Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-05-08
GERMANS DRIVEN
BACK BY ALLIES
WITH BIC LOSSES
Enemy Dead Cover Flanders
Battlefield.
FRENCH WIN AT N0Y0N
Franco British Forces Not Only Hold
Positions, but Reclaim Ground at
Several PIaces-capture of
KENNEL Hill Costly
to Huns.
FRENCH WIN AT NoYoN

London, May French troops
Tuesday night improved their posi-
tons in the neighborhood of Locre, on
the Flanders front, the war office an
nOunces. The British rushed German
posts in the Meteren sector and took
prisoners. The statement follows:
Huns in Death Trap.
British Headquarters in France,
May 1.-THE Franco-British batteries
are constantly Smelling Mont KENNEL.
Unless the enemy can push on beyond
this isolated stronghold the hill top
may become virtually a death trap.
The advantage of KENNEL to the
enemy is a tactical one. He is now
committed to an attempt to push on
and capture the whole chain of hills.
Defeat Causes Halt.
British Army in Flanders, May q
Gen. Won Arnim made no further move
along the Flanders battle front. The
heavy defeat which the Germans suf-
fered Monday forced them to pause
and bring up fresh troops before con-
tinuing their drive for the hill posi-
uOUS III the heInI0el region.
A few more hours, however, will Suf-
flee for their reorganization and an
other assault may be expected imme-
diately.
The seriousness of the German in
tentiOns here has been evinced in nu-
merous ways. On Monday, for exam
pie, they pushed at least one field gun
forward to within 700 yards of the
battle front and other guns were
brought close up.
Allied Armies Stop Drive.
With the British Army in France,
May Further desperate smashes by
Won Arnim's army against the allied
lines on the Flanders battlefield Mon
day afternoon and evening met with
no more success than the enemy's fu-
tile and costly attempts earlier in the
day to break through and capture the
hill positions west of KENNEL.
Not only did the British and French
maintain their positions at virtually all
parts in the face of furious Onslaughts
but during the night they reclaimed
several bits of territory On which the
enemy had succeeded in getting hold.
In front of the defending positions
gray uniformed men lay in great num-
bers, representing the awful price paid
by the Germans.
North of KENNEL the British and
French, countering in conjunction, also
pushed forward somewhat during the
night and bettered their positions. AT
one time Monday the Germans actually
had some men on the lower slopes of
both Mount Rouge and the Scherpen-
berg, after they succeeded in driving a
small wedge into the French line be-
tween these two elevations.
Foe Makes Heavy Sacrifices.
Fierce fighting continued about
Locre all day, and the enemy sacri-
feed great numbers of men in an at
tempt to push through here.
In the meantime the TANKS were
holding brilliantly against successive
shocks. A particularly bitter battle
was waged astride the Kemmel-La
Clytte highway, near the junction of
the French and British. Here the en-
envy tried his favorite trick of dividing
the two forces, but he found no weak
spots.
At Ridge wood, west of Voorme-
zeele, heavy fighting also continued
throughout the day, the Germans los
ing great numbers of men, both
killed and wounded 1t is impossible
10 say how many attacks the enemy
made at this point during the course
of the day; they came forward in
waves throughout long hours.
There was no cessation of the ter
rible battle. The wonder is that the
allied troops were able to hold in the
face of such onslaughts by superior
numbers.
Thus far the German capture of
KENNEL has done them little good, for
the allied artillery has kept the crest
of the hill so smOthered with shell fire
that it has been impossible for the en-
envy to occupy it in force.
French Victors at Noyon.
Paris, May LIN the sector of
iNoyon the Germans in attacks on
Monday made gains in advanced
French trench elements, but later
were driven out and the French re-
established their lines, according to
the official communication issued by
the war office Monday night. In the
region of lanyard there has been a
violent bombardment.
British Regain Town.
London, April 29.-The Germans
made an attack in the afternoon on
the northern side of Flanders sali-
ent and captured the town of Yoor-
mezeele. two miles south of Ypres, but
were driven out at night by counter
attack the war office announces.
The British on Saturday had nearly
800 German prisoners in the cages as
result of other counter-operations
which began Wednesday night. The