| Show GERMANS BEAT BRITISH BACK I Berlin Reports Indicate General General General Gen Gen- eral Advances in Both Theatres of War B Berlin lA l' via London May MM 9 The 9 The German Jerman Ren general ral army headquarters staff today gave out the following cf- cf statement In In tho the western theatre theatre during during during- the tho continuance of at our attacks upon Ypres Ypres' we w IV drove e the enemy out of or his strongly fortified positions between the Fortu For- For n tu and tho the G Ypres roads roa 1 We e captured tho the villages of and and took look u up Important which positions which com- com the tho heights height e We took English Eng Eng- lish prisoners among them sixty officers of- of X JC r trench attacks west of ot and northeast of tho the Lorette hel height ht failed d with hea heavy JO losses HH S for tor the enemy Near La ra Basseo and VUr we forced an nn aeroplane of oC the enemy to land A partial French trench attack undertaken n with the aid of fo fog and bombs to the west of or I Perthes was waa beaten off orr bi by b hand grenades grenade In the Argonne Aronne between the Meuse and nd the Moselle and In the ho the da day passed without an anything o of note In In tho the eastern theatre In theatre In Libau vo we have la taken en a n. largo stock of war material Before strong stron forces composed c of Cr nil ill arms which the enem enemy hn has collected col col- before Mitsu our advance anco l dl Ions dons sent out n against this town are avoiding the enemy Northeast of ot the railway line between Vilna and aarle was aR destroyed after we had wiped out a a. Russian bat- bat allon On the near we attacked what remained of Cf four Russian Rus- Rus Russian Rus Rus- sian elan battalions which apparently belonged belonged be- be longed to troops who were beaten on May 6 and 7 near R Renewed ne' ne ed Russian attacks s on our positions po on the repulsed with heavy lot losses s to the enemy In the southeastern tern theatre theatre theatre-la In pursuit pursuit pur pur- suit of or tho the beaten enemy the tho troops under tinder General Generation yen Cn en after fter the fight Ight crossed the ho river between between be be- tween tween Belke east of and Under pressure of ot tho the Ger Austro-Ger- man inan troops from the east and tho the north of or Tarnow the tho enemy Is retreating toward to tow toward to- to w ward rd and over o the Vistula On the vacillating Ung Carpa Russian thian front other German Getman troops drove o tho the enemy out of or his positions on the railway between n lezo 1 and The number of or guns suns and prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- taken by us Increases |
