MAIN ATTACK WAS ON FLANDERS FRONT NEAR
YPRES, WHERE TWO DIVISIONS OF ENEMY
TROOPS MADE ASSAULT, BUT WERE BEATEN OFF
BY EXCELLENT WORK OF ALLIED GUNNERS.
SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS: The allied defense in Flan
ders on the front southwest of Ypres has again been tested and
found adequate for defense against the enemy. Two divisions
of German troops attacked the allied positions on a relatively
short front yesterday, and were stopped by enfilade fire on the
part of the French forces guarding the sector. The Germans
lost heavily and were compelled to retire before the heavy fire
which faced them.
It is the belief in allied army circles at the front that the
Germans intended to make a much more pretentious assault in
Flanders yesterday than they were able to carry out. The fail
ure of the attack precipitated was due to the excellent work of
the allied gunners. The splendid co-operation of the French
forces east of Seherpenburg, which came at the right moment,
upset the plans of the enemy.
GENERAL HAIG MAKES REPORT.
LONDON, May 10.—General Ilaig this morning reports
close lighting in the La Clyette-Voormezele sector, between the
enemy and Frencli and English forces. The British positions,
says General Haig, have been completely re-established and a
number of prisoners were captured.
NEW GERMAN ATTACK REPORTED.
LONDON, May 10.—An official report issued by the Brit
ish war office today says: A new German attack this morn
ing. in the sector north of Rommel, pressed back the British
line slightly at one point. A counter attack by the British
drove the Germans from portions of tile line they (altered in
the La ClytteA onnezele sector. The British made progress)
against the enemy at a point further east of Amiens, between
the Somme and A acre rivers, two German divisions which at
tacked the Flanders front being driven back and suffering)
heavy losses.
AMERICANS ARE BECOMING STRONGER.
WITH TI1K AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 10.
In the Picardy sector, held by American troops, there is no
particular change in the situation today. There is heavy artil
lery tire on both sides and some patrolling activity, Imt no in
fantry attacks of importance. Every day the Americans are
becoming stronger. Apparently, they are better entrenched
than the Gennans. who are being continually harassed, day and
night, by our forces. Despite the enemy’s heavy expenditure
of gas. results have been barren. The weather remains unset
tled and prevents much infantry action. Some aerial encoun
ters have occurred within tin* past twenty-four hours.
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CANADIANS ENTER ENEMY OUTPOSTS.
CANADIAN HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, May 10.— j
Strong raiding parties made up of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick troops, entered the enemy outposts in the Neuville
Vitasse sector, southwest of Arras, and inflicted many casual
lies on the Germans. The Canadians took prisoners and cap
tured two machine guns. Their losses were slight.
SEVERE FIGHTING NEAR V1ERSTRAET.
WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IX FLANDERS, May 10.
—Severe fighting L still in progress this morning on the Yier
straet front, southwest of Amiens and Ypres. At one time,
the British were forced hack at one point of the line by a heavy
machine-gun lire of the enemy. All the rest of the original de
fenses appeared again to be in the hands of the defenders, in j
ihe Yormezele-La Ciytte sector.
ITALIANS START OFFENSIVE.
ROME, May 11.— An official report today says: Italian
troops stormed Monte (’orno, occupied by tin* Austrians, yes-1
terday, taking a hundred prisoners, two big guns and four
machine guns.
FRENCH FLYER DOWNS SIX GERMANS.
BARIS. May 10.—Sub-Lieutenant Hem* Fonck, one of the
most noted of the French aviators, downed six German flyers
during the past tew days’ aerial fighting on the west front.
Fonck escaped uninjured.
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE CONTINUES.
PARIS, May 11.—Heavy artillery fire on both sides con
tinues today below Amiens, near Grivesness, according to an
official communique issued this morning. The French troops
advanced on the southern side of Picardy, on the battle field
near Orvillers and Sorel.
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ENEMY RAID REPULSED.
LONDON, May 11.—General Haig today reports that an
enemy raid in the neighborhood of Neuville and Yitasse yes
terday was repulsed by the British forces.
AMERICANS REPULSE GERMAN RAID.
WITH TIIF AMERICAN ARMY AT THE FRONT, May
5d.—A large German patrol attempted to rush the American
positions in the Picardy sector last night, but were repulsed.
with considerable losses.
TO MAKE ANOTHER RHEIMS
FRENCH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, May 10.—The
German artillery, under orders from the Prussian and Bavar
ian crown princes, is doing its best to make Amiens another
Rheims. The enemy artillery is aiming its fire at cathedrals
and art treasuries in the evacuated city. Fifty-eight hundred
shells were dropped on Amiens yesterday.
Buyers Will Be Notified \YThen First
and Second Liberty Loan Bonds
May Be Exchanged for Third Loan
Bonds.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 11—James
K. Lynch, governor of the San Fran
cisco Federal Reserve bank, warns all
banks and individuals not to send to
the Federal Reserve bank of San
Francisco interim certificates or bonds
of the first and second Liberty loans,
or first Liberty loan bonds converted,
for conversion into bonds bearing in
terest at the rate of 4V4 per cent un
til announcement is made publicly by
means of circular or otherwise, of the
conditions under which such conver
sion will be made.
