The Wingham Advance, 1918-04-25, Page 7f
AWES AIDING
THE BOISHEVIKI
m WOO.. •
Anglo-rreneli time Fight.
ing in the Arctic.
Opposing he Finnish White
Guard.
'eloscow, April ea Britisb, anti
French, troeps have been lanaed at
alourmanek, on the uortheast, COaat
Kola peninsula in the Arctic Oceen,
to reinferee a British marine detach-
ment set astore several weeks ago.
The Entente Allied troopus are ce-
operating with Bolshevik' rorces in
protecting the Mournmn Coast and the
railway against attaelis that are beiug
Made by Flemish White (Wards.
Ruesian Red Guards are also acting
with Britisb ead Feench troops under
the erection of the elournian Soviet
Wer Council, which couwists of one
Englishmaa, one Frenchman Ana one
Russian.
Flanisit White Guards have attack-
ed the liourrnan railway near Kelm
270 miles south of Mourrnansk, and
200 milea west a Archaugel, but
have been repulsed by the Entente
forces. The liolsheviki and foreign
troops are acting In harmony and re-
sidents along the White seacoast ap-
preciate (hat the Entente allied ass's-
tance is baying the district from lso•
Wien and domination by the White
Guard. .
No previous mention of the fact
that British marines had been sent
ashore in Northern Russia to co-
operate with the Russian Belsheviki
troops has been permitted by the
censor. Recently Japanese and
British marines were 1andet1 at
Vladivostok, the Pacific port of Rus-
sia.
The British and French, troops
which have been landed to reinforce
the British marinee are protecting
railroads from the interior of Rus-
sia to tbe main sea eutlets in the
north—the ports of Illourmansic and
'Archangel. At both these bans
large quantities of supplies, some ,:of
which had been shipped froM the
United Stetes before the Russian
revolution, have been Resembled in
much the same manner as war ma-
terial has been. concentrated .at
Vladivostok from ships traveling •by
way of the Pacific Ocean; from
American ports,
• In attacking the Rusidan railroad
near Kern. on the west eoast of the
White Sea, -the Finnish Waite
Guard. which recently has received
the support of the German authori-
tier\ iintet have pushed acros$ the
Finnish border and penetratdd Rus-
sian territory for a olistance of 150
mllea in their efforts to sever coin-
namication by rail with Mournmesk.
Archangel 13 situatedon the east
coast of the White Sca, 160 miles
east ot Kele.
. NADIANs
gA
. Many Distinguished Con-
duct Medals Awarded
•
POI' Great Gallantry in
Action.
Loudon, April 2a—Varied stories
of Canadian gallantry are told in
connection Nvith the confermentof
'the Distinguished Conduct Medal:
Sergeant-Major J. Turner and sew.
J. 'Watson, both or the Meihcal
Corps, led bearma under fire wita
-total disregard of personal danger,
earning the admiration of- all.
Serge A. Powell, of the kinglet:ere,
when :a mine _shatt *yeas blown in,
burying the men, opened a passage
and rescued all five /under heavy
fire. Sergt. W. A. Millen undoubt-
edly preveuted panic by steady -lag
the men during hostile *Melling.
Corp. V. P. Melvin, Artillery, db.
played great courage in taking un
ammunition under heavy fire. and
kept the guns In action. During a
severe* gas bombardment Sergt. 11.
'W. Langdon deliberately walked
over -the open eo draw the enemy's
fire so they marar be deriniteler
hmated; 'Serge, E. 3. Field, although
wounded early in action, remaiued
on duty urging his men forward;
Sergt. G. Young never failed in de-
livering rations even ender the
most difficult eendi Hons.
It its, -striklug to rotice bow often
otticial partiettlars speak of individ.
ual soldiers whofie cheerful example
maintain the spirits of their com-
rades. This was particularly re.
ferred to in the conferment of a
medal upon Corp. 3, 1). AIN, of the
Mounted feet1e3, SergteMajor S. C.
Evans, Artillery; Sapper J. W.
Relines; E.'eout-Sergt. .1. L. Mac-
Coubrey, Mounted. 11111es; Sergt.
-Major D. M. Ttobineon, lefentry;
and Sergt. 3. A. Ware. eatillery.
