Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

Held at bay in Flanders, the German* have been driven back on a wide front ih Picardy with the loss of more than 500 prisoner l *. Thi* new* today brought encouragement to the allied capital*. The fighting in the Armentiere* sector, although pressed heavily by the Germans, resulted all in favor of the British and their French allies. During the last twenty-four hour* there has been heavy fighting practicallyy all along the Flanders line, and Berlin is forced to admit officially that the situation is unchanged. The German* launched a new drive on Bethune, but, the British report* indicate, were stopped in their attacks with terrific losses. Attack* on Mt. Kemmel were equally fruitless. The French attack, before Amiens considerably reduced the menace to that city. The German* were driven back on both side* of the Avre River, the French taking the greater part of the Senecat wood* and advancing to the outskirts of Castel, while to the south they pressed forward to the slopes of the height* dominating the Avre.