Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-17
wALHAbLA. SOUTH CARoL,NA.
GERMANS RAIN HEAVY BLOWS
On BlitiEs:, Bat Line Holds Against
All the Attacks,

PresS 4tepOrt from Gables sunday. J.
The entire allied line in Belgium and
France is holding firm. Nowhere
have the Germans been able, not
withstanding the great numbers OF
men hurled against it, especially that
portion in FLANDERS where the British
are holding forth, to gain an inch Of
ground. Field Marshal Haig's order
that no more ground should be ceded
is rigidly being complied with, as is
attested by the thousands Of German
dead now lying before the British
positions southwest Of Ypres.
Northwest Of st. Mihiel the Ameri-
can troops have been compelled to
withstand a series Of persistent as
saults, second in intensity only to
those delivered by the Germans
against the British in Flanders. And
the honors at the end rested with the
Americans, who met the foe at every
style Of fighting he offered and decis-
ively defeated him.
Along the front held by the French,
Sunday saw nothing Of greater i'm
portance than reciprocal lombard
merits on various sectors, the troops
on both sides remaining in their
trenches. Likewise in Italy the big
guns were doing most Of the work.
At Neuve Eglize, northwest Of Ar
mentieres, where the Germans are
endeavoring to drive their wedge in
farther in order to outflank Ypres,
the heaviest fighting has taken place.
Throughout Saturday night and Sun
day battles of a most obstinate char
acter took place.
The Germans, throwing thousands
Of men into the attack along the so
mile front, are trying to drive their
wedge between Wulverghem and
Meteren. Everywhere they have
met with repulse and the price they
have paid for their attempts to
! breach the British line has been
enormous. On no sector have they
been able to surmount the stone wall
Of the defense.
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prisoners show conclusively that the
great new offensive Of the Germans
was launched with the intention Of
separating the British and French
armies and crushing the British.
The latest German official commu-
nication dealing with the situation in
the region Of St. Mihiel, where the
Americans are defending the line,
says that the Germans inflicted heavy
losses on the Americans.
In Finland the Germans are con-
tfnuing to over-run the country, and
the fall of Helsingfors is daily to be
expected.
British Yield Neuve Eglize.
With the British Army in France,
April 15.-The battle about Neuve
Eglize, near the Belgian border,
which has been retaken by the Ger
mans, continued to rage this morn
ing with the same intensity that has
marked it for days and the British
are pounding the Germans hard.
Another assault on Bailleul, four
miles west of Neuve Eglize, is ex-
pected momentarily.
The latest reports this forenoon
showed that the British line was be-
ing strongly held as a. whole In this
northern zone and in some instances
had been considerably improved by
counter strokes.
The British last evening followed
up their success of Saturday, when
they pushed the Germans back from
Robecq on the Clarence river. Local
counter attacks delivered on the Ger
man positions 5000 yards to the
east of this town were completely
successful and the enemy again was
forced to fall back somewhat.
The British in the course of the
afternoon also pushed back several
posts north of the canal between the
Lave and Clarence rivers.
These operations indicate that the
defense Of the entente allied troops
has stiffened.
The battle which has been raging
about Neuve Eglize has been one of
the most sanguinary since the Ger
man offensive began. Friday night
the Germans succeeded after heavy
hand-to-hand fighting in gaining pos
session of the town. He held It
through the night, but Saturday
morning the British drove forward