The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-05-01
Foe Is Beaten Back Near Ypres;
French Troops Retake
! Positions.
iPETAIN REGAINS VITAL LINE
Hundreds Of Germans Are Captured
by the British in Big Battle at
voormezeeIe, Two Miles
South Of Goal.

recaptured positions from Locre 10 La
Clyte, In Flanders, west of Mount
KENNEL II Is announced officially.
The fighting on the Flanders front
north Of the Lys was very severe. The
enemy's advance was held Mt all points.
Heavy losses were inflicted on the
Germans.
Continuing their counter-attacks on
the front east of Amiens the allies
have gained further advantages In the
Hangnrd- VillcrS- Bretonneaux sector.
The Germans made heavy attack
on the front south of Ypres. There
was long battle for Voormezeele.
two miles south of Ypres which the
British retained. taking hundreds of
prisoners.
French Stop Attack.
Paris, April GA German attack
near Themes, on the front southeast
Of Amiens. was broken at night. the
war office announces. Artillery fight
ing continues on the front between
VillersBretonneux and Hangard.
Fighting - Desperate.
Fighting of the most desperate char
acter attends the German attempt to
enlarge on the capture of Mont KEN
mel. on the Flanders front. as the
FrancO-BritiSh troops strive to hold the
enemy in check. ON the vital sec
tor of the Picardy front east of Am
lens the allied soldiers have driven the
Germans from more of the ground they
gained earlier in the week.
The fall Of Mont KENNEL is a scri-
Gus blow to the security of the salient
about Ypres, but to gain n complete
victory there the Germans must strike
quickly. This they are trying to do,
while the allied troops resist strenu-
ously. While KENNELS capture by
the enemy does not mean the imme-
date evacuation of Ypres military OBJ
servers say, II does menace the Brit
ish positions there, and n further re-
trement in the next few days is not
unlikely.
Southwest of Ypres the Germans
are now on n line running from the
northwest of Bailleul through Locre
to La Clytc and eastward to the Ypres-
Confines canal. Field Marshal Haig
admits a retirement along the canal
and Berlin claims the occupation of
st. ElOi, two and one-half miles south
of Ypres.
Terrific Fight at KENNEL.
KENNEL hill did not fall without
IL
ment to the bravery of French regi-
ment, which was cut Off from the allied
line, but held out until surrounded on
all sides by the Germans. The ultimate
fate of the French defenders. fight
ing tremendous odds, Is not known to
the allies. FrancO-BritiSh troops at
tempted strong cOunter-attacks to re-
take the hill, but were driven back
by the Germans, who are using nine
divisions, 10000 men, on front of
about eight miles.
The German attack in the north. I'M
less it can gather much greater momen-
tum does not yet threaten the Belgian
line from DiXmude to the sea. al
though it does affect the British about
Ypres.
The enemy must advance still far
Their before the BelganS will be com
PEELED 10 give up the historic line of
the User, which they have held for so
many months.
Successes were gained by allied
troops in cOunter-attack south of the
SOmme from -BretOnneux to
south of lanyard.
German officers Chagrined.
With the British Army in France
April 29.-Among the prisoners cap
tured near Villers-BretonneuX were
several young officers who gave their
opinion of things in general with re-
freshing candOr. They were chagrned
mt the fiaSco which the Germans had
made of the Villers-B retonneuX af-
fair. Some had unknd things to say
of the higher command.
A large part of their trouble the Of
ficers laid 30 the fact that the British
held hill north of the village which
gave the defenders full observation on
the Germans for many miles. This
hill, known as hill l0i, lies close to
the front line and commands wide
sweep of country. From 1t the Brit
ish gunners have played havoc with
the German troops and transports.
The prisoners said that for three
days prior to the attack they had vir-
tually nothing 10 eat because the food
trains were smashed by shell fire and
kitchens which tried to cook what food
there was on hand were continually
being demolished. As result the Ger
mans had little love for their task
when the time came To attack.
The Germans were more or less
buoyed up, however, by the promise
OF great things from the tanks which
had not yet been seen in action.
A British officer, in talking with one
OF the young German lleutenants,
asked the latter to explain why the
German submarines had sunk only one
American transport.
THAT IL what we would like TO
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