Colenels Thomas Anderson and
Robert Clark were invested at Buck-
ingham Palace with the Distinguished
Service Order. 1
For maintaining communieations
Under heavy fireSergt. 11, M. I3ennett,
la. J. Bridgewater, C. L. Cooling and
W. 0. Simpeon, of tho Canadian len-
egineeree are awarded the distinguivh-
ed Coudect Medal. Serge. J. Goulding,
of -the Railway troops, is likewise de-
torated for coetaee and roolnese in
cainpleting work when shelled. Sergt.
C. IL Olson, of the Railway Troope,
rece1%'C medar for cor these under
. direet heavy eliciting. l'ergt. II. T.
Carter, who whoa a carrying party
round thernselvee under heavy- fire and
were obliged ta.abandon boxes of
beiabs, -gathered "anotlter party which
gathered all theabembs, platting Diem
- in Menne
Oatber Tot11)lent,9 were, Company
Sergteelttaere It. Adam, C. Daher. it.
Blain, G. W. Ddrian, E. Evans, C. L
Howard, A. Macaulay, J. elullinere,1
Shen alai J. t. Wyatt.
1N1'. womews APPEAL
Myrtle. ewitecatettel Cable
International Conference of Women,
compriaing for the most part women
resident la Switzerland, has decided
to address to the woinen of all the
eMintries of the world a request for
collective action for pettee, the free.
dont dna indeperitlenca of all nations,
International concord on, woman suf-
frage. A
tahint the hiquitativeepalefett,
:1130 a talker. ealorrtee.
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All Signs Point to a New
German Drive at. Any
Moment.
ALLY UNITY
•
Tommies and Poilus 'Work
Together Magnifi-
cently.
With the -Britisa Army hi France,
April 21.—This a as the third of cone
Paratively quiet day's on the British
front, .but while no further German
attacks had materMlized up to' shortly
after noon, it would be unsate to
predict that Sunday would end as it
began. New enemy moves were -ex-
pected at any moment both aloug tee
northern front and in flea &elute re.
gion, They may not develop teeday,
but they are written large on the pro-
gramme of bnpending cvents.
There is no disposition to quarrel
with the enemy on account of Fri-
day's and Saturday's lull. Time has
worked to the advantage of the allies,
and their position aas contheaally.
grewn better.
In the northern field, a well as in
the south, French troops have taken
their places beside the British, and
the Allied forces are not unwilling for
a renewal of the crucial cortalat of the
war, As a matter of fact, French re-
inforcements have been in the Bailleul
and Kemmel regions for some days,
and their coming brought new life to
the valiant, but dog-tired men who
had been struggling againsteettch
great odds since April 9. —
Premier Clemenceau visited the allied soldiers this morning and passed
cheering words to them. The French
statesman was greatly pleased with
conditions in the north, He said so
and he looked it. He also was high
in his praise tor the magniticent de-
fenee the British made before the ale
rival of French resistance. He re-
viewed0one battle -worn divIsien of
British troops, which ha,d finally been
enabled to leave the line for rest af-
ter the French arrived.
COME IN GOOD TIMES
M. Clemenceau appreciated them and
they liked him, as they told him
when they gave three ringing cheers
for Franca and for Clemenceau;
The troops and officers of the two
flags already are working to-gether;
as though they always had been do
-
Mettle same. One might have expecit-
ed difficultite f language, bet at.
so. Some ungrammatical French is be-
ing spoken on one sale, and there are
certain peculiarities on the English
talk on the other side, but between
the men they are getting aleag fa-
mously, and there is no hitch in the
proceedings. The best part of it is
that they are thoroughly enjoying the
association.
The Poilus and Tommies met one
another like long -lost brothers, and
are carrying on like comrades of a
hundred battles. They are fine fellows,
these French •soldiers; The corres-
pondent Watched them as they
Paesed northward over the British
roads, and no more magnificent troops
have been seen on the front than
these clean-cut chaps, who melte love
-to the village ,lassies like courtiers
and fight like devils. It is not amass to
say that they were welcome when
they arrived, for the enemy was press-
ing the tired British with tremen-
dous forces.
They came in good thne. They get';
Into action in the region of Kemmel
on the 1Sth, which was the day of
their arrival, and within a couple of
hours or their advent they perforafed
a gallant feat which won for them the
undying gratitude of the British divi-
sion which was lmidlng the hill.
FIGHT .AT DONEGAL FARM.
