Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

Abandonment by the allies of Ypres and its salient appears today inevitable as the result of the fall of Mount Kemmel. The German army under Gen. Sixt von Arnim is driving against Ypres from the southeast, south and southwest. Field Marshal Haig admitted last night that the allied line had been driven back in the direction of Locre, which is six and a half miles southwest of Ypres and two and a half miles slightly northwest of Kemmel. Meanwhile other German forces are moving against Ypres along both sides of the Ypres-Comines Canal and, according to official admission, made progress. Berlin announces the capture of St. Eloi, three and a half miles south of Ypres, as well as of Kemmel and “Drancourt,” presumably Drancoutre, three and a half miles northeast of Bailleul. On the Amiens battlefield the honors of the day belonged to the allies. The French advanced their lines near Hangard and the wood of the same name, and the recapture of both is counted as a strong possibility.