20 APRIL 1918, Page 1
The general position, as we write on Thursday, is that
the enemy has been firmly held on the south and west of his new front of attack in Flanders, but on the north-east he has advanced to the foot of the fairly high hills, from the Mont des Cats to Mont Kemmel, which form the southern flank of the Ypres salient. These hills are the natural defences on this side of the plain between Ypres and the sea at• Nieuport and Dunkirk. The enemy tried on Wednesday to break into the Belgian lines near Dixmude, but was severely repulsed, leaving six hundred prisoners in the hands of the Belgians.