The British had a severe time at
Keinmel on April 17. Some of them
were in the defences on the hill and
others had been drawn up about the
southern base of an elevation and
told that they meet hold this line at
all cots. The German hordes swept
forward against them in wave, • but
they clung to their posts throughout
bitter hours. Tbe positions about
were retained, but a little
eouth of tae hill ahe, Germans puellea
in and surrounded' Donegal farm,
which wao belling held' by a subaltern
end twelve Tommie,.
When the French came up on the
18th Donegal Was No Alan's Land,
and no word had been reeved con.
cerning its little garrison. The British
%ere not at the ruoment.in sufficient
torem to bring relief, The French watt.
ed only tole -ear the, story of the situa.
tion before organizing a bid raid,
It was then about dusk. An attack
on Donegal wee immediately carried
out, and the pones found the subaltern
end his dozen men dead,- and about
thetn were the, bodies of fifty Gerntans,
The Prenzh came back with word
of the situation and brought with
them a mitieber of German prisoners
from iseeend the farm, This piece, of
chivalry spread among the British and
drove the, entering wedge for the
frieadehip whielt followed, .
The situation last nightalong the
front tees generally quiet, and un.
elumged. There was theeusual artil•
Mrs- firing, but most of lite infantry.
actiene were email operationa. Intring
the night the 'British pushen forward
and in.proved their line east of Riez
du N.:!age, and they also carried out a
b:AViittetory movement , Iiinges
Brehm, ;tooth of Pacand forest.
ON PREZENBERG SPUR.
An attempted eneltly advance
'neatest the British positions on Fre-
sentx.rt, emir, northearit et Yeres, was
If.d by artillery fire. Ease Of Arras
the kli'DMattit tried to rush some gnu.
pito width , were, captureit by the
ierittee, yeeterday, hut the attack was
repulsed.
Partite: of the enemy are continttallY
trying to NE t ever the abandoned area.
01 Yin•ea, but up to the prepent
these atitiul.to have been stopped by
artillery ft() .inaeliine.gun•fire,
The airmen emitinue to do great
damage over the, enemy areas. Friday
night d1rr l.fts were Obtaihed With
bontee on ttree trains standing 111 the
ChO111110:4 ,•tital, and turamMunitien
train at Res epee we»
IINITSrAT,4.ttBATTLE. •
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ANADAS .PRIDE
CANADIANS have good reason to be proud of the position Canada
holds in the world today. This pride is justified by the activities of
her people, by her unlimited natural resources, by her splendid institu-
tions, and particularly by her Industries.
Facts about the immensity of
selme Canadian industries would
astonish most people.
These industriee, wizen viewed
in the light of comparison with
other countries, are simply trb-
rnendous.
The growth of any industry is
limited to the number of people
it can serve, and that is a fact not
often properly appreciated when
Canadian industries are compared
to similar enterprises in, say, the
United States.
For example: the population
of the United States exceeds
ioo,oco,000. Oppottunity for in-
dustries there is almost unlimited.
In comparison, Canada with its
seven million population is a small
country—yet in spite of this com-
paratively small population, Can-
ada possesses' several industries
which in actual .size rank ,among
the biggest in the world.
In shoemaking, one Canadian
concern has developed a volume
of business and a service to the
Canadian people which is not
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equalled by another Vhoe manu-
facturer anywhere in the world.
• This concern, if located in the
United States, would rank as one
of the twelve largest out of some
two thousand shoe manufacturers
there.
While the • sales of the largest
shoe manufacturer in the United
States—selling to the American
people—do. not exceed twenty-five. dr°
cents per capita per year,
the sales
of Ames Holden McCready to the
Canadian people last year were
approximately , eighty eents per
capista.
In a compirative sense, there-
fore, this Canadian concern is
greater than the foremost Ameri-
can shoe manufacturer in the
United States,
Thus Ames Holden McCready
truly merit the distinction of their
title 'Shoemakers to the Canadian
Nation."
Just imagine for a moment the
,enormous work of supplying a large
portion of Canada's 7,000,000 peo-
ple with its boots and shoes:
—it requires—huge up-to-date fac-
tories equipped with the most
modern machinery able, to turn
out 8,000 pairs of shoes a day,
—it requires—a variety of nearly
Soo different styles to meet the
requirements of all classes of peo-
ple, for different grades, shapes and
kinds of shog.
