The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-05-16
PETAIN FORCES STORM GERMANS
NEAR KENNEL, AND TAKE
IMPORTANT GROUND.
TEUT0N FORT WRECKED
ITALIANS PUT ENEMY TO FLIGHT
AND DESTROY GARRISON AT
COL DELLA ARso.

Rome.-1talian troops stormed Monte
Corno end took about 100 prisoners.
two guns and four machine guns.
With the British Army In Frznce.
May 13.-An important section of
high ground neac the Vyerbeek river.
north of KENNEL. has been captured
by the French in a strong attack.
Both hill No. Al and Goddezone farm,
which lie between La Clytte and Vier-
STRAIT, were stormed and occupied,
thereby giving the French positions
which had been a bone of contention
for many days.
The Germans also received knock
on the southern battle front, where
they made drive in an attempt to
capture defenses on the elevation
south OF Mailly-Raineval.
Rome, May l3-Italian troops Sat
urday stormed an Italian post at Col
Della Orso. on the northern mountain
front. destroying its garrison, the war
office announces. In hand-to-hand
fighting with bayonets and bombs the
Italians captured a machine gun.
Other patrols put enemy detach-
ments to flight with losses. War ma
terials were captured in the Asolone
area. Enemy parties were repulsed
north of Monte Mantello. in the La
garina valley, and to the right ot the
Brenta valley.
Seven hostile airplanes were
brought down.
Paris-The Germans attacked the
French lines Saturday after violent ar
tillery fire southwest of MaillyRaine-
val and gained small section Of ter
ritory. which was retaken by the
French by a brilliant counter attack.
The Germans suffered heavy losses.
London, May 12.-Another week has
passed without a renewal by the Ger
mans of the offensive they began
March 81, which was halted before
Amiens early in April. and came to
a definite pause on its right flank be-
fore the barrier of the Flanders hills,
just as the month of May was open
ing. Ever since the costly defeat Of
assault on the front southwest of
Ypres nearly two weeks ago, the be-
ginning of a new effort by the enemy
either here or on some other front
has been looked for from day to day.
Betterments of the allied position
reported Saturday included an ad-
vance by the French on the Flanders
front, in the neighborhood of Locre,
where the approaches to Mont Rouge.
one of the bulwarks Of the allied line.
have thereby been made more secure.
Far to the south of the Somme, on
the sortherly side of the great Mont
didier salient, French troops likewise
carved sli"e out of German-held ter
ritory, near Orvillers-Sorel, seven
miles southeast of Montdidier.
The British carried out profitable
raidinG operations near the westerly
end of the Lys salient in Flanders.
Troors of the new National Army
of the United States paraded through
London Saturday, three battalions OF
them, to the plaudits of large crowds
and the COM oliments of King George,
Premier Lloyd George and other nota
bles. -
With the American forces on the
French Front, May 11.-American bat
teries bombarded the enemy lines
heavily, the shells causing fires in the
villages OF Cantigny and Mesnil ST.
Georges (west OF Montdidier) held by
the Germans.
German submarine operations from
the harbor of Ostend, Belgium, have
been seriously haInpe.ed for a time, If
not rendered impossible, by a daring
raid upon the harbor by the British
Friday morning.
An official statement issued by the
British admiralty says the channel
leading out of thesinner harbor has
been completely blocked by the hulk
of the old cruiser Vindictive, which
was maneuvered into position under
heavy fire and then sunk by bombs.
Washington, May 11.-ltaly'o contri-
button to the reserve army Gen. Foch
is building up behind the lines in
France for supreme emergency uses
numbers nea.ly a quarter of million
men, official dispatches say, and the
force is being strengthened steadily.