The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-12

HOLDS FIRM
Germans Moved Down by Canadian
Machine Guns, Shift Attack to French
Sector and Are Again Thrust Back.
Great Flanders Battle Still RACES
Unabated

London April 1.-THE battle of Armentiere which began
AmeneTes itself has been abandoned but the chief objective
of the foe Wytchaee ridge is firmly held by the British.
Incessant German frontal assaults that powerful
have brought the assaans nothing but heavy losses At the
little of Hoebeke the nohward their onslaughts met
the fate The battle is still in full swing
White sheet ridge'-an almost ronical surname
that the famous range bathed in boodwas late
today still firmly in Hag's hands Grown Prince Rup
precht shock troops had nbbled away slices of the
slopes last night and early today but the Canadians in bril-
liant bayonetted these invaders and recovered
every foot of the ridge Hg hold at all costs for
with its fall his whole Arras Ypres ridge must cave in
The German wedges north and south the Lys have been
pushed further ahead Amenteres hopeessy oufanked and
reekng with poisonous fumes has been abandoned by the Brit
sh the latter holding the Teuons
this line southeast Ypres Wyschaete Wytschete ridge
Ploegser wood steenwerck Estaires Lestram Gvenchy
Many determined counter attack launched by the
British IN the last wenyfour hours driving the German ad
vanced forces out of villages they had penetrated the initial
onrush
At this moment word comes of sudden switching the
from the ridge the Hoebecke Ypres front
Hoebecke essential the Teutons their effort
both Ypres and the Wychaete range It lies three and
half miles southeast of Ypres and about three miles northeast
of Wytschaete village The little just below the Ypres
Confines canal Not far the north lies the powerful hill CO.
There the Canadian machine guners have been waiting for
Just such chance German storming columns attacking Ho
lebecke deliberately dashed into murderous fire both from
Hill so and the White sheet ridge
From distant Tou comes the cheering news of
scale American Eight hundred select Ger
troops rushed into what had been planned be big raid
It smothered in the American fire Not single American
casualty occurred. Two Germans captured.
In two other sectors the French front Americans
operating with the French frustrated German raidng enter
prise the of Souan where the Germans are only little
than four miles from the verdun railway suppes
and in the Chemin DIES Danes sector northwest Of Rheims
The aim of the German drive Flanders stands fully
revealed Hlndenburg proceeding in almost identical
fashion of his campaigns especially northwestern
Russia Strategic railway center sand subsequently the lines
that radiae from them form his chief detectives Cripple the
enemys communication system is his "eitmotif in this
whole mammoth offensive
Having parayzed the Amen sectors of the Calais Paris
railways he purposes put of commission the supply
lines feeding the British northern armies channel ports
The Berlin statement that up Tuesday night 5000 ps
and 100 guns had been taken in the Ameneres did
surprise since Ma General Maurice had ad
med considerable losses suffered owing to the German
converng blow which fell heavily upon the Portuguese
and the British tanks