—it requires—the maintenance of
six large distributing branches in
principal cities from coast to coast,
and in these are carried 'over a •
million. dollars worth of stock,
ready for quick delivery to re-
tailers.
—it requires—sixty travelling sales-
men to call on the retail trade,.
because out of approximately
io,00a retail dealers who sell shoes
in Canada, more than 5,000 handle'
A.H.M. Shoes.
—it requires—many other details
of organization and equipment,
but this brief outline will give you
some slight idea of the part that
this great shoe concern is playing in
the business of supplying footwear
to the Canadian people.
You will be interested in these facts; because the next time you buy footwear
bearing the A.11,111.4rand, you will know that they are the product of a large and
efficient organigation making shoes which will in every case give you the greatest,
value for your money.
AMES HOLDEN McCREADY
LIMITLD
"ShOenZakerS to the Nation"
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British and a Gernian plane. The
aviatone engaged in a heated exchange
of machine-gun bullets as they •circled
and swerved 'about each other. At
times they were nearly touching as
they manoeuvred for positions. Fin-
ally, the German, in a mad sweep to
get where he could operate his gun
'to .better advantage, •crashed into the
:British pilot, The collision was ter-
-rifle, and both machines swirled
• earthward in fiamee.
The Germans continue to shell and
bomb Amiens, Many buildings in the
city have 'bee ndemolished, and the
famous cathedral has suffered con-
siderable damage, mainly from broken
windows. The detonations of bombs
or shells dropped in the square front-
ing the cathedral have destroyed a -
large amount of stained glass, dating
back a hundred years or more, and
irreplaceable. Some cities have been
broken from the walls of the edifice,
bu up to yesterday the building itseit
was little hurt,
WORK OF MEDICAL CORPS,
No branch of tite service has had
'a harder time or done • meat brlhhhant
work since the inception of the of-
fensive than the Medical ceeps.
When th3 Germans eurged forward
over their wide •bettle front and struck
deep into the allied territory, they
overran places, where for a long time
British advonced casualty clearing sta-
tions had been estiebliehed. It is an
ardaous task to MOVO a field hospital,
wIth its heavy equipment, to say
nothing of hundreds of wounded men,
Who almost always fill the wards. But
while some of the weighty material
wits lost, these hospitals were pulled
back, and not only that, but the Medi-
cal Corps, so to seeak, fought a rear-
guard action by establishing emer-
geacy stations as they retired and
took tare of newly wounded, tvho wore
coatitually streaming back from the
neighborhood's battle lines.
•
BRITISH AKE SMALL
BET rEEN ARRAS AND ALBERT
Hindenburg, Blocked in
is MI
Renewal of Heavy As
BRITISII REPORT.
London, April 21,—The British
troops near Robecq, north-west of
Bethune, to -day drove out the Ger-
mans front some of their advanced
positions, according to Field Mar-
shal Haig's statement, issued by the.
War Office. They also advanced
region. Aside from artillery en-
•
• soath of the Scarpe in tho Arras
•
'CANADIAN GUNS
RAINING DEATH
fialgymeartotsngthgee fee;oaisit lLtlieidaoyth other
ac -
Each Effort He Makes
, I text of the statement follows:
. SUNDAY NIGHT.—"There was lo -
idle cal tighting to our advantage this
• morning in the neighborhood . of
Robecq, where the enemy's troops
• were successfully ejected from some
sault Momentarily Ex- artillery has shown considerable
of their advanced posts. The hostile
e tivity in this area.
pectet1-4he Objectives
London, April 21e—Renewal of
heavy fighting is momentarily look-
ed for along the weetern battlefront,
not only on the Flanders line, but to
the south, in the Somme area, where
the Gernmns made their bid for n
quick victory last month and failed in
their larger purpose of dividing the
British and French armies at a single
stroke.
British forces advanced slightly
between Arras and Albert Saturday.
British trooPs also drove the Ger-
mans from some of their advanced
positions no:ethwest of Bet7aune in
the neighborhood of Robecq.
Hihdenburg, in nis big drive, is
stalled ten miles east of Amiens, more
than 85 miles ,faten Paris, The great-
est advance made by him in this Pi-
cardy drive was a little more than 35
miles.
