Show MEN i ALL LOST T R ND Crown Prince F Fails ails in I His Supreme Attack at i Cambrai but of I British Are Captured i I I I B By Y Wll William I lam Ph Philip I lp S Simms I United Press Staff Correspondent I WITH TilE THE BRITISH V V ARMIES IN FRANCE Dec 1 i Crown CrOWl Prince Rup- Rup I precut has struck his his- hardest 1 an and and- failed Fifty thousand of his soldiers in two gigantic blows have failed to Q break bieak the British grip on I though at the impact they forced the Tommies TommIe back ack two twp tio miles I O ex tb Ii I to th r fighting over o er almost the ar same awe e eline line ille as that which marked the furI furthermost fur fur- advance ance of ot Byng's forces a thermos a week ago But the Germans were I still trying to gain gath The German Gennan push came yesterday One was was' delivered over a front of about nine miles milE's southward from fromi i Cambrai Cumbral Five German divisions divisions divisions-at at atI I I least German troops were troops were called upon upon to deliver Germanys Germany's suj supreme supreme su- su I j preme effort to break the British circle about the depot city At the I j same time other great forces were I II i massed for a au attack attack- northward against the British grip on the ridge I positions This was over a front of five miles s A I Both efforts failed With Spartan Spartan- I like courage the British contested I every Inch of the way after atter the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans in their first rush had swept swepton on to Lateau wood La Gonnelieu Gont Gon- Gon I Villers Guislain and 1 t Pushed pus back at some places as much as two miles by fighting that lasted from 10 JO 0 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon Byng's fighters reformed ed for a counter counter counter coun coun- ter blow v. The same great regiment of ot tanks that smashed a wa way to victory In the surprise battle was vas called caned on again They hey lumbered from their retreats Once again they trundled to the battle bat bat- tie tle It wa waS wad these monsters lint cleared Gouzeaucourt The enemy bat I could not withstand them They rushed human walls of ot enemy soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers In their wake came the in infantry in- in fantry antry The fighting was furious When it was over and the British were vere once again firmly finnly established in Gouzeaucourt the streets were paved with G German dead The ruins were festooned with their c corpses bodies either flung aside by the tanks or victims of the British machine guns or sabers The British made 1 horrible havoc here of these dupes sacrificed in an attempt to restore the crown princes prince's prestige La Vacquerie and Gauche wood west of ot Villers Guislain have likewise likewise likewise like like- wise been recaptured As this is sent Crown Prince Rupprecht Rupprecht Rupprecht Rup- Rup has not advanced ad more than 2500 yards from his kickoff despite his most powerful mass drives The deepest point to which the mans Get penetrated was around Bourlon wood Hard pressed there I the British held like a stone wall vail To the tho west the enemy reach reached d the sugar factory on aD the Bapaume I road and wc were o then them thrown back back again l By United Press Pres PARIS Dec 1 The I.-The The German crown clown prince again vigorously assumed th th offensive around Verdun today and again was repulsed without gain I according to official dispatches The assault came latte vigorously I Increased on the right bank hank of the Muse Mouse around Beaumont and wood At Fosse wood the tl enemy delivered I two two heavy blows The fighting was wa- heavy but Petain's twice I hurled the enemy back after hand to hand struggles The The- rhe Germans I failed to gain By United Pr Press ss rO LONDON D c 1 Germany planned a simultaneous encircling attack I British positions wrested from the Cambrai al sector to turn the embryonic English victory into defeat according Continued on page 8 8 j |