Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-10
GERMAN TROOPS
UNABLE TO GAIN
ON SHORT FRONT
French and British Artillery
Fire Stops Flanks of
Attacking Line.
HAIG'S FORCES IMPROVE
POSITIONS ALONG SOMME
Guns of Allies Harass Soldiers
of Enemy in Italian
Theater.
AMERICAN PATROL AIBUSHED
Teutons Use Bayonets and Butts Of
Rifles With Terrible
Effect. Arttii
PATROL AMBUsHED
Teutons Use Bayonets and Butts Of
Rifles With Terrible
Effect. al
tRy Associated Prcss.l-

The allied defense on the Flanders
front. to the southwest of Ypres, has
again been tested BY the Germans, and
has been found adequate. Two divisions
of Teuton troops were employed on
relatively short front and were sent
into the tight under cover OF terrific
artillery fire. The front chosen for the
attack extended from the village of
La Clyttc to Voormczecle. but the cen
ter of the assault seems to have been
at Nierstraat. hamlet northeast oc
KENNEL Hill.
The tanks of the German attacking
line were stopped short by fire from
the French and British artillery posted
on high ground and which was able to
entlade the German regiments as they
tried to advance In the center, how
ever, tho Germans made quite a serious
dent in the allied line. Wednesday
night however the allies drove for-s
ward IN n counterGttaClS. and tho latest.
reports from Field Marshal Huig are
to the effect that the limo has been
| rc-establshed. The Germans are re-
ported to have lost very heavily during
the lighting.
There is constant rumble of heavy
artillery fire along the Somme front.
but here the British have again im-'
proved their position by local attacks
The Canadian forces from New BrunS-
wick lnd Nova Scotia have engaged in
IL successful local attack south OF AR
ras.
| On the southern sectors OF the Son,me
salient. as we'll as in Lorraine and
other sectors further south. there have
been no noteworthy combats.
| The artillery of the contcndiag armies
continues very active in the AsiaEo
basin region on the Italian front. Tho
official reports from Rome tell of en-
| emy troops being 'hampered" by the
allied fire The Brcnta and Maserala
sectors also have been ccnters of heavy
! bomba rtlmcntS. *, !,
ON the Italian front rains have put,
stop TO lively artillery and patrol
engagements. The British forces adj
vancinG northward from Bagdad, in
McSopotamia. have captured kerkuk,
l5o miles north of Bagdad and eighty
! miles southeast OF NIosul, the objec-
tive OF the drive. Six hundred wounded
Turks were taken.
AMERICAN PATROL VICTIM
Or ENEMY AMBUSH
| An American patrol on the foul
sector fell victim to a silent enemy am
! bush Wednesday night. according TO
| word received late Thursday from the
! American army headquarters in FranceA
The Germans evidently used their
| bayonets ana the butts Of their rifess
| with terrible effect. The Americans
went out early in the evening. and
| nothing further vas heard from them
until another patrol happened to cross
| the spot where the others had been am
! bushed. Not one shot was fired dur
! ing the encounter the enemy apparent
! ly fearing to arouse the other troops
I in the camp nearby. .71,'
Bad weather prevails on the Ameri-
| can sector in France. In this sector
! also the American heavy artillery has
! been in action for the first time. Near.
Montdidicr. in Pcardy, the American
| gunners continue their harassing fire
| against the Germans .
! The American army Is growing
| rapidly in strength. Although refus-
| ing to divulge the exact number of
men Who have gone overseas, Secretary
Baker announces that more than 5pJ,-
! uUu men are now in France
The city Of Amiens is being syste-s
ma'iaAl" destroyed by German artii-
!cry fire, in spite OF the fact that there
are no allied troops in that place, and
II is OF no military value. since THE
allies have constructed new lines o.
communications outside Of the city.
| The venerable cathedral, one of the
hneSt in Europe. is reported to have
been struck by shells. and TO be in periI
| of destruction.