Balked in his march on Paris, the
Gertnan commander started for the
It was only about ten days ago channel ports,' via Hazebrouck, on
9. He Is blockaded four mile
with a. medical officer in a casualty- April s
east of •Hazebrouck, and more than
that the coreespondent was talking
clearing station in the back- area, 25 miles from Dunkirk, the nearest
where only a few wounded had yet port. His farthest advance in the
arrived. Flanders thrust has been 'about 12
the lack a patieats, in' vloweuof the miles...1TMOUNT pa-nritEL NEXT,
Phi*, rresponde
cont WASrioua at
wounded, anti made inqUiries. in 'only" enough of their reserves to
Apparently, the Attlee have thrown
great number 01 men ueceesarily
the front as yet, because the ad- strength as far as possibl.e.ill Ithas
hold hI ,
"We hive a very few cases from
n taking care been noted, however, ant when the
vanced statione have bee
of them," replied .. the doctor sixnply. decessity et holding boom& impera-
It seems inconceivable- that this the, to avert disaster, tho holding
could be aceepted, looking at the great dorruesrii,was there to stop the enemy
German advance. In ordinary 011,44111.
In the north, the enemy, atter his
StalIC'ea it requites a hundred motor bitter reverse ee
•'
Thttrsday and Fri-
day along tae Givenchy -St. Venant
Tine, south of the Lys, appareatlY
iet patistpg toorganize more thor-
oughly for attacks upon Mount
Menem), the dominating peak in the.
ridge zone which the Willett are
can carry Week 8urtie1ent eqUiranellt holding firmly southwest Of Ypres,
for a station withetwo hundred bode.-
This meterial le Malted off to form thee The. Germans were coastrained to.
nueltus of new quartere further beck, .1 maintain infantry inactivity along
to which the ivinaining equip.inent 13 „ uvttdlattyafter suffering ally the entire Lys front, Sat -
brought, If possible, Alto terrific
When the offensive opened the 111:1.? ilbors:fteksinevgitIch the Britielr Imposed in
tjelt had big advance statiOns at elicit, ,sattits. up the maseed •enemy as -
places as Noyon, (litany, Ham, are.' .
,
Villers and Aehiet-le-Grand. All then% i• 'um's MEN' TURN,
almost immediately <Arne under proit-.
sure as the Germane swaeined swiftly
eorteard, Vraetleall the same t:Celies
Wan enacted at ahl of theso IliAl'i•Sa
44 their Mee:Ilion W,13 Part1N.1 0111;14:V811 tltell small gains as they hail
--auring the tint and amnia ilaye. vi.o.ta (omit; to &lenient themselves
.101TIOS to MOVe a hospital will& ae-
coMmetlates a thentsand patients, and
few of the main clearing' stations
liendle a has nember of patie.nt$ than
this. The medical corps, • however,
• Mee a scheme whereby lorries
Viola .Statehal Haig, however, found
himealf able to take the aggressive on
:levities night and. carried ont an Amer
-
alien deprived the Germans of
with when Thursday's battle was
over. By this intensive British act- •
ion the line as it stood before Thurs-
day's German attack wail completely
restored. The Gel -mans made a local
thrust southeast of Robecq, near the
westerly tip of the Lys salient, but
Nel,eie.
respeedily driven back by the Brit-
ish th
into Pecaut wood, whence ey
a•n
Sunday the Germans , were again'
driven from advanced positions iil
the same locality.
The British apparently are expect-
ing some new move by the enemy In
the Arras region, and Friday night
British detachments advanced in a big
raiding operation on a front of nearly
a mile, south of the Searpe, near
Beaurains, taking prisoners and cap-
turbag machine guns.
A renewed attack here would be a
logical proceeding for the Germans,
It would appear, after their failure
to gain ground by striking south
from the Lys salient, with the bend -
lug back of the British line south of
La Bassee Canal as one of their pre-
sumed objects, Such a result would
have tended to uncover Vimy Ridge
front the north and render this ?cor-
nerstone of the British defensive
structure in Northern France pos-
sibly more vulnerable.
• BRITISH STAND AT WALL.
It may well be that the enemy is
preparing a stroke to the south of the
coveted object with a similar
ead in view on that side. His initial
attempt astride the Scarpe in the
March drive was a costly • failure,
however, and the British line has
been staading like a rock all the way
between Vimy and Albert, just to the
north of tile Somme.
