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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1918-05-23, Page 7c ERON.HANo POLICY AAIwsT SINN FEIN MALCONTENTS Five Hundred of the levers Under Arrest and Placed on Ships Authorities Moved So Suddenly. There Was No •Resistance Landon, May 19, ---'pep Government keeper nd proceeded to he has adopted the Hall, having t Caste- polity of' the iron g 1?revfpusly cut the tele - hand lel dealing with sedition in Ire. phone and telegraph wires, so that land, .441 the leaders of the Sinn Fein help could not be summoned Society who were implicated in tate plot with Germany have been arrested by a swift, edonaprchensive drag•uet drawn by the police and soldiers dur- ing Friday night and the early hours of Saturday morning. The movement wee apparently a vompiete surprise, and most of those arrested were quickly and quietly placed aboard snips, The dragnet swept over all the Country, and there was no possibility of resistance. The Majority of those arrested were taken from their honsee while aLed, and only a few scuffles and. a little revolver -play took place, Ac- cording to latest reports 500 arrests Wore made. Documents of great importance in connection with the conspiracy have Vallee into the hands of the Govern - anent through the arrest by coast - 'guards of a pian with certain evidence upon him. John Dillon, head of the blah Nationalists, has summoned a special meeting of the Irish party to discuss the situation. Th9.proeiaination by the new Vice- roy states that the arrests were made because a plot `with Germany was being fostered. This gives the Govern• plant ground for justification, The Sinn 1•'eing movement has heen for a long time conduct?d in defiance of all civil laws and war prohibitions, but the Sinn Fein leaders, except in the case of bratorical outbursts, have not identified themselves with the Ger- mans, and so long as the Sinn Fein inpcared to be a purely Irish move - meet a considerable section of the English people, have been disposed to think that the Government might turn a blind eye toward it, and trust to the soldier elements in Ireland' to main. tatea balance. The latest development places the Nationalist party in an embrraseing position. John Dillon and his follow- ers have withdrawn from Parliament and jollied the Sinn Fe:vers and the Church in a strike against commit). teen. If the Sinn Fein is proved to be in' conspiracy with the Germans, the Nationalists inunt drop their new alli- ance, becanse the Nationalists never have been pro -Germans, icor elven ante British. but only Home Rulers. There is 'some evidence that the Sinn Fein leaders had` preparations made for a long time for any coup that knight take place. When the police and soldiers went to the headquarters in Harcourt street, Dublin, Saturday morning, they discovered that beyond a lot of more or less routine corre- spondence there was no document of importance. It was from these offices that the whole, Sinn Fein movement was directed. • P, of, De Valera was in the office last night for a• few hours conferring with seine of his lieutenants. 13e left short- ly afters 10 o'clock, taking a train to hie home at Greystonee, where he was arrested. He made no attempt to con- ceal his surprise, Countess Marklevica protested bit- terly against her arrest, and insisted on taking a pet dog, which wore the republican colors, along with her. Tadge Barry, who has twice bet imprisoned already in connection wi the revolutionary movement, was ar- rested and conveyed to Dublin by strong escort. Peter Hourihan, e tor of the Southern Star, of Skibh een, was also arrested Dr. McNabb, Irefa of Belfast, was taken by the pollee while electioneering in East Cavan. The arrest of the Sinn Fein le,lciees was made by detectives acting in co- operation with the military, whip, in the provinces they were carried out by the' Royal Irish''Constabularl°- NO DISTURBANC1?S, Dublin, May 19. -One' hundred s•: rests haveialready been made in Da•s= lin, aind reports of arrests in th 3 girl- vinec _conle.froni Galway, Cork Sete, Athlone, Dundalk, Cashel, Berns - earthy, Skibbereen, Kilkenny, Tulle -- Morel Drogheda, Atherny, Westpert. Loughrea and Rosc mm ug o on, .iia t em- plpydd 'in the East `Cavan election eaxu aign have also betel arrested The prisoners have be i brought to Dublin -and put on a gentler in }iin h,- tewn harbor. Thee are u>.,st:y men who were formerly imprisoned in connection with the 1':116 