The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-30
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NOOrneZeeIe the region the making their heaviest strokes thrown back brilliantly Els peciay bitter the fighting in and around the villages Of VOormezeele and Locre
 enemy extended attacks to the north of Ypres against the Begans along the Yser But he is meeting with more success than elsewhere Flanders the Began hurng the Germans from positions they had occupied by counter at acks
 Ypres yet attacked directly from the east but from the intensity of the enemy assaults south and southwest 1t evidently the German desire most to take the hill positions west of Mont Kemme To hold these hills would not only menace the entire Allied position Flanders and eastward toward Dun kirk virtually compel the evacuation of Ypres
 German progress westward from Voormezeee would if carried any deph ouank the hill positions west of Mont Kennel which must be taken separately The attacks against the French at Locre attempt get between Scherpenberg and Mont Rouge and outlan them done at Mont Kem mel Held by the French at Locre the Germans essayng frontal attacks against Schepenberg and Mont Rouge but these also have been disastrous.
 This morning the Allied lines Flanders all n- tents the when the sugd forward yesterday In front of the defending positions gray uniformed lay great numbers representing the awful price paid by the Ger mans.
 At one time yesterday the Germans appear actually to have had the lower slopes of both Mont Rouge and the Scherpenberg after they had succeeded in driving small wedge into the French lines between these two elevations
 The situation appeared critical but the French at lacked deermnedy and reesabshed virtually all the old po sitions.
 The artillery increasingly busy this morning from Vimy northward
  little good for the Allied artillery has kept the crest smot- cred in shells that has been impossible for the enemy cupy it in force1
 The correspondents with army agree that the enemy yesterday suffered nothing disastrous de- feat It the first phase of the battle in his desperate tempt to capture the hills held by the Allies which endanger possession of Mount Kemme The Germans have probably used 13 divisions from the east of Ypres souhward of battle with two norhward and the violence the gun fire greater unceasng period of the war.
 The successful Allied defense made the day boodest yet undergone by the enemy attack after attack by artillery and infantry fire The Germans already suffered heavily Sunday when their concentration troops caught and shattered by gunire yesterday moved down and the British wings French center neither broke bent I The London office statement follows
 Successful counter attacks carried out by French troops yesterday afternoon and evening the enemy the mander of the ground gained by them in the morning neghborhood of Locre and captured number of prisoners The whole village is in the hands of allies
 After the heavy repuse inflicted the enemy yesterday the night passed comparatively quiet northern battle 3 front.
 'We advanced line slightly during night east of : Vi1ers Bretonneux.
 On the remainder of the British artillery activity continues on both sides in certain sectors"
 The Paris office statement follows:
 The artillery battle waged with considerable violence north and south of the Avre the sector south bank of the Oise French patrols along this front and brought back 15 prisoners
 "On the right bank of the Mouse Verdun fron and in up per Asace German attachments repused by our fire leaving prisoners in hands without obtaining result"