Tho French apparently are look-
ing for a renewal of the German of-
fensive Eouth ot the Somme at no
distant date, as was instanter by' this
week's move 'on Gen Petain's part to
improve his defensive positione along
the Avre, south-east of Amiens. "The
French gained the easterly elope of
the heights overlooking the river by
this move and on Friday night they
ah dd taking
bout fli
oort: a reconnoitring C11'
in this sector, repelling it raid
pr1soner:3 themselves.
The play of the heavy artillery is
continuing Meng the t,outherly
reaches of the battle line, between
LassiAny and Nayon, near the
Wench tight flank, but to 1nfuxtry
fighting has yet dc:yieloped there.
"Apart from artillery activity by
both sides on different sectors, the
day Passed comparatively ggietly on
the other parts of the British front."
SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—"A hofs -
tile attack during the night on one
of our posts south of the Scarpe
River was repulsed atter some fight-
ing.
"An attempt by the enemy to ad-
vance north-east of Ypres was stop -
Ped by our artillery.
otoele
rdVatotofnrloid
a•biseetegnolu(gota successfultitilocal
itt tile 1111)
ith 1
side of the Flanders salient), in
which a number of the enemy was
killed and a tONV prisoners and sev-
eral machine guns were captured.
"Hostile artillery Was active' yes-
terday afternoon, and last night in
tne neignnornood. ot La Bassee
Crairti."
Saturday Night.—"Successful minor
entenneses were carried out by us this
neorhang, south of Hebuterne and
souttegothe Scarpe 'River. We advanced
our linees slightly and captured 37 pile -
otters and three machine guns.
"The. hestile artillery has been
active in the neighborhood of Ayette
and south of La I3aesee Canal.
"As a result of a suceeeeful minor
enterprlea ycarried out by . us Friday
south of the, Scarpe River (in the
region of Afeas), ye captured a few.
prieoners, nide machine glum and e
trench mortar., Early in the, night
the enemy latRached a counter-attacli
in this, locality,vend was repulsed,
"During the. night a ettecessful
counter-attack by the First Division
threw out the enemy from points in
our advancea defences around Given-
chy and Festubert gained by hint on
the listh instant at the eost of heavy
losses. All objectives were gained,
lainatlto position here wee re-eetab
shmi,.
n7tetlrtla,c4LalnstotrP48lttr
o1eaetofheefleiioeiafigt.
ing, attlie eiiwhielt the enemr
%asdrivenbaolc 5.
FithINCJI OFFICIAL.
Paris, April 21. ---The hal on the
Somme front continues. The official
ftle::::rret-flaert7o4n1:, but both altilleries were
Sunday Night. --milieu, tas ne in-
aetive at Orioles points on the buunne,
the, Avre and the OISO, as well as on
the right bank of the Meuse.
- "North *f Seicheprey our lino ha4
been entirely re estab.ishca,
Sunday Afternoon. ---"Artillery activ-
ity 'continued on the, left bonit of the
Idtivier Itainv1611* NItoll,vd•olitt.h (IA beGtVnuttn, l‘fr3artittl
north of Rheims wan reln1100.,
Greatest Gas and Shell Bom-
bardment Yet.
Cries of Distress Heard
Prom the Enemy.
• • • ••••
Canaaiaat Headquarters in. Franee,
April 20, Viee.London, April 111, ---(By
W. A. WIllisou, speoial correspondeut
of the Canadian Press).—Durinie the
lest -twelve hours the Canediane have
carried out the biggest eorabitted pro.
lector gas and fthell bontaardinent 11,
tile hietorY or the westeru front. From
early laat night until early this more-
ing Our heavies anti howitzers millet:
shells upon the hostile battery peal -
tions, asing lethal gas, lachrymetory
gas and high explosives, while at two
o'clock this morning over twelve hun-
dred drums of lethal gas were Project-
ed age:est tha enemy trenches and
support areas in an tntensive concen.
trated bomaardment at great and less-
er intervais, M a e scientific,
carefeby thought out programme of
destruction, designed to silence the
eneettY guns, and kill the gull, crews,
or at least make the operation of then
batteries impessible. Tile success of
the bombardment was early seen in
the lesserang 'mettle fire, While some
estimate of the likely damage caused
may be gathered from the result oi
a simiJar shoot en April 8, in which
22 out of 32 ef the eueray batteries
were put out of action and have not,
:duce fired a shot.
