The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-13
HEAVY FIGHTING
SPREADS TO ALL
PARTS OF Line
German Assaults Are Renewed
Against Americans.
BOche Gun Hits Rheims Cathe-
dral Squarely.
RHEIMS REPORTED ON FIRE
@funs Press in Supreme Effort
Against British.
Haig Says, sour Backs Are to
the WALL"
BRITISH HOLD EVERYWHERE
Most Trying Days of War just
Ahead.
Germany May Gamble Fleet in
Offensive.
BRITISH HOLD EVERYWHERE
Most Trying Days of War JUS
Ahead.
Germany May Gamble Fleet in
Offensive.

Paris, April 13.-''The Germans
have renewed their attacks in the
Apremont forest Cin the American
T~oul sector)." the French war office
announced today.
Americans, cooperating with US,
fought vigorously. breaking down
most of the enemy's attempts. Forty
enemy prisoners have been taken in
this region since yesterday.
Slight British Advance.
London April 13.-The British are
holding at all points on the Flanders
fighting front, and in one place ad-
vanced slightly. Field Marshal Haig
reported today.
We advanced slightly and took a
! few prisoners in the neighborhood of
Festubert." Haid said.
East of LOGON the enemy, in a
str' ng attack, succeeded in entering
the line at certain points but were
driven out and a second attack was
beaten off
I;heims on Fire.
Paris, April 13.-The city of Rheims
Is in flames. The French are attempt
ing to limit the burning area, working
under heavy bombardment.
London. April 13-German gunfire
has scored Il direct hit on the Rheims
cathedral
The British continue to hold Bailleul
il was learned here today. Reinforce
ments are strengthening their lines.
but the situation is still critical
American Help Counts.
Indications that the German drive
in the Armentieres region is losing
some of its fcrce are contained in to-
days official news from the battle
lines. simultaneously American help
Is counting strongly in the holding of
the long Franco Belgian front at other
points, notab bly, IT. the region east of St.
" mo tf-r-
again given a splendid account of
themselves in hard fighting in Apre-
mont forest.
The Germans last night returned to
the attack IN the French positions in
Ir'tcle wood in the Apremont region
! Ahere French and American troops
yesterday rel ulsed a German thrust
The Americans Cnce more displayed 8
vigorous resistance and in conjunction
with the French beat off he Ger
mans. throwing them out by counter
attack from the one point where al
enemy footing was obtained
Drive for Railway Center
In the Flanders fighting. the Ger.
mans apparently are making theil
strongest effort in their drive fol
Hailleul. the important railway poin
northwest of Armentieres, feeding the
Messines ridge section.
In the sector south of the Somm,
British and French troops by counter
attacks drove out the Germans from
Hangard which they penetrated YES
terday.
British Line Iolding.
Haig today reported heavy fightin:
continuing around Wulverghen, tw,
miles ives of MeSsines and Neuve
EEise. q mile and half southwes
of WalvergheT. This indicates thu
Germans have made no great prog
ress III this neighborhood in the las
tWenty-four hours The Iepulse q
an @ncmy attack ives. of Merville, tel
shows the British are holding there
also
The German attempt to reacl
Amiens from Hangard- -Santerre
ten miles to the southwest is beinj
frustrated by combined French an
BritIsh forces, Haig said. He re
ported increased enemy cannonadin
nortl of the Somme, probably aroun,
NSilhert
One Great Battle Line
The west front, from the Ypres
Oomines canal southwark to the Ois,
has now practically been welded int
once continuous battle line. This
10 miles in an air line but along tn
ramifications of the German advanc
it probably measures twice that dis
tance.
The hardest fighting still continue
on the new front in Flanders wher
the enemy is trying to reach BaiIIeI
and Bethune. In Picardy, however
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