EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
Ailies' Reports on Recent Activities..
London, May 18. Reutice's correspondent at British Headquarters reports: Notwithstanding the heat wave in northern France of the last two days and the consequent improvement in the 'con- dition of the roads the enemy ahora no sign of movement 'Arrial activity continues to be abnormal. Daring the past 48 hours our airmen have been crashing and driving down out of control hostile aircraft not singly but to the extent of several dozens. Considerable dissatisfaction prevails in the enemy ranks at a further reduction in the broad ration. Their daily allowance has been cut down to half a loaf of 700 grammes instead of 750 grammes as heretofore.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reporting on aviation says: There was great serial activity on Thursday. Our aeroplanes dropped twenty-three tons of bombs on important rail centres, aerodromes and billets. Fighting was intense during early morning and in the evening. We brought down thirty and drove down fire. Our anti-aircraft guns downed two others. Two hostile machines landed in our lines and their occupants were captured. Five British machines are missing. Our might fiers dropped a further 10 tons of bombs on rail stations at Lile, Douri and Chaalnes, On billets in the neighbourhoods of Bapaume, Peroane and Rosieres, and on the docks at Bruges. The enemy's night fliers were also active. A Goths landed in our lines, and its crew were taken prisoner. "With reference to the Saar- bracken raid on the 16th three hostile machines were driven down, not fire.
An American communique states: Hostile raids in Picardy and Lorraine were repulsed with loss by the enemy in Hilled and wounded. There is continued aerial activity in Worre, gun machines successfully engaging the enemy in several encounters.
A French communique reports lively artillerying north of the Arre, in Champagne and in the rigion of Massiges.
A Belgian, communique reports violent artillerying in the direction of Nieuport, Mercken, Weedendreft and Hou- thoulst forest.
A Belgian communique reports that German airmen have bombed a Belgian hospital in Calais killing ten and wounding twenty. A French communique reports the ususi reciprocal artillerying north and south of the Avre. Between the nights of the 16th and 15th and the 18th and 17th our airten dropped 111,000 kilogramames of projectiles on railway stations, aviation grounds and canionments starting fires and blowing up dumps. Four enemy aeroplanes were brought down and three seriously damaged
An American communique says that the fighting on Friday was limited to reconnaissances. The intermittent active artillerying has increased and there is serial activity north-, west of Toul and in Lorraine.
A Paris official message gays: Enemy aeroplanes crossed the lines and bombed several places behind the front. Some machines approached Paris where the alarm was given at 10.32 and the "all clear at 11.9 Bombs were dropped in the outer suburbs.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports considerable. reciprocal artillerying during the night of May 17 between Givenchy and Robecq; also hostilo artillery activity in the Lens. Hazebrouck and Ypres sectors.
The Coming German Offensive.
Paris. May 19.
The Petit Parisiene" expert estimates the German man strength in the West at 130 divisions and in addition 48 reserve divisions-altogether 1,700,000. He says the enemy will try to threaten Amiens, cut the Amiens-Clermont railway and crush the Ypres salient. If he succeeds his first objective will be to secure the evacuation of the whole of northern France and establish a new front from the mouth of the Somme to Noyon.
On the eve of the renewal of the German offensive Pre- sident Wilson has set a message to the French people "expressing the deep and ardent admiration of Americans for the heroism and self-sacrifice of the French people in the terrible final conflict between Liberty and Brutality. He Bays: "American hearts, are with the armies on the blood- stained battle-felds of valiant France; Americans are your brothers in this great holy common cause."
Beater's correspondent at American Headquarters, reports: American troops have arrived in the area occupied by the British troops who are blocking the way to the Channel ports. The British battle-scarred veterans greeted the newcomers not only as comrades but as warm frienda, the greatest cordiality prevailing. The Americans immedi ately started the last stage of their training prior to entering the line. They belong to the new armies and speak almost every language, representing the descendants of aimeron nationalities.
A French communique reports violent bombardments at various points north and south of the Ayre.
A French communique reports that both artilleries are active in the region north of the Arre.
On the British Front.
