TURNIKG POINT IN
WEST [5 REACHED
Failed to Achieve Victory.
GERMANS HAVE ADVANTAGE
Huns To Go Back To Tactics Of Scek-
ing To Gain Limited Objectives
French Holding
Firm,
Washington.—"“The turning point in
the West is being
The War Department's weekly sum-
this view,
failed ‘to
gn
field,” and will
reached,
operations voiced
the Boche
victory in the
mary of
adding
achieve
that has
goon be compelled to go back to old
tactics “seeking to gain limited objec
tives.”
The statemen arned, however, that
“tis scored a distinct
advantage,
10 wise
would be
little.
very
were sup
information
likely
hat probably the Germans
little, if any, more real progress
reports contained
another war winter
a virtual
not achieved his
notices
feeding
vigorous
LO.000 th
today
join Faili
‘far-reaching
tion,
ged forward
wedge
break throu
£ out
driving
1
m
continue
give
of
when
an
enemy offen
weather con
more favorable was noted
CHARLIE CHAPLIN DRAFTED.
Waived Rights As Englishman And
To Don Uniform.
Los Angeles Charlie Chaplin, movie
picture comedian, has been drafted and
expects his
his call in June, it was an.
:
Although
Chaplin
nounced at
be Is
waived
his
Engl man,
and expects to wear
"Uncle Sam's khaki in a short time
Chaplin Is touring the country, selling
liberty bonds
studio here,
an
has
AIR RAIDERS KILL 26.
72 Cthers Wounded In Night Attack
On Paris.
Twenty
killed and 12
result of the German
on Paris. Most of the
one pot, Mriking &
evident raiders found their work
much difficult under new
system of aerial defenses and dropped
thedr bombs hastily,
SOnNs
wounded
six pe
others
were
as the
air raid
bombs fell
house, It
latest
in
woe
the
more the
The World War
Seven days after the Germans
launched their gigantic assault against
British lines between Lens and
Ypres the momentum of their attack
has been broken and the waves of the
{ Teutonic forces are recoiling before the
rock of the British defense. ‘While
the Germans have gains
ground and have driven a wedge into
the Allied lines to a considerable
| depth, they seem to have failed in thelr
| attempt to break through or take im
| portant railroad junctions.
During the last day there have been
| bitterly fought engagements at four
places, all on the northern side of the
| salient to the south of Ypres
| assaults against the British
| at Merville, near the apex of the tri
i angular dent in the British line have
| been hurled back by the British. Neuve
| Eglise, on the gouthwestern
{ spur of Meseines Ridge, has been taken
| by the Germans after a struggle which
{ will go into history as one of the
of
Ihe
the
made of
Seven
extreme
great
| est met week,
however, have not re
tired far, and it is probable that they
counter-attack
ut of the
will
to force the
ir
if
for
at once organize a
Germans o tows
which, held, might be a
| point an attad
flank
Ridge
about
might out
Messines
British position
Ypres. Balleull and Wulve
Neuve Eglise and
K whic!
make
rghet
between
BCENIOB
for Neuve
of the salier
fis southern
except
according to Per
r
fought
deepreated
of
indication of the
position to the war aspirations
tral Powers
COLLIER'S FATE IS PUZZLING.
German Raider, U-Boat or Spy Aboard
Theories Advanced.
ington,
Presence of a
raider or
myster
German
the Western
ths los
| ious submarine
giant new
lier Cyelops,
which has
Last heard
with a
from Brazil,
sought, but navy
i elals had practically abanduned hope
{ that she would be located
{ thought the raider or submarine theory
{ could explain the mysterious silence
| of the big ship since March 4, but they
| had no evidence of any lurking prow
lers on the Cyclops’ route; so the
ae
with 293 aboard
| West Indian port
manganese cargo
Cyelops is still
the
i mys
{le appeared still darker,
| AMERICAN AIRMEN DECORATED
Service Cross,
Paris
i tain
Norman
aviation
a Heutenant, are the first
to wir ‘he dist}
gervice cross of the
James
an
| Frank Bair,
| American
i guls
army
Hall,
section,
cap
Of
aviators
hed
! Captain Hall's home fz in
fax, lowa, and Lieutenant Bair's in
Fort Wayne, Ind.
