Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1917 — GERMANS GAIN IN FLANDERS [ARTICLE]

GERMANS GAIN IN FLANDERS

British Advanced Posts Driven Back 700 Yards. c London, Dec. 24.-—An attack in force by the Germans in Flanders was announced in a dispatch from Field Marshal Haig. The Teutons struck the British front in the neighborhood of the Ypres-Staden railroad. Field Marshal Haig admits his advanced posts were driven, in over a front of 700 yards. The German onslaught came after a terrific bombardment, hod was made under cover of a thick and deadly barrage fire. Marshal Haig's message adds that great artillery activity was kept up all throughout the night between Ghelavoli and Polechppejle/bn the ridge east of Ypres. The Paris war office reported a flareup of large scale raiding activity on the part of the Germans. All these enterprises were repill sen.