rebellion, No disturbances are recorded. ng th a di - 'n" says: "A brave 'atop has been taken in nd. FOr geave reasons Friday morning, Prof. De Valera, president of the Sinn Fein'par,ty,, and many other c.xtre)nit'ts of the same organization e ere arrested. "The reason is that these evolved !separatists and ,protnermans have once more been in treasonable touch with the •enemy,. de:1i1ite the 1,picnay with winch they wore treated meter the last Dublin outbreake revolt an; sabo- tage. "The reality and seriousness•of this pro-Gcrjuan plot has been lthtisen for sonie time. in view of Adnii'&l von ('aps:p a assertion :the t Gerrnttny is aseuredi for years .to come of a'bteady supply 'of U-boats which never cease their efforts to get in touch with the Sinn Peiners and separatists, this re- Peat•txa treason must.bo put down with an ur,liathing hatted=' and prevented fr.'•,1 iei erring-. 'Ame-icane witts'ctheir inboi'>Ei` ab- horrence of disleaal anarchism, have hitherto dealt more barsbly with• pro- Gernien,.conspirators than we have llenn w,ttlt thole4:ion` this slclesof the Atlantic . Neveegtlteless, an organized Natione•1'i'st atteilttt is being tither° to mislead and preettdice Amcr1e',,n rp- iltion with regard to the whole 'Irish situation. This attempt will Undoubt- edly be'continued unlese it Is met with stern and cool diecrimination across the Atlaeftic, It can only help to eorve Gerniarlx's ,genie in the nick of Gere matiy's ,tlfne." e Driscoll, of ee, and five other l3inn.FeluersbKholiwere in his house, offered stout resistance to arrest. Driscoll was wounded in the arm by a revolver bullet, Pierce ?1lcCann, son of Francis McCann, Jus- tice of the Peace for Ballyoven house, Cashel, and president of the East Tip- perary Sinn 1"e,a Executive Commit- tee, was arrested Saturday morning Patrick Hogan, local leader of the Irish Volunteers, succeeded in eluding the police at Cashel by jumping through a window and entering the grounds of a convent, from which he made his escape. William O'Brien, Nationalist mem- ber of Parliament for Cork, in a tele- gram to the Evening Herald, said that the first effective answer to the "Oen- teur-like Government, half military and despot, and half sham," would be the unanimous election of Arthur Grif- fith, Sinn Fein candidate for the Par- liamentary seat for East Cavan. The officers of the organization ad- ministering funds to the Sinn Feiners who suffered in the rebellion, were searched by the police as were also the Sinn -Fein headquarters in Har- court street which after the raid dis- played the pot ''B i s ter: us Hess as us uaI." A cheque book and some letters were removed , Count Plunkett, member of Parlia- ment for Roscommon, was arrested here to -night. No further arrests are expected immediately. All remains quiet here. 1N PRO;HIBITED AREA. - London, May 19. --Janes Cotter, of London, and Richard Cotter, Gaelic League organizer in Dublin, have bee" arrested and are charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with taking a boat within 15 miles of Kingstown pier on April 15, that being a prohibit- ed area. Jas Cotter is further charged with collecting information which might be useful to the enemy. It is not stated whether this case has any connection with the Irish con- spiracy, James Cotter was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. stiehard Cot- ter was discharged. According to the prosecuting attor- ney the Cotters were found at mid- night in a boat outside Kingstown barlior, their whereabouts being dis- covered by their burning some papers. James Cotter had in his possession a document bearing on the air reeds on London, the suggestion being that he intended to convey this, to the enemy CAN BE NO EXCEPTION, Glasgow, May 10.—General Smuts, speaking at the Glasgow University, was asked whether Ireland would be an exception to the rest of the Brit- ish Empire this afternoon. "The law of the life admits of no ex- ceptions," sair the old warrior, ''1 am sure it is the Empire's aim to solve the Irish question as the South Afri- can question had been solved." Some people are now talking about a republic of Ireland, General Smuts went on, and are appealing to the enemy and talking of having wrongs righted at the peace conference. 