Show S' S ALLIES ALUES SMASH HOLE i IN THE LINE t GERMAN ERM N RESERVE ARMY IS 13 HAL HALTED ED BY FRENCH AND r BRITISH FORCES 0 I I I Biggest Effort Yet Made by Hun Lead era ers In Flanders Offensive Falls f Attacking Attacking Forces Being Thrown I Back With Terrible Losses c J Paris The The entente allied Un line hn bar barJ has J i been advanced between La Clytte and Kemmel The Franco S also Salso have made some progress south of bf that that region l r French forces Tuesday held th if 0 whole o of the town of west o 0 Kemmel including the hotly cont contested sted S Hospice The allied line Une also made h some progress slightly Improving th the position around VIllers St e Tuesdays Tuesday's attack was the biggest effort ef ef- r- r fort tort the Germans have yet made In the r 1 Flanders offensive the enemy employIng employ employ- k- k I Ing g about thirty fresh battalions of reserves reserves re re- serves in addition to the large number number number num num- ber of divisions in position at the beginning be be- lt ginning of the battle Y S A satisfactory feature of the struggle struggle tt gle is 19 that the British and French t cm-t emi i relatively small forces to deS de- de S Teat rent the enemy I IS ig S At one point the French were forced to yield a little ground but supports promptly arrived and drove back the Germans S v b 1130 By o'clock in the morning the j jf f. f 1 Germans had forced their way through ii K A near as far as Hyde Park corner cornerS S I between Scherpenberg and Mont MontS S 1 1 Rouge This was one of the critical 1 f r r moments of the day but the French counter attack o fiercely and an hour 3 later had pressed back the enemy on on S the Ue flank and held him in the center The The Franco British troops took a large number of prisoners during the fighting but there were fewer than x I th he lie magnitude of the struggle would I lend lead ad one to expect ex owing to the desperate desperate des des- I to hand-to-hand encounters S enS engaged en en- S f 1 aged in S Tire The prisoners show considerable deS dey dejection de de- de- de S S S y at the tile failure of Von ArI Arnim's lm's heavy thrust and admit that the task r ahead of the German army army threatens S. S to bleed the fatherland of its manhood manI man man- I hood |