Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-19
HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES AND ALLIES GAINING
Enemy Attacks Driven Back With Terrific Loss and British Make Slight Ad- vances Near Wytschaete

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN France. April IS, ? p. m.. (By the As sociated Pressl Ten divisions of German troops were driving today fur iouslv against the British defens9s be tween Givenchy-Les-Labassee and St Nenant in an attempt 10 effect a cross ing Of Lab3ssee canal.
 The British were holding well and fnnicting heavy casualties on the en- emy. according 10 the latest report.
 Co-incidentally with this preteniiods assault. the Germans surged forward further north and again began ham mering at the approaches of Kemmel and neighboring hills.
 Battle in Full Swing
 When the correspondent visited tliis neiehborhood al II o'clock this IGnrn- ing the British artillery was sending back its thunderOus answer 10 the German challenge and the battle was in full swing.
 The attack between Givenchy and St. Venant. began at 9 o'clock after a heavy bombardment by the eneT artillery lastig five hours. Hard fight ing developed along most Of the line. II was especially intense about Given chv and in the Rooecq-L-OcOn sector. The British were facing at least 75.- 900 riflemen. kho were supported by great numbers of guns and from 5e ,OOO 10 60. .0e0 other troops. who go to make up the complements for the infantry.
 The defending forces at Givenchy hsd sustained numerous desperate at tacks and had held their ground dur ing the early hours of the battle. At Hinges Hill. east Of LOcOn, where inc German line bulged out close 70 the canal. the enemy made a particularly determined effort to get across waterway. Twice the German infant ry attacked here, each time coming forward in four waves. Tn one of these drives they succeeded in get ting some bridges across the canal. but the only Germans who crossed were those who ran over and sur rendered The British artillery and machine guns poured a deluge of steel about the frail bridges. and the slaugh- fer Of the opposing troops was heavy. One party Of two hundred Germans advanced at one time with hands over their heads 10 surrender. For some reason they changed their minds abruptly and fled. They were shot 10 pieces as they ran.
 There also vas hard fighting about Pauchaut wood. near the canal. and between RObecq and St. Venant. where the Germans hoped to improve their positions in order to facilitate opera tions 10 the north and south. The attacks in this region were repulsed completely \ concentration of the enemy infantry in CalOnne. west cf St Venant was caught in the British artillery barTage and badly cut up. British troops in the neighbOrhood of Wytsehaete this morning were con- tinuing their all night battle vita the Germans. 4 German attack yester- day resulted in pushing a salient out northwest of the place, but suhse- quent British counter attack again drew the British line around the town and at one time a small body of Brit ish infantry penetrated to the south eastern section.
 The British lost a very small piece of territory between Bailleul and Bran Outre yesterday. but the German at tack here must be recorded as a fail ure. Further westward. hard fighting continued. about iMeteren and this place today apparently was Nc Mans Land A heavy German attack east of Meteren was smashed.
 Just south of this place. near Mer-
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