From information now available it
is believed that the privilege of con
version of bonds of the first and sec
ond Liberty loans, and the first Lib
erty loan converted, into bonds bear
ing interest at the rate of 4 Vi per cent
will commence July 1, 1918.
Liberty Sticks.
OAKLAND, Cal., May 11.—South
ern Pacific Yard employes drummed
three fellow workers out of the yards
here when they refused to buy Liber
ty bonds without giving adequate rea
sons.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 80.—
Members of the National League for
Woman’s service have raised on an
average of $!)()() a nay here for ten
clays in the Third Liberty loan.
SAN FRANCISCO, April MO.—Up
to Friday noon 818 honor flags had
been awarded to towns and counties
in the Twelfth Federal Reserve dis
trict for raising their third Liberty
loan quotas.
Oregon led with 182 flags, southern
California 58, Washington 18, Utah
14, Nevada 5, Arizona 8. Idaho 3
(flags awarded to counties only), and
Alaska 4. Scores of other communi
ties had filed claims for flags.
ANCHORAGE BOY
NOW INSTRUCTOR
Erwin E. Wright, son of J. W.
Wright, of the mechanical department
of The Times, and who himself was
a machine man in this department, is
coming to the front in the aviation
service of the United States army,
which service he joined after leaving
Anchorage last fall. Young Wright
graduated with high honors at the
aviation school at San Diego, and be
cause he displayed such aptitude for
the work, he was assigned as an in
structor. He is giving instruction to
as many as 60 young men, who are
being taught the technique of avia
tion.
BROWN SENDS LIVE
STOCK TO SELDOVIA
George N. Brown, who has been
raising hogs at Eska, Alaska, has
transferred his stock of ten hogs to
Seldovia, where he has located a
homestead, and will undertake rais
ing hogs on an extensive scale.
The garbage from the mess house
of the Eska coal mine furnished a
considerable portion of the feed for
the animals while being raised at that
place.
The hogs were shipped in wooden
crates, the entire shipment weighing
1,910 pounds.
GERMAN SAILORS OUTLAWED,
COPENHAGEN, May 11.—The an
nual meeting of the Danish Union of
Officers of the Mercantile marine has
passed a resolution condemning the
German submarine warfare and urg
ing the suspension of all relations be
tween neutral and German sailors
“for a long time to come.”
Prof. Heron, of Geneva, Friend of Wil
son, Unequivocally Turns Down
[ Peace Offer Proposed by a German
Professor.
LONDON, May 11.—The London
Mail’s correspondent, writing from
Geneva, Switzerland, tells how Prof.
! Heron, of that city, a warm friend of
| President W ilson, of the United
[ States, unequivocally turned down an
attempted peace offer from Germany.
Ludwig Quidde, a German professor,
knowing the relations between Heron
and Wilson, called on the former at
Geneva. Quidde said he represented
the German foreign office and declared
he came prepared to pave the way
j for peace. He said Germany was will
ing to grant Alsace-Lorraine an au
tonomous form of government, with
in the German empire, providing that
the allies would restore German colo
nies taken during the war and that
the allies further agree not to wage
an economic war against Germany
after the war.
Prof. Heron informed Quidde that
the United States no longer seeks
peace, until the Augean stable at
Potsdam lias been swept out. He said
the German had the effrontery to ask
him to lay such a rigamarole of cant
and deceit before the American people
and he positively declined to do so.
S. S. ALASKA
COMES AND GOES
The steamer Alaska of the Alaska
Steamship company arrived in port
last night at 6 o’clock with 28 pas
sengers and 119 tons of general mer
chandise for Anchorage merchants.
The Alaska sailed for the south at 4
o’clock this morning with a heavy
passenger list. Among the incoming
passengers were A. F. Standee, H.
lvimmel, H. Lutch, H. lv. Taylor, Ger
trude Schaleben, Mrs. G. Stone, Sylvia
Stone, R. Stone, O. Rossi, Frank Eilis,
M. A. Ellis, F. H. Launsbury, Theo
dore Trueason, G. James, Mrs. C. K.
White, Junita Ahlers, E. C. Catten, P.
Koska, W. Koska, M. G. Severson, H.
Feldmann, Arthur Frame, W. I), Gop
pernoll, G. Sesbury, E. A. Magei, H
S. Irvine, Mrs. Nan Sluper and Rob
ert Scott.
TAFT AND WALSH
AS MEDIATORS
WASHINGTON, May 11.—The war
labor board has instructed two of its
members, former President Taft and
Frank P. Walsh, who are joint chair
men of the board, to mediate the dif
ferences between the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies and
their employes, growing out of the
refusal of the companies to recognize
the telegraphers’ union. The employes
charge that the companies discharged
men for affiliating with the union.
Taft represents capital and Walsh la
bor on the war board.