London, May 18. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heig reports: We success- Inlly raided in the daytime in Morlancourt sector and south of Balloch prisonering a number and capturing two machine- guns. Australians in the former enterprise rushed a post.. westward of Morlancourt village, surprised the garrison, prisonered twenty-one and took a machinegun without incurring casualties. Hostile artillery is more active in the -Villers Bretonneux" sector.
London, May 18.
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports: We carried out & successful miner enterprise on the night of the 18th in the neighbourhood of Ville-sur-Ancre, north-westward of Morlancourt, improving our positions and capturing prisoners and machineguns. We successfully raided north-westward of Albert and in the neighbourhood of Hamel and repulsed an attempted enemy raid north-eastward of Bethune. Our night fliers dropped ten tons of bombs on Chaulnce, Hou- boardin, Donai and Marcoing stations, on Peronne and in the neighbourhood of Bapaume. They also dropped thirty- two beary bombs on Thionville and Metz railway stations securing several direct hits. A fire was started at Thionville. One machine has not retuned. We carried out a most successful daylight raid on Saturday on railway stations, factories and barracks at Cologne. Thirty-three bombs were dropped and bursta were seen on rail-sheds. Our bombers were attacked by hostile scouts and two of the latter were driven down. All of ours returned.
GERMAN BRUTALITY 70-PRISONERS.
London, May 18" The "Times" correspondent at Amsterdam learns from officers interned in Holland that two British war prisoners at Minden on the 13th April were shot dead for not stopping talking A British soldier at Sennelager in January was deliberately shot dead by the guard for refusing to fetch coffee. An interred British non-com, who writes to the "Times," describes how a party of five hundred British we sent to Russia for reprizal. They were driven for thirty-five kilometres over josbound roads and swampe by Chlens st the point of the lanco, who then billeted them on the ice whence they were regularly marched to the trenches. In seven weeks twenty-two died and 190 were sent to hospital. Only eight of the remainder were it to work.
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In December 1915 I visited our Western front. I traversed our lines from La Basree to Ypres, which, as the reader may remem ber, comprised nearly the whole scene of our operations in those days. I had conversations with men of all ranks, and I tried to sense the tremendous organis- stions and operations of that time. I did my beat, too, to estimate the spirit of our Army, and to (understand the inwardness of the ghastly business which was con- vulsing the world.
It is a long ary from 1916 to 1918, but as the war is not yet over, and an I bave only lately re tarned from a second visit to the front, I am led to set down my impressions, to draw comparisons between then and now, sad to ask myself certain questione.
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As may be imagined I looked forward to my second visit with | tremendous interest. No wonder.
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but he knows his cause is just, I was in France a fortnight, and he is sure that we can win. and every day was crowded with And no wonder, When we interest, often with excitement, sbink of the past we can scarcely To write a complete record of doubt. Two years ago when I what I saw, and heard, and ex-tood in the Ypres salient, and parienced would mean a volume, sried to visualise the two great for no man with eyes to see, and battles that had been fought there, esre to bear, could pass through a grey, grissied old major mid For complexity of provisions, FAVORITE each scenes as those throngho me," You can't go through the the bill recalls the Silver, Par which I passed without having battles of Ypres without believing chase Act of 1890, which provid." his memory stored with many Almighty God." Exactly. ed for iseus of Government paper andying memories.
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Probably be comment of most readers of this bill will be that if is cumberous and clumsy so it stands, and overweighted with hardly intelligible details. It ie likely enough to be inperseded, when it comes back from the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, by a measure where provision the ordinary mind cen understand.
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It is take. Tommy in the trenches has | holder." also generally believed that on been thinking and talking, and the issues of the next few months he means when the war is over to will depend the fatore of Europe "hare things different.” He mesue and the world. Americs is not to have his fall share, not only in yet fally ready, Russia has given the government of the country" up the struggle, Issly bee all and for which he has fought, but in more than she can do to hold her the fruits of all his labour and front against the enemy, while sufferings. But the first thing is to France, which has done so mag lick the Germans. No one is louder nificently, is unable to make any in his denonciations of the false great advance.
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