Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-05-04
FROM WAR
FRONTS IN EUROPE
GERMANS HAVE TAKEN KENNEL
HILL IN FLANDERS FROM THE
FRENCH AFTER HARD FIGHT.
ALLIED LINE UNBROKEN
Heavy Casualties on Enemy Have
Been inflicted, and All Gains
Have Been Made at
FrightfuI Cost.

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Flanders still stands firmly Nowhere
have the Germans been able to make
g further dent in it. Hard fighting
has been in progress on the Ypres sec
tor around VoormeZeele and TO the
south of Lecre. Both places have sew
eral times changed hands, but at last
reports Voormezeele had been recap
tured by the British, but the Germans
had obtained another foorhold In
Lecre
Voormezeele vas taken by the Ger
mans Saturday, but the British, in
night attack, won it back and since
have held it, inflicting heavy casual
ties on the Germans in renewed ef-
forts to take the place.
The Germans have tried at several
points along the front held by the
French to pierce the line, but every
where have been repulsed, notably in
the ST. Mihiel and Luneyill sectors.
where recently American troops were
stationed. Whether the Americans
came into combat with the enemy was
communication.
Aside from these attacks and few
unimportant operations before the
British and Germans, artillery duels
have predominated. The big guns Of
the French and the Germans have
been carrying out mighty reciprocal
bombardments north of the Avre river
and in the region between LassignY
and Noyon.
As a whole, there is no material
change in the situation along the en-
tire front over that of Saturday, and
it is not evident that the Germans are
prepared for the present to resume
the offensive, which has cost them
so dearly in men killed, wounded or
made prisoner. Reports coming By
way of London are to the effect that
in Germany there is much perturba-
ton over the inability of the Teutons
to pierce the allies line, and nervous
ness and depression over the losses
the Germans have suffered.
The operations in the Italian theater
continue of a minor character, con-
sisting of small patrol encounters
and artillery duels of more or less
on various sectors.
Likewise in Macedonia comparative
quiet prevails, although there has been
shelling of opposing po-
sitions by the artilleries and aerial
bombing craft. Near Vetrenik the
5erbians carried out successful at
.ack against the Bulgarians and an
the section they held.
Nothing new has come through
either in the way of confirmation or
1enial of the reports in circulation
that counter revolution had
broken out in Petrograd and that the
Grand Duke Alexis Nikolaivitch had
,een proclaimed emperor of Russia.
KENNEL Hill, although defended By
he gallant French infantry to the
leath against four German divisions
md mountain troops, finally was over
covered.
This isolated mound was pounded to
.arth and is a mass of splintered tim
,er, and from the flats of Ypres to
he ruins of BailIeul was shaken by
trugglers of the contending armies
nd guns.
The enemy is now striking toward
next in the chain OF
round filled with guns behind his
lewly-intrenched divisions.
Long-range guns search out remote
illages and country roads. 1t is
erious battle, in which the Fourth
ierman army is making the greatest
fort. Although the French bore the
runt of the attack at KENNEL, the
british troops have been heavily en-
aged on either SIDE, especially or
heir left on the lower slopes of the
idge around Wytschaete and in the
roken woodland toward the Ypres
anal
The statement is made in the, first
,sue of the Shanghai Gazette, which
as bade its appearance under the
of Eugene Chen, that the
hinese government has agreed to
ew demands made by Japan, whlek
re of such a nature that the country
as virtually been. turned over to ths
apanese.
British naval forces Tuesday raided
le German submarine bases of Os-
md and Zeebrugge, the admiralty an
ounces. Five old cruisers, which ha&
zen filled with concrete for use in
locking the channels, were run
ground. blown up and abandoned b1
leir crews.