EIGHT ARE KILLED
TWENTY-SIX INJURED
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 11.—Eight
United States soldiers were killed and
twenty-six injured yesterday, when a
wooden railway coach in which they
were riding, went over a trestle near
Camp Jackson. An inquiry has been
ordered to fix responsibility. All of
the soldiers were from southern
states.
GERMAN ACCOUNT OF MATTER.
BERLIN, May 11.—A German offi
cial report today says: The British at
tempt to blockade the harbor at Os
tend met with complete failure. The
old cruiser was entirely battered to
pieces and lies aground before the
harbor, outside of the navigation
channel. The entrance to the harbor
is quite free from obstruction of any
kind.
SUMMARY—Committed as they are to a continuation of
heavy fighting, the Germans are apparently taking their full
time before beginning another operation on anything like a
comprehensive scale. During the past two weeks the Germans
have made only one determined attack against the allies. This
was in the ^ pres sector and met with a complete repulse. Ger
man guns are hurling thousands of shells on the allied posi
tions, in certain sections of the west front, but there has been
no infantry activity in two weeks, aside from the Ypres assault*
and there are no signs of any such activity within the next
few days.
In the meantime, the allies are taking advantage of the
lull to strengthen their positions and reinforce their armies.
1 hey await with entire confidence a resumption of the big of
fensive.
LITHUANIA MUST SHARE IN BURDENS.
AMSTERDAM, May 14.—Kaiser Wilhelm has issued a
proclamation in which he states it is assumed that Lithuania
will hereafter share in Germany’s war burdens.
BRITISH IN PURSUIT OF TURKS.
LONDON, May 14.—An official bulletin today says: Brit
ish mounted troops, after capturing the town of Kerkut, in
Mesopotamia, pursued the Turks for twenty miles northward
on May 11. The Turks were driven, in disorder, across the
Lesser Zab river, at Altyn Kupri, southeast of Mosul.
AMERICANS FIRE MUNITION DUMP.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, May 14.
—The American artillery fire this morning touched off a gi
gantic enemy munition dump at Cantigny, which resulted in
! starting two tires at Montdidier, followed by numerous expio
i sions of munitions.
HOSTILE ARTILERY IS ACTIVE.
LOXDOX, May 14.—-General I lain- today reports that hos
tile artillery tire developed actively this morning in the sector
to the north of Serre. Yesterday there was a heavy enemy
artillery tire directed against the British lines north of Rem
ind and on a portion of the southern line of the British front.
OTTAWA STATEMENT PROVES UNTRUE.
LOXDOX, May 14.—The Associated Press was officially
; informed today that the statement sent out from Ottawa, Can
!ada, attributing to the war committee of the cabinet the an
nouncement that the American army would not be employed
J on the west front until it became a complete and powerful force,
! was due to an error that had been corrected.
ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON THE SOMME.
LOXDOX, May 14.—German artillery is active today ou
the Somme-Ancre sectors, says a British official report.
BRITISH CASUALTIES FOR ONE WEEK.
LOXDOX, May 14.—The British casualties for the week
ending yesterday reach a total of 41 .(>12. Of this number,
! .”>..Mib officers and men were killed, the remainder being in
wounded and captured. It is believed that the week’s total
is the largest of any week since the war began and it is as
' serted that it represents the losses suffered when the fighting
j on the Flanders and Picardy sectors was at its height. Casu
alty reports are not usually available for some time after ac
tions in which they occurred.
VAST QUANTITY OF SHELLS FIRED.
BLRXL, Switzerland, May 11.—The German batteries, in
the great assault on the British lines March 21, fired three times
as many shells in three hours as the Germans fired in the en
tire* f ranco Prussian war. a German officer, who is in Berne,
asserts. In the assault on tin* British, the Germans used over a
million, five hundred thousand shells in three hours.
MINE BOMBARDMENT KILLS AMERICANS.
BLR,LIX, May 11.—A German official report today says:
The Germans inflicted heavy losses on the American troops
southwest of Apremont and north of Parroy by strong mine
bombardments.
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIGHTING CONTINUES.
PARIS, May 10.—An official French communique this morn
ing says: Heavy artillery fighting is in progress on both sides
of the river Ave, on the front below Amiens.
GERMANS SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES.
PARIS, May 11.—An official French communique today
says: The Germans launched a bitter assult, after a violent
artillery bombardment, on the French positions southwest of
Mailly-Raineval and succeeded in gaining possession of a small
section of territory. The French forces, by a brilliant counter
attack, re-captured the lost positions. The Germans suffered
heavy losses.
SUMMARY—Another week has passed without a renewal
ny Germans of the big offensive begun March 21. Possibly the
Germans are waiting for a counter blow by the allies. They
must have been disappointed by the waiting attitude of Gen
eral Foch, commander of the allied forces, which it is believed
will compel the enemy to further reveal their purpose with
little delay, as they cannot afford to squander time, with the
American forces now rapidly assuming formidable numbers.
Every day gives evidence of the alertness of the allies. Numer
ous operations have been undertaken during the week to im
prove their positions. Their artillery fire has been directed to
equally good purpose. Aeroplane raids without number, in
winch the superiority of the allied airmen has been clearly
shown, have served the same end.