beaurains and repulsed a German
i counter-attack. Later, however, tn
British withdrew to their original line