Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-04-20
The GREAT GERMAN
DRIVE IS CHECKED
THOUSANDS OF GERMAN DEAD
ATTEST FIERCE FIGHTING OF
BRITISH, WHO HOLD FIRM.
AMERICAN LINE HOLDS
British Commanders Orders to Give
No More Ground Is Being Car
ried Out-AlIied Line
Holds Firm.
The entire allied line In Belgium ana
France is holding firm.

The entire allied line in Belgium ana
France is holding firm.
| Nowhere have the Germans been
able, notwithstanding the great num-
bers of men hurled against it, especial
ly in that portion of Flanders where
the British are holding forth, to gain
an inch of ground. Field Marshal
Haig's order that no more ground be
ceded is rigidly being complied with,
as is attested by the thousands Of
| German dead now lying before the
British positions southwest of YpreS.
where it is the ambition of the high
| German command to break through
| and envelop Field Marshal Haig's
| forces and gain an open highway to-
ward the English channel
Northwest of St Michel the Ameri-
can troops have been compelled to
Withstand a series of persistent as
saults, surpassed in intensity only by
those delivered by the Germans
against the British in Flanders. The
hon0rs at the end rested with the
Americans, who met and decisiveIy de-
feated the enemy.
Along the front held by the French
Sunday saw nothing of greater impor-
tance than reciprocal bombardments
on various sectors. Likewise in Italy
the big guns were doing most of the
work, although at several points
enemy patrols attempted to carry out
diversions, but met with no success.
At Neuve Elglise, northwest of Ar
mentieres, where the Germans are en-
deaVoring to drive their wedge in far
ther in order to outflank Ypres, the
heaviest fighting has taken place.
Throughout Saturday night and Sun
day battles of the most obstinate char
acter took place, the Germans throw
ing thousands of men into the ATTACK,
notwithstanding the wastage in killed
and wounded. Several times the vii
lage changed hands, but at last re-
ports the British were still in posses
sion of it and holding tenaciously un-
der repeated German onslaughts.
Nowhere along the eight-miie front
where the Germans are trying to
drive through between Wulverghem
and Meteren have the Germans met
with anything but repulse. Their
losses have been enormous. On no
sector have they been able to break
through, and for the moment at least
there seems to be justification for the
hope that the turn in the tide of the
battle is at hand.
Documents captured from German
prisoners show conclusively that the
great new offensive of the Germans
was launched with the determination
of separating the British and French
armies and crushing the British.
OF the thirty-six prisoners taken by
American troops in the fighting on
Friday northwest of Tou1, during
which two German attacks in force
were repuIsed with heavy casualties
to the enemy. twelve have since died
Of their wounds. The American troops
also captured two German machine
guns, besides a quantity of war ma
terials.
The enemy front lines had been de-
stroyed by shell fire. and during Fri
days attack the Americans temporar
ily abandoned their own front line,
allowed the Germans to enter it, ar
then forced them to engage in hand-
-o-hand fighting in the open. in which
he American troops greatly exeeIIed-