In the midst of this distractive op-
eration special units carried out a
Projector gas bombardment against
Lens. In the few seconds occupied in
releasing the gas flares which went
up along the enemy front line the
men in our trenches could distinctly
hear cries et distress from the enemy,
caught without masks. When (Inlet
had been restored and the bermae
were presumably emergiut from their
dugouts and other special retreats our
artillery sprayed the hostile front
suppert and assembly areas with
shrapnel.
Hun prisoners have already testi-
fied to the effectiveness of other like
measures. The Ypres account is
slowly being settled.
The enemy replied with light artil-
lery fire to our heavies, Only to be
met with a heavy retaliation from our
lel-pounders against bis rivet vulner-
able positions. To add to the liven-
neso
s our trench mortars arid machine
guns kept up a harassing fire all
night,
With such gas and artillery activ-
itq, there has also been more infantry
action since my last cable. it has
largely been of .a, local nature, in
which our patrols and raiding parties
have again tend again entered enemy
positions, often to 'find that the foe
had retired, lin one patrol encounter
our men drove the enemy out a his
post and captured a machine gun, a
number of rifles and other souvenirs.
Two attempted enemy raids have
been beaten off, with numerous casu-
alties. One party of thirty which at-
tempted to approach our eines under
cover of a heave trench mortar bar-
rage was completely broken up by our
rifle and artillery fire. The second
raid, which began against, one of our
posts, developed into, a. miniature bat-
tle. The initial attack by ten of the
enemy against our postwas beaten
off, but the raiders reinforced by
double their strength, returned to
As soon as this,
Ituboniet attack.r eatiniIee
circumstances, fortnidgeole
within bombing distance,
the garrison of our post retired to
positions in shell holes. With Buell
protection they maintained such a
steady and accurate rifle fire against
their opponents that the enemy were
driven back without having gained the
slightest foothold in our line.
After the. failure of this raid, a
heavy artillery fire was opened up
against the post and vicinity, but we
suffered only one severe casualty,
whereas the enemeLwas seen taking
six of his men back on stretchers.
U.S. TROOPS
RON GERMANS
1,200 Shock Troops Meet a
'Reverse.
•
Capture Village, but Are
Driven Out.
Paris, Apra 21.—Fighting be-
tween Franco -American troops and
German forces in the vicinity of
Seicheprey, northwest of Toul,
where the Clerneans yesterday
launched a strong attack against
the French aud American poeitiona,
continued throughout the night.
The War Office statement, issued
this afternoon, says the French re-
covered nearly all the ground over-
run by the Germans. .A11101=11
troops fighting In this sector, the
announcement adds, repulsed the
Teutonic assaults on their lines.
The Associated Press correspon-
dent with the American army in
leranee, writes:
"Twelve hundred German storm
• troops, the largest number ever con.-
.,:centrated against tho American
troops for an offensive operation,
vre hurled against the Amerlean
meations on It oneenlie ft-ante...teat
dragenreeres Forefeirrnorth-webr
'rola to -day, after a terririe bons-
barditient of gas and high -explosive
shelbsea
"Thee.enemy sueceeded in pene-
trating 'the frenteline trenches and
taking the village of Seicheproy, bttt
after furious hand-to-hand fighting,
which was' still going on at night-
fall, the Arnerican troops remittal-.
ed the village and most of the
ground loet in the early fighting.
Three Germans were taken pris-
oner.
• "German airplanes, flying tat a
low altitude, attempted to disor-
genie° the American fighting men,
hut two enemy aviators were
brought down and " the others
driven ore.
"The vermarta suffered, heavy
casualties, and the American lineJ
retnained virtually intact."
Sunday's French War Mien report
'states that . the lines north et
Seiclienrey bit been reStOrtil.
ALL LOSSES MORE
THAN MADE GOOD
More Guns With British
Than Before Attack.
Zqually True as to All Other
:Supplies.
1.10*,,,o•
Loa4olf, 'April U-11,to 'Minister nt
Munitions has received the Itina's
eommands to convey to the °Metals
at the miulatm to the emploeere
to the munitions workere throughout
the country, both men and women,
nis Majesty's high approval of the
izertions made during this critical
.into and his satisfaction at the re.
markable result aehleved.
