Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

Beaten back slightly in Flanders, the allies have regained lost "ground in Picardy in the heavy fighting of the last twenty-four hours. The battle in Flanders continues to rage desperately around Mt. Kemmel, one of the British key positions. The allies in the course of the day’s fighting were compelled to withdraw from positions held in the morning at Dj-anoutre, Kemmel, and Vierstraat (all northeast of Bailleu!, on the Flanders front, Field Marshal Haig announced in his official night report. South of the Somme, at VillersBretonneux (nine miles east of Amiens), the allied line was pushed forward. Six hundred prisoners were taken and the town was reoccupied. Hangard-en-Santerre still is inGerman hands. There was no hard fighting in that sector* : 7/ Dispatches today indicated that American troops are holding twelve miles of the vital line south of Amiens in conjucntion with French units. Paris dispatches state 128 Americans wounded have reached base hospitals in the Amiens sector.