The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-05-02
ALLIED LINE HOLDING
AGAINST BIG DRIVE
flLlN(; Up GERMAN DEAD
AROUND KENNEL.
Germans Show Signs OF Weakening
and COunter-O Offensive May Be-
gin Any Moment.


the battle of Flanders, where the
ground everywhere is covered with
the gray-clad bodies of German dead,
and the British and French are hold
ing securely to all their positions
From Saturday until well into
Mondan night Gen. Won Armim's
forces continued their efforts to
break the British lines, on the Ypres
salient and to press back the British
and French to the southwest, but
everywhere their efforts were fruit
less. True they gained their objec-
tive and again captured Locre, but a
counter-thrust forced them out
again.
In the hilly region just to the
north of Locre the British also
pushed back the enemy at several
points, notably between KENNEL and
La Clytte.
Much of the snap of the German
attacking forces has been absent
from the manoeuvers they have been
carrying out in Flanders under the
stifened line of the Entente troops
To the south near Amiens and TO
the east around Noyon the enemy
likewise has failed in all his attempts
to push farther forward. The British
east of lers-Bretonneux. which
lies directly east of Amiens. have ad-
Vanced their front. and in the Noyon
sector the French have reestablished
their lines. which the Germans pre-
vously had captured from them.
The Germans on various sectors
of the line are still hurling tons of
stee! against the British and French
positions. but the Allied guns are
everywhere answering them.
While the present halt in the bat
tie possibly may indicate the near ap-
proach of the throwing into the
fray OF the great reserve army which
Gen. Foch has gathered, that such is
the intention of the supreme com
mander of the Allied forces has not
become apparent. 1t is not improb-
able, however. that at a meeting of
the inter-allied war council in Paris
Wednesday measures having in view
the turning of the tide of the battle
will be uppermost in the discussions
In all the various war theaters
except the western the situation re-
mains relatively calm so far as fight
ing is concerned. All along the front
in Italy reciprocal bombardments
continue.
With the British Army in France.
April 3O-Cp to noon today the bad
~ punished German troops along
the Flanders front had made no fur
ther attacks against the Allied lines
which held brilliantly throughout
yesterdays intense fighting
The desperate Smashes of Won Ar
MINIS army against the Allied lines
on the Flanders battlefield yester-
day afternoon and evening met with
no more success than the enemy's
futile and costly attempts early in
the day to break through and cap
lure the hill positions west of KEN
mel.
Not only did the British and
French maintain their positions at
virtually all parts in the face of fu-
rious onslaughts. but during the
night they reclaimed several bits of
territory on which the enemy had
u.
Locre had again fallen into Ger
man hands late yesterday, but the
French once more made a dashing
counter drive and thrust the enemy
out of this important place.
The Allied line in Flanders this
morning were to all intents the
same as when the Germans surged
forward yesterday. and in front of
the depending positions gray uni
formed men lay in great numbers.
Fierce fighting continued about
Locre all day and the enemy sacri-
feed great numbers of men in an
attempt to push through here.
In the meantime the flanks were
holding brilliantly against success
siVe shocks. 4 particularly bitter
battle was waged astride the Kem-
mel La Clytte highway, near the
junction of the French and British
Here the enemy tried his favorite
trick of dividing the two 'orces. but
he found no weak spots.
~ Ridgeood. west Of Voc rmezeele
heavy fighting also continued
TIN oushout the day, he ermans
losing srea numbers of me both
killed and wounded. 1t is INN ssiblc
to say how many attacks the enemy
made at this point during the G. urse
of the day.
The German artillery which had
been greatly augmented for this at
tack, pounded the back areas inces-
sanity, and the duel between the
opposing guns OF all calibers from