'rhero is no- need to ge to a peace con- ference, General Smuts concluded. They can apply to the Imperial confer- ence. PLOT KNOWN SOME TIME London, May- 19.._' The Observer, commenting on the Irish situation. Much activity was dtsplesee about the Lower Castle disrin the eerie, morning of Saturday among higher officials, the Under-Sacrctary and the chief Commissioner, ,y_tlle army motes lorries were busily, engaged • bete eon the castle and Arhdur Hill barracks and other parts of ►,113 city and sub- urbs, Some rumors .had amen. in circula- tiott relative to 'the contemplated swoop 'by the aitthorlttes, but appar- ently,'the surprise caused by the ar- rests Was complete. Same of the :nen wer°o arrested while in their he 1 , and i'nntriatee of their .houses were ar- oused, by the summons of site military forces and the police. Tho.•first sign of irependin; trouble was in the lssuante. of a proclamation concerning a German plot, which reached the newspaper offices cit about,. midnight. Enquiries were lnacle immediately, and it was ascer- tained that the authorities were act- ive. ° The standing committee of the Dub- lin Mansion I:•Iouso Anti -Conscription Conference mot Saturday morning, 'but adiettrUed ;all, business, pending a special meeting of the eonferaitce to be field on Monday. The irlsh 1'ar- llainenttary party wilt be suminetnecl to discuss the aituatton. • RAIDED CASTLE FOR ARMS, .A daring raid for arms was curried out by Sinn elnera at i#aroncourt `Aati% County Tyrone, the neat of the (:)Mitt of Abereorti. The raiders, wile x are masked, drove to the estate In 'entiderable force by motor eerie Thar tbanpOrarily detained,%, t,kt,ei • FRENCWAIR RAIDS Dil HEAVYb44aI Foe Munition Durnps, Sta- tions and Aerodromes, ai Hun Plane; DOW113 i ire Twra oxides. A Paris cable' • (Reuter' • despatteh): • French airmen kava brought down 42 enemy airplanes during Mares and Aprll as compared with 96 Emmett eirplanea loot la tlttx eland neti3Od,, TIM interiority of the German air service Is Lemming the general;, staff Nese! anxiety. ti` ._4P,prise tkev 17-1''rld4ty ni at's4aV • Offlt o ieliort referring to aerial opera, tutus, said: "Our aviation squadrons have been active, On Tuesday night a number of our eviatora participated in bonl- bardments of she zone occupied by the enemy, 30 000 kilograms of projectiles being dropped on railway stations, communications and airdromes at lit. Quentin, Jassy, 1• la' l le Aiartel. Nesles and Ham; munlitione depots were ex- ploded at Nesies and large fires were observed at Guiscard and (:hatelet. The railway station at Nesles wee bnrned. "On Limn following n1Cht 20,000 kilo• grains were dropped on the same re• glens, and 10,000 kilograms on the regions of Anlage, Buequoy and elent Cornet, On May 16th four enemy air. planes were shot down and three others wore gravely damaged. On the night e. May 16tlt railway stations and German cantonments . at Cheulnes, Roye, N," les and St. Quentin received 25,000 kilograms of projectiles and munition depots were destroyed, Fires poandnts" explosions were caused at other i Miller's Worm Powders not only make the' infantile system untenable for worms, but by their action on the stomach, liver and bowels, they cor- rect suck troubles as lack of appetite, biliousness and other internal disor- ders that the worms create. Children thrive upon thein and no matter what condition their worm -infested stom- achs may be in, they will show im- provement as soon as the treatment begins. -♦ SCORES DEAD IN EXP[OSION Pittsburg Blast's Toll May Reach a Hundred. Two Under Arrest On Sus- picion. Pittsburg, Penn., May 10. --Fifty-six men are known to be dead, ninety-four in - hired oyes of in hospitals, Cremica.lCompany are missing as a result of tate explosions yesterday that wrecked this company's explosive manufacturing plant at Oak- dale, sixteen miles from this city. Throuhoutexnight d all yto- dy menwere extinguishing small* fires In the debris and were bringing out "re - Mains of human betides, logs and arms, hands with finger rings on thenh, and in some instances only incinerated torsos were found, rlbble,sbut In cases osti01 then there was no- thing to indicate the identity of the vic- tim. While earlier explosions wrecked the plant, tho last one, about 6.33 blew the piles of debris clear off the ground and scattered them over more acreage than before, and bla.ciccnecl every piece humia , tal beyond precognition, asanything a blue -brown smoke continued to hang over the ruins considerably impending the work of the searchers. Federal Officers, representing .he De- partment of Justie'+, to -day ordered the arrest of two men w,to were photograph- ing the ruins, and who were charged by a woman