The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1918-05-02
Foe Is Beaten Back Near Ypres;
French Troops Retake
Positions.
PETAIN REGAINS VITAL LINE
Hundreds Of Germans Are Captured
by the British in Big Battle at
Voormezeeie, Two Miles
South OF Goal.

reCiplureu POSITIONS from IOcre TO La
/ Clyte. In Flanders, west of Mount
| KENNEL, II Is announced officially.
The fighting on the Flanders front
north of the Lys was very severe. The
enemy's advance was held at all points.
Heavy losses were inflicted on the
/ Germans.
Continuing their counter-attacks on
| the front east Of Amiens the allies
have gained further advantages in the
Hangard-Villers-Br etonneaux sector.
The Germans made n heavy attack
on the front south Of Ypres. There
was a long battle for voormezeele,
two miles south OF Ypres, which the
British retained, taking hundreds of
/ prisoners.
French Stop Attack.
Paris, April pa German attack
near Themes, on the front southeast
of Amiens, was broken at night. the
war office announces. Artillery fight
/ Ing continues on the front between
Nillers-Bretonneux and lanyard
Fighting Is Desperate.
Fighting Of the most desperate char
acter attends the German attempt to
I enlarge on the capture of Mont Kem-
mel, on the Flanders front, as the
FrancO-British troops strive to hold the
enemy In check. On the vital sec
| tor of the Picardy front east of Am
lens the allied soldiers have driven the
Germans from more of the ground they
gained earlier I'm the week.
| The fall of Mont KENNEL is a seri-
Gus blow TO the security OF the salient
about Ypres. but TO gain a complete
victory there the Germans must strike
quickly. This they are trying to do.
while the allied troops resist strenu-
ously. While Kennels capture by
the enemy does not mean the imme-
date evacuation of Ypres, military OBJ
servers say, IL does menace the Brit
ish positions there, and further re-
/ tirement in the next few days Is not
unlikely.
Southwest of Ypres the Germans
are now on line running from the
northwest Of Bailleul through Locre
| to La Clyte and eastward to the Ypres-
/ Confines canal. Field Marshal Haig
admits retirement along the canal
and Berlin claims the occupation OF
| ST. Eloi, two and one-half miles south
of Ypres.
Terrific Fight at KENNEL.
| KENNEL hill did not fall without
struggle. and IL remains a monu-
ment TO the bravery of a French regi-
ment, which was cut off from the allied
/ line but held out until surrounded on
all sides by the Germans. The ultimate
fate Of the French defenders, fight
ing tremendous odds, is not known TO
the allies. Franco-British troops at
tempted strong counter-attacks to re-
take the hill, but were driven back
by the Germans, who are using nine
divisions, 10000 men, on front of
about eight miles.
The German attack I'm the north, I'M
less II can gather much greater mOmen-
tum. does not yet threaten the Belgian
line from DiXmude to the sea. al
though IL does affect the British about
Ypres.
The enemy must advance still far
Their before the Belgians will be com
PEELED to give up the historic line Of
many months.
Successes We're gained by allied
troops In cOunter-attack south of the
Somme from Nillers- Bretonneux 10
south of Hnngard
German Officers chagrined.
With the British Army in France,
April 29.-Among the prisoners cap
tured near Villers- BretOnneux were
several young officers who gave their
opinion OF things In general with re-
at the fiasco which the Germans had
made of the Villers- Bretonneux af-
fair. Some had unkind things 10 say
OF the higher command.
A large part of their trouble the Of
ficers laid to the fact that the British
held a hill north of the village which
gave the defenders full observation on
the Germans for many miles. This
hill, known as hill 104, lies close TO
the front line and commands a wide
sweep OF country. From II the Brit
ish gunners have played havoc with
the German troops and transports.
The prisoners said that for three
days prior to the attack they had vir-
tually nothing 10 eat because the food
trains were smashed by shell fire and
kitchens which tried 10 cook what food
there was on hand were continually
being demolished. As result the Ger
mans had little love for their task
when the time came TO attack.
The Germans were more or less
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