The King has learned from the mill.
may authorities that practically
the losses and expenditure of muni.
Ilona during the battle have already
been made good, without any undue
lepletien of the normal reserve, out
of resources which have been bald, la
readiness and by the additional effort
which has been made. There are
now actually more serviceable guns,
machine guns and airplanes with the
13ritish armies in the field titan there
were on the eve of the German flaw*.
Other supplies of all kinds ard'forth-
coming in abundance.
4I
FOURTH BATTLE
OF YPRES SOO
Must Follow the Struggle On
Lys River.
Foe, in Death Passage, Must
Try It.
(By Roaul Rousset, Military Critic of
the Petit Parisiena
Paris, April 21, -.---The German army
-
is now in a bad.eituation in the .leyle
Valley. The allies have no cause for
alarm. The enemy has madly lavieat-
ed his artillery fire and sacrificed hie
human materialeWhat 'has he gained?
Three or four kilemetreseNatural bar-
riers are not to be broken at any otat.
speak frankly. I do not desire to
forget an aesurealy unfortunate in-
cident, but merely to reduce it to its
correct peoportiaile.
The Gera:tens find themselves in a
veritable death Passage. If stopped
their messes are crammed together at
the bottone. of this pitsage. They try
in. vain to: eltake it walls. Little by
little the reads become congested, the
enemy's artillery; ;harasses them clay
and night, tb,e gro'und becomes imprac-
ticable and manoeavring is emeepered,
not for want of divisions, but be•
cavya
e theealinet be pushed forward
at the proper time.
An offensive that does not advance
breaks up rapidly : That Is what has
happened to the formidable anemia
eration tleat rushed into tte pocket
between Arras, Amiens and Neyon.
One can therefore easier understand
the stubborness with which the Ger-
man ,forces engaged on the Lys seek
to leave the swamps and shkllow wat-
ers and gain ,the heights, widen their
horizon, give air to their traime and
obtain room for their supply lines.
This is the theory of the enemy's Man.
oeuvre; squeezed on the two flanks
between Givenchy on the south and
the Cassel-Kemmel lines on the north,
and forced to break through on ono of
two bases of the pinchers which are
closing on him, ha has chosen the
northern side.. Now this movement to
the north can only be executed on
the ancient battlefield of Ypres. That
is why the fourth battle of Ypres is a
necessary consequence of the struggle
on the Lys River, which has extended
itself northward. This battle of Ypres
is still in its beginning. The Germane
have captured Wytecha,ete. The Brit-
ish, in order to avoid being • ov-er-
whelmed, have executed a general
movement to throw back their ene-
mies. This is by no means the end of
the conflict. Let us • wait • for what is
to creme."
t
BRITISH FLIER
FOUGHT EIGHT
Downed Three, Then Went
Down Fighting.
••••••••••
Bit Was Rescued by Bri•
tish Troops.
With the British Armies ft
France, April 21.—Stories of the mag-
nificent work being dene by the Bri-
tish airmen continue to be recorded,
but none is rnore striking than a, bat-
tle Just fought, When a British ma-
chine, with a pilot and observer, was
attecked • by eight enemy planes.
Terrific fighting oerisued. The Brit-
ish plane with machine guns engaged
the enemy so fiercely that three hos-
tile machines were driven down out
of control in the first few Minutes of
the engagement. The Germans were
pumping stream of bullets into the
British plane, and the obeerver Was
carrying on the fighting, After having
ben wounded in six -places.
The British machine finally was so
badly damaged that it caught fire and
dived steeply. The pilotArand-
ed observer zeutimied b.. tho
remaining five German intieltines
while their own was descending in
thanes,
The British plane eventually crash-
ed itto No Mans Land, °eta which
the German infantry Were tient(
steadily with machine guns. The
British infantry, however, organized
a men° party and brought the in-
trepid airmen: back stately.
PRESIDENT BURNED IN TAN}#
Washington, April butti re.
ceived by President Wilson yesterday
when he grasped a hot exhaust Dilee
as he climbed from the fighting tank
Ilritannla, atter it Tido around the
White Ilonse grounds, will prevent
him from playing golf for at least it
month, it was said to -day. The Presi-
dent played golf almost every day.
The burn was givieg the President
SDInb pain, but promised not to be ser-
ious.
A plain duty, like .4 plain girl, has
'Dm wooers.
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