with nialc.ng seditious remarks. A special policeman employed by the Aetna Chemical Company arrested two Hien early to -day as they were about to hurry away from the plant on a motor- cycle. The names and charges upon which these men are held are withheld by officiais pending investigation, NO PEACE NOW. Allies Must Carry On, Says Curzon, •. London cable: (Via Reupter's Ot- tawa agency) —Speaking at the Foreign Press Association: luncheon in London, the chairman paid a tribute to Lord Curzon as one of the great men who had shaped, not only the destlntes of India, but of the empire, Lord Curzon, replying said the peace for which wo are righting must satisfy three conditions; It must be just honorable andssecurethe peace of the world for generations from the horrors of future ward, He hoped. that neither the Allies nor neutrals would ever subscribe to the doctrine that an unjust peace was preferable to a just war, as the former would be the procureor of new and 'worse wars, and be a victory for crime, and justi- eteation for renewed crime in •She future. It 'Lavas useless to discuss the de- tails of peace terms at the present times, etahen the voice of the guns drowned all else. The issue was be- coming plainer every clay. It was the duty of the Allied prose to show our enemies that not only were the Allied armies, and navies and governments, but the peoples of the whole civilized wortgieegeminst the -,. to --- --yr a.. • R Atediesisiermicide thereeis no prepare. Mon i.t equals Mother"Graves' Worm Exterminator. It Itas saved the lives of evttntless children es CIRMANYCij .RMANY GUTS FLOUR RATIONS One More Disappointment 'for the •?eople, Little Ukraine 'G e,iI1 Till the Harvest: An Amstordana cable: The German food alopartlnent has ordered a reduc- tion of the flour ration from 200 to 160 gralntlaily per person, ' Conxinsenoing ehiteheile according" tq•'t advi4es from 3eritiffies A gram is 5.6 ounces. °'''heettnntouficemeiit Eby thee depart- Inent •Freaks the twists to th i' German Phonics by saying: "While the supply of promised grain 1l+i?, ; cline call,at), tai,nly_be reck- oned epee, it is uncertain whether such, ruppllea will reach Germany in large amounts before this year's har- vest. ..The reduetipn is node in order to he guile certain of meeting the people's heeds." "(b l$F 3,852 tone•'+of grain have ar- rived in Germany from the "Ukraine." .,maid the 1Soelnischc..Volks Zeitung, a cans' 'of which has been reeefved here. "This .is lessthan op' -fiftieth • of what we ought. to have had by now," the newspaper adds. ' POOP CARGO ON FIRE.: A Canndien A.tlttntte Port, Report --.A etrathee with a cargo of batter, cht'abiye and other ftrodetutfs, valued at a Hill. „11eft. nnuntla sterling, wee. brought Into port `yenterdQ_ y with fire to the bine:er' wed tatr eo, aefore dark the fi: R . n fids cr .eritrtrl, but tell trio cargo twin hsys dt w4t a token Serono th+(r liteetner, lowAy' VALUES UKE WAIL OF IKON IN THEIR STAND Before Which Foe Will Xick Himself to Pieces,. Says Smuts, DECISIVE RESULT Will Come in the War, Great African Leader Says. London, May 10.—(Reuter Dcs- Patch).-°-,Speaking on the occasion of his receiving the freedom of Glasgow, Gen. Smuts said he was very glad that the country now reallzetl the actual situation, There had been a good deal too Much unworthy and unholy pacifism, but to -day all c'asses of the commutl- ity were prepared to sink their differ- ences, combine their energies and do everything possible to secure victory-. That Spirit was the best pledge of vic- tory, which was coming. The German blow was not going to shatter the British army or the British Empire as the Germans expected. It only laid baro the so.ti of the nation in its her- oic fervor, and as /oust as that spirit sults. prevailed Wasit not e thhad ndoubt lironoyof of cre- tato tbat Americans were now coming ov:r in hundreds of thousands, and Ger- man submarines could no nothing to their transports? The submariee cam Paige occurred because the Germane were certain the American army could never reach Europe. The submarines; drove America into the War, yet they eoultI do nothing to prevent Ameri- cans coming to Europe. And so it would be to the end, The enemy would come within an ace of victory, but would not secure in because his cause was wrong. Tho situation would Le Most anxious for many .lays, but the enemy efforts to secure the en r!ro de- feat and extinction of the British army in France would fail. THESE FOOLS ARE