IN ALL-DAY BATTLE
Picked Shock Forces of the
Kaiser Are Routed.
36 ARE TAKEN PRISONERS
Their Well Filled With
Food, Germans Were Ordered To
Haversacks
Penetrate Third Line Trenches
At All Costs.
American Army in France Ameri
| can troops have
i
I frst
been engaged in thelr
ruggle. Two German at
dell in
American positions north
of Toul, wer rpul sed
all-day st
tacks, ich were veered force
against the
with
casualty includ
nemy
oners lelt hands of
41
American lo
fight
violent
ge wer
Ing began wit
bombardments
GERMAN ALLIANCE DEAD
Meet ng
hort
lanes
ve been assembia
35 HUN PLANES DOWNED.
Aviators Also Bomb Station
At Metz.
British
pir
destroved
German
were
by Brit
The official
activities reports
London
planes, 21
brought
| tors on Tt
| ment on
ng of bomb
| were down
ureday
aerial
j dropg on military
| behind the
station
targels
battle {ront a
Metz
way at
| MONUMENT TO CADET FLIERS.
i
Britain To Erect It In Texas For Ac
cident Victims.
Worth, Tex The BD
through the Roy
erect in Forth
to the memor)
who were
his winter and wios
to England
Fort
| ernment,
i
{ Corps, will
Wi
monument of the
tre
bodies
returned
ss bss
ARMY TRUCK WRECKED.
Injured.
Spartanburg, 8B. Two
were killed and six were
motor truck accldent here
soldiers
injured in a
The troops
were from Camp Wadsworth,
Prisoners.
CENTER
————————
Work For
Hours Shooting Point-Blank
Many Artillerymen
At Close Range.
With the
Germans
their
resent
in France
Merville the
not reached
part for
iritieh Army
of
thus far have
jectives in
north
ob
the arive
of Armentieres, bu!
Lhe
and south
latest developments indicated that
intention of
immediately A
enemy had abandon
¥ no
the
assault
German
10
mt north
Cup
that
smashes on
document
be tl
and
Freveair
were
of Armen
One had Baill
ve, the other
third Bethu
ess than 28 divisions ha
by tl 2 vy in t}
mer
Venant,
Will Help Hasten Movement Of
Troops Across The Sea.
Washington —France
upon in bh
of American
add
called to aid astening
movement
by
raining
troops
sending i
the United
military at
camps In
Vignal
French Embassy, after
ence with MajorGeneral
acting chief of staff, cabled his
suggeeting that of
can be spared be led
in America.
General
of the
afar
Government
ans
3 $ 3 ”
cere that det:
t
duty
Or
HUN SHELL HITS ASYLUM,
Long-Range Bombardment Of Paris
Kills Four.
Paris — The bombardment of Paris
the German long-range gun was
One shell struck a foundling
he victimes the
dment 4 killed and 2
hy re
total of
were
asyium
wounded
COL. HENRY WATTERSON ILL,
Editor In Louisville Hospital-—Condl.
tion Not Serious.
Henry Watterson,
Loulsville Courier-Journal,
g ill at the Norton Memorial
nfirmary, His condition, however is
said by the attending physicians not
to be serious
Louisville edi
the
here
tor of
——
DUTCH PROTEST
Defends Taking Over of Hol-
land’s Ships.
in Wash.
ingten To Show That America
Only Followed Out
Agreement,
Washington
he
America’s
t recent statement of
lands government bitterly protes
against and denouncing the a
the United States
ghips In its ports
WAR
the form of a memorandu;
tary Lansing, 0 {
sent
15 O
2!
been N
U. 8. OFFICER BELIEVED SPY,
M. Birkner Arrested At
Camp Cody.
Major J.
Deming,
Birkner,
Twents
arrested
violating the
M
and
wae
with
SAMMIE ESCAPES HUNS,
Up In Switzerland.
Paris. The first American prisoner
escape from the
Tempe, has reached teen |
fo BAVE
Sw
Germany,
Basel,
BLEEDING RUMANIA.
Two Billion Dollars.
Zurich —The Germane have
Rumanians $2,000,000,000 it
taxed
was
the the the
of wheat, which
in good ground produced a hundred
fold (Mathew xii, 3) The common
triticum vulgare will sometimes pro
duce 100 graine to the ear,
parable of
in sOwer
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