Show tON o ARNIM MENACES YPRES SALIENT RETO EMENT 1 BY J ALLIES TH UG I J Germ Germans an s Reorganize Forces for for Fresh Attack AtI Attack At At- tack an and Experts F Forecast Forecast Fore Fore- ore ore- I cast Straight Straightening ning Line Liney By y Associated Press WITH THE TUE BRITISH t An ARMY I IV V V V IN PRANCE FRANCE A April lil 27 2 General l von Arnini Anim commander of the German Germai troops S in ill the v Ypres sector aused paused last ni night ht in fn his drive c again the entente allied territory about Kemmel e mel undoubtedly to enable the tho reorganization of ot his for a r ta l German artillery continues hammer the defending positions cj r I There seems a 0 q to general disposition disposition dis- dis position on the part vart of ot- the military r f observers to forecast t he he eventual I abandonment o of th the Ypres pres salient as the ot of the thea a all of Mont Kern Kern- mel It has been pointed out by the the British war office that this thib result will not necessarily follow It is likewise observed howe however that should an evacuation of Yr rei become necessary the taking of Mont J Kemmel has not destroyed the de defensive defensive defensive de- de value alue of ot th the iange range of hills to the west from which I ij it stood out outI and which have been referred to as 18 the backbone of th the Flanders l position I COST IS ENORMOUS A Meanwhile l the cost in men to the thor tho Germans In the progress progress they have havo made without winning more than a a. tactical advantage has been enormous enor- enor v mousOn On the Somme battlefront the sit sit- nation has has' worked still more In favor of the allies atHes The recapture of ot Villers-Bretonneux Villers and its dominating t thigh high ground by the tho British has made the German tenure o of Hangard to the south extremely precarious and they already dy have lost Jost part of ot the I village London reports a further advancement ad of th th allied line last S j night in this sector An attack at by by- by German tanks was broken up UI by the British fire More than prisoners i. i were taken by tho the British in this this' fighting 1 t Germans Try t to Pocket Allies i j iBy J By International News Service PARIS April 27 The The Germans ar are n now flow trying the same tactics against the British key position at Ypres in hi Belgium that the they emploY ed at Ar- Ar Bailleul aim antl at points on the Pi cardy field of ot battle By striking northward from Kent Keni mel hill bill Just south of Ypres on th the j Flanders landers front the Germans are arc n at attempting j at-j tempting to drive a we wedge Into the tho low lowground ground round flanking tho the Ypres railway and thus compel the British to evacuate p th the th lace through a pocketing pocketing pock eting movement TT If Jt the British are compelled to give give- uP up Y Ypres res tho the operation would not have hava any serious results result In fact tact It would straighten out tho the allied med front removing removing removing ing the salient cast east of ot Ypres which has long Invited German attacks along alons the tho two flanks BELGIANS IN DANGER Just how far northward an allied re retirement retirement re- re would have to extend if the Germans are successful around Ypres is uncertain but it is probable that it would go far enough to affect the Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian Ian army which is holding the lino line along the river Just south of ot tho the North sea coast Growing artillery activity on the Bel- Bel giant glant front is reported today and it may be part art of Von HIndenburg's strate strategy y to attempt to split the Junction junction Junc June tion of the British and Belgian fore just as the Germans tried It 11 against 8 the British and French on botn both the and Flanders battlefields Complete success has attended the allied operations during the past ty-four ty hours bours in bo both h theatres of hos hoe In front of Amiens th the British and French Trench again extended their lIn lines s on the front taking over prisoners BRITONS DISCOURAGE TANKS The Germans launched a 0 tank attack in that district but hut the they are proving successful with these hese modern ju- ju less Continued on page 2 1 I I 1 I I RETIREMENT Continued from page 1 than the British It was de decisively de- de broken up by b British gunfire On the Flanders front especially in inthe inthe inthe I I the sector around Kemmel hill Drat Drat- Lucre and the Ypres Ypres-Comines canal all in Belgium just southwest of ot Ypres the British and French brilliantly brilliantly brilliantly bril bril- repulsed all the German attacks The Germans lunged forward furiously furl furi and for tor a time Urte held the village of ot Lucre but were driven out last night is a point of ot some strategic importance owing to the number of ot highways that converge just north of ot the place 1 The Germans have havo lost extraordinary numbers of ot men killed wounded andI and 11 I captured This was as the thirty eighth day of ot the grand German offensive and the I eighteenth day of ot the battle of ot Flan Flan- ders |