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FROM ARRAS TO LENS.
CONSTRABLE NUMBER OF
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Lostos. April Fick Marsha! Si Dongs Haig raportes
THE AERIAL WARFARE.
ALL RECORDS OF SPEED AND SKILL, BROKEN.
LUNION, April S Mr. Bench Thunus, the war corres pundetit. describes the aeroplanes on both sides on the Western Front as possessing breathless speed and being
· practically noiseless. All records of pod and skill have been broken. A British machine stayed five enemy We attackel, at 50 this morning aeroplates in one flight. The art of trit huil penetrated the high diving has increased immeasurably enemy lines everywhere, from the Machines descent like a plummet from a southward of Arrus to the southward off height of 14,000 feet to bonib a train, fre Lens, progressing satisfactdily at all on a balloon, et fusillade a body of points
troup." Firing at small objects on the
on a
We stormed the villages of Fermies grund, is practised daily, like tent pegg a Bursies, in the direction of ing. "So pickly do the divers come and Cambrai. and also penetrated Havre that riflemen are often too astonished incourt wood
to five till the machine has disappeared. The German authorities complain
We captured, Fresnoy le-Petit. in the direction of St. Quentin, and advanced bitterly of the failure of their infantry our line to the south-east of Le Verguir. tâ fire on such deensious,
We took a considerable number of
prisoners.
AN UNPRECEDENTED BOMBARDMENT.
AMERICA AND THE WAR
AN ARMY FOR EUROPE.
WASHINGTON, April A
THE THIRD GREAT BATTLE
The war legislation will be submitted FOR VIMY BIDGE.
to Congress during the present week.
It is increasingly apparent that the Loxpoy, April 9 Government contemplates sending in
Europe. „Kenter's Correspondent at British army to
Three million Headhuarters in France states that grenades have been orderet and the the offensive, inentismed in the ear steel helmet is to be adopted.
Her communiqué, has extended to The General Staff contemplates no Lens and St. Quentin. The steady army of 2,000,000 being mised in two bòmurdment of the enemy's line, Fears,
which has been progressing for days. PRESIDENT WILSON TO KING intensified during last night.
GEORGE.
1.
LONDON, April 9. President Wilson has replied "to the
King's message as follows
Before the assault was delivered. She bombardment reached the great- eat volume of fim yet seen in the war. When the infantry attacked
"Your majesty's eloquent message at rain fell heavily. It was quite dark)
En critical moment in our national life, but the main blew in the faces of the is a proof to the community of the Germans, rather favouring us, while sentiment among the free peoples of the that glare of the guns and the signed world who are now striving to defen lights afforded plenty of illumination. their ideal, to maintain the blessings f The weather inproved later, though national independence and to uphol the wind was not favourable to agro- the rights of humanity. In the name plane work.
of the American people and of the Shortly after 8 o'clock p.m., the Government to which they look fiz second phase of the attack developed guidance, I thank you for your inspiring and the fighting intensified.
words."
The correspondens surmikes that
PRESIDENT WILSON'S THANKS TO the attack was bigger, and took place
PRESIDENT POINCARE. sooner than the enemy expected.
Herreails the fact that the
PARIS, April 8. northern section of the ground over President Wilson has replied to which the troops.ure how battling President Poincare thanking him" for was, the scene of the tremendous his congratulations on the attitude the French fighting during May 1915. United States bae been forced to nders The notorious Vimy Ridge is one of in opposition to the pitiless German the cornranding spurs of the systein, "imperialism.
SEIZED.
and the present is the third great GERMAN SHIPS IN CUBAN PORTS battle, since the end of 1914, for the mastery of this great key to the position.
BATTLE OF ARRAS RAGING UNABATEDLY.
SUBSTANTIAL BRITISH PROGRESSS.
:
LONDON, April 9, Reuters Correspondent at British · Headquartera telegraphing this evening states that the battle of Arras is raging unabatedly and is going in favour of the British, who are making substantial progres
HAVANA, April 8, Three interned German ships at Havana, two at Cienfueges and one at Santiago have been seized" and · the crown arrested.
GERMANS ARRESTED IN NEW·
YORK,
NEW YORK, April 8. Twenty-four more Germans have bee
arrested, including the former head of the Sarville wireless station.
PANIC IN CHICAGO WHEAT PIT;
New YORK, April &
A panic in the Chiago wheat pit re- sulted in prompt Government action to THE FRENCH FRONT. safeguard the world's food supply. The panic was dun to the report of the LONDON, April 9. | Department of Agriculture that sovert French communique reports weather had reduced the winter crop by. In spite of bad weather the artillery 50,000,000 bushels. Fortunately the on both sides
des is very active in several production of Rye is a record of sectora
160,000,000 bushels Farmers are sowing maize on the damaged wheat- fields
German attacks to the north-west and to the south of Rheinde fast.
We advanced somewhat in the region ofMaisons de Champagn
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