WRONG, With regard to some fools saying hat the war was lasting too long eine hat victory was impossible, Gen. nuts said this was a wrong view. He was convinced that the war would have a decisive result one way r another. Other people said ' we roust completely crush the German rnty and occupy Berlin, He was not f that opinion. If the last English oldier was driven from France, Ger- lany would not be in a better pouf-• on than Napoleon in his greatest tory. 11 the Germans scanted to chiewe victory they must win on land nd sea. He did not think an out- and - it victory was possible .for nay group f nations. Then see what (4ermany as after. One had only to lock at the e ussian peace. For the future peace 0 the world they could not allow the resent ;tate of Russia to continue, t he allies would have to +too all their plon'acy to bring the war .to a via- t sous end. d He considered that we had fought s o war up to a stage where the ems was now ready to consider d concede terms. He thought it a ost dangerous thing to go to a ace conference before knowing at their principal terms would be )n nsidered. The conference that IS uld ultimately be called would be s e to 'settle details, which the prin- d al combatants were agreed upon v to the main issues. The people 1 a (.ou.uter were entitled t say td h 'tr Government: 'We expect you x do your fluty as we have done c rs, and to be alive to every open - by which this agony may be end- re and the war brought to a rates- h tory conclusion. We shall do our m tv, and, knowing treat we nro d sting for, shall go ter yard v.ith gn m and confidence." Ito CAN'T GO ALL THE WAY. to enerai Smuts visited Giksgow to se 1111 a number of public engage- un nts. He toured several shipyards it engineering shops, and addressed th hittie ,;attiering of workers In the re ons 1 'airfield Yard during the. wa akfast interval. He was given a M endid reception. he enemy,. said Gen. Smuts, was pi. 'v .delivering his greatest bion, He off achieved •duocess that. few had Fro ught possible at the beginning of ha present offensive, but he hadn't sty o all the way,' and he never would. reverses that we had suffered ar t 0 a 0 ti g a a 05 0 w It of 0 'r di tqr th en an ur Pe th 00 wo or. cip as of tri; to ou ing ed fac du fie cal G ful me and a fain bre spl T no had tho the gon The had, in a sense been very good for us. ou There an e 11 e had been na Iot of °011 f sit talk Ica about beating the Roches and at the same time enjoying all the in-Ivfleges of peace time. The Bache lead knock- T ed all :that nonsense out of our heads. Ne WILL WIN OUT, AUSTRALIANS VICTORS ON AMIENS FRONT Storm; and Capture Ville sur-A.ncre, North of Morlancourt. UN RR1VE NEAR But Allies Are Pully Pre. pared and Will Stand Firm. Lonvlon, May 1 he village of Ville -sur Ancre, -north of lorlancourt, on the Amiens front, has been re* captured by the British, the Austral -- inn troops making a successful raid ruring the night, in which they took 360 prisoners and 20 machine guns. According to Field Marshal Halg's re- port to -night, the casllaitics on the 13ritsh side in this operation were light, The text of the report reads: The enemy's new offensive against the western front is deemed here to be imminent, The French and Brit- ish are fully prepared to meet the new onslaught, which they know will have the same character as the offensive launched on March 21. The Wonderful work and activity shown by the aviation service of both belligerents seem to predict an tips Preaching German attack in big style, Ever since the lull began in the fight- ing operations in the Somme area the artillery, both allied and German, sae shown considerable activity, each side pounding away at its adversary's rear communications. There have been, in addition, a few raids, the majority of which were designed to get informa- tion of the enemy's plats and move- ments, This was during the dell, rainy weather. "rho delay le regurtletl l.ri proof that the German Woes, t, lily Amounting to 450-,t14'1 re ^ 'eau t heavy that the en Hun arm cu this front had t 1 et.J• ;ankle(, Replete ,i nir at); esetone fleet Russia; are do etc for that front cannot be entirely unguarded. Some troops, t has been learned from Priem 'lase come from this Verdun for and some from the Chtlmpa well° drafts have been blade the training camps of the boys rtl.+ J'l:l class, who were called Lilo colors s0111e lnontbs ago. "The British Po longer can separated from the French, even a succeesful enemