The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-05-03
eERMANs. BEATEN IN FLANDERS,
SACRIFICE MEN IN VAIN EF-
FORT TO ADVANCE.
LOCRE HELD BY FRENCH
BRITISH WINGS AND FRENCH
CENTER NEITHER BEND
OR BREAK.
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With the British Army In France.
May Again there has come
pause in the battle of Flanders. where
the ground everywhere is covered with
gray-clad bodies of German dead. and
the British and French are holding
securely to all their positions.
From Saturday until well into Mon
day night Gen. Won Arnim's forces
continued their efforts to break the
British lines ON the Ypres salient and
to press back the British and French
from the high ground to the south
west, but everywhere their efforts
were fruitless. True, they gained their
objective and again captured Locre,
but counter thrust forced them out
again and at last accounts the French
were holding the village. In the billy
region just to the north of Locre the
British also pushed back the enemy at
several points, notably between KEN
mel and La Clytte.
Much of the snap of the German at
lacking forces has been absent from
the maneuvers they have been carry.
ing out in Flanders under the stiffened
line of the entente troops which has
been apparent since last Sunday.
To the south, near Amiens, and to
the east, around Noyon. the enemy
likewise has failed in all his attempts
to push further forward. The British,
east of lers-Bretonneux, which lies
directly east of Amiens, have ad.
vanced their front, and in the Noyon
sector the French have re-established
their lines, which the Germans previ-
ously had captured from them.
The Germans on various sectors OF
the line are still hurting tons of steel
against the British and French posi-
lions, but the allied guns are every
where answering them in kind.
While the present halt in the battle
possibly may indicate the near ap-
proach of the throwing into the fray
Of the great reserve army which Gen.
Foch has gathered, that such is the
intention of the supreme commander
of the allied forces has not become ap
parent
| In all the various war theaters ex.
cept the western the situation remains
relatively calm so far as fighting lie
concerned. All along the front in Italy
reciprocal bombardments continue.
and small maneuvers by reconnoiter-
ing parties are being carried out.
In Macedonia the Serbians, in the
region of Monastir, again have entered
an enemy position and annihilated the
| garrison. They also have been sue.
cessful in repulsing an attack by Bull
garians, which had as its object the
recapture of positions near Vetretsk,
taken by the Serbians a week ago.
The successful allied defense made
Monday the bloodiest day yet expert.
enced by the enemy, as attack after
attack was smashed by artillery and
infantry fire The Germans had al.
ready suffered heavily on Sunday.
when their concentrations of troops
were caught and shattered by gunfire.
Their waves Monday were moved
down and the British wings and
French center neither bent nor broke.
London.-The White Guards or Fin.
nish government forces have captured
Viborg. seventy-five miles northwest
of Petrograd. after killing nearly the
entire fprce of G 000 Red Guards az.