The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-04-25
News From Battle Front Best
For Month AS Ludendorff
Finds Offensive Petering.
HAIG WINS If He HOLDS
Germans Rave Let Up In Attack
Against Both British and French
~-Ludendorf Seems to Be TAX
ing Stock Of Situation.

London, April 22.-The best news
for a month comes from the battle
front.
The situation has been steadily
improving and today Haig Is able to
report his lines are intact, that the
Germans have stopped their hammer
ing tactics and that the British hold
the hills covering the northward adj
vance to the coast.
II Is safe 10 say that the first phase
Of the battle or Armentieres is peter
ing ont, LndendorR e taking stock
Of the situation and he is finding that
the great thrust for the coast has
losses as well as gains.
Great Britain Bucks Up.
Great Britain has bucKed up She
views the future confidently; she be-
lieyes her gallant forces have wealth
cred the worst OF the hurricane and
that death aud destruction are what
Ludendorf has gained for his invest
fent of $780, 900 casualties and gigan-
tic supplies OF munitions.
He has driven the British off hard
earned Passchendaele ridge, he has
made a deep indentation TO the west
OF A~rmentieres, he has captured per-
haps 10000 prisoners, and a hun
dred or so guns, and forced the de-
struction OF a large quantity OF stores,
but his effort for a break through
has succeeded 10 better than Haig s
long campaign for Passchendaele
ridge. Both fell short OF their real
objective. Both are so-called NEAR
victories"
L~udehdoTn troops are farther
from their bases and are forced to
run their communications through
the barren. shell torn areas East OF
Ypres and west Of Armentieres.
Time LudendorH's Enemy.
Time Is HaIgs ally and Luden-
DORIS great enemy. The French re-
serves are now where they are most
needed and Lndendorff has lost SONS
ri the Initiative. Tho Germans art q
little nearer the coast. but nothing
matters N they are held where they
now stand. LEdendorr 10 beaten un-
less nc advances. Haig wins II he
holds.
No sane person believes the Ger
mans have not moro powerful blows
10 deal. no observer IS so optimistic.
as to forecast a sudden turning Of
The tide in favor OF the Allies. The
fighting season has just opened and
Ludandorn has figured on a long
Rain, sleet and a bitterly cold wind
are driving across the northern plains
or France. but when the weather
changes there Is sure 10 be a resnmp-
tion OF operations on a gigantic scale.
in the last ereat e@. s Be-
tween Robecq add Givenchy, on a
ic-nlils stretch. $4,000 bayonets were
employed, but the British bent them
sssks ezaetihE a heavy toll and yield.
ing uniy u few outpost positions.
Allies Pour Fire From Hills.
The same story comes from the
battle front south OF KENNEL, which
broken before reaching the Brit
fish lines. From the hills forming the
spectacular Armentieres amphitheter,
the British and Trench guns are pase
Ing high explosives among the enemy
forces.
On the somme lront, Arras remains
enc Of the chief enemy ob3eesirss and
a thrust from the southeast Is ex-
10 be one OF the early develop
meuts. Another probable point OF
activity Is the Montdfdier region,
where the massins of troops and guns
has been going on for several days
Though the situation generally is anx-
ious, II Ia infinitely better than a
week ago.
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