Show nUN WEDGE BREAKS 1 ALLIES ALLIES' LINE LANE J J N RING iNC LOSES FRENCH f FORCE RC Thrust by S Storm rm Troop Penetrates Between the British and French Flanks at Kemmel By William Philip Simms United Press Staff Correspondent WITH THE rilE BRITISH V V ARMI ARMIES S IN m FLANDERS April 26 French French troops are arc entirely entirely entirely en- en en en- surrounded on Mont Kern Kern- Jn meL n L ey ar fighting After eight hours' hours fighting yester- yester yesterday day German storm thial finally y wedged their way between the the- French and nd British flanks and crossed the Kemmel Ypres road where the terrific allied fire tire held them up for tor two hours Then they turned southward and poured down the valley vaney to the west of ot Kemmel Kemm l hill hlll surrounding the French who are still fighting atop the height Although the Germans have reached the crest of ot the hill hUl the remnant of ot the I French rench garrison Is still there The French also hold the village In night fighting at des Cats five miles away the French raked the slopes with machine guns and held held- out against terrible odds preferring death to capture Today the German lines JInes apparently run west of ot Kemmel Kemme but the ultimate winner is still a a. matter maUer of ot doubt Similar fighting surged about Vii VH- lers the British fighting like lions retaking tho the town atop a a. ridge much snuck In the same fashion as the Germans got Kemmel working Kemmel-working working aroun around the sides until it was surrounded As the French held hela out In Flanders the Germans held out In the town to east of ot Amiens In the Kemmel fighting the Angl Anglos Anglo S 4 French made a a. savage counter attack both allied flanks lanks enfilading Von Yon Eberhardt's Eberhardt's Eberhardt's Eber Eber- hardts hardt's turning the tha green flowers of ot the valley Into a sizzling hell The Germans paid dearly for for tor their gains rains 5 iv 4 I Germans Withdraw 1 Men From East EastBy I By fly United Press I MOSCOW April 26 The The Germans Germans' are steadily withdrawing troops and 3 sending them to France j JT 1 Polish citizens refused to enlist Ina Ina In a proposed Polish corps to fight tIght against the all allies in Flanders landers Kaiser Inspects S t Despite Bombs S SS S By Dy United Press Pres COPENHAGEN April 26 A 2 A BritIsh Brit Brit- fl Ish airman bombed Zeebrugge mole mola while the kaiser was vas Inspecting the results of the recent naval raid there German Germai newspapers declared today The kaiser remained on the mole and completed his inspection iZ I Von Arnim Leads Kem Kemmel el Attack By Associated ed Press K BERLIN Thursday A April ril 5 VIa London April 28 26 The 26 The s supplementary suppler supple official statement from th German war office this even evening n-g n treads t reads Y r S Mo MoThe The Tho army of ot Gen General Gendral ral von yon Is engaged in a a. battlo battle for tor Kemmel height S st t. t A r North Front Is Strategic Point i i v i S By United Press j i WASHINGTON April 26 rny r Army men viewed the north end of ot the western b battle line today as presentIng presenting present- present Ing ng more danger elements than thim the struggle in tho the Amiens sector Reinforcements sufficiently strong trong apparently have been thrown Into the Amiens battling but there appeared to o be more weakness in the British front to the north S Recapture of ot Villers-Bretonneux Villers by bythe bythe the Jie English and Australians showed that the Germans had had only rf ti slim grasp on It It but It is la likely there ther will Continued paga paga 6 6 S 5 I RING Continued from page 1 be further bloody fighting there and it itIs itIs itis Is possible that it will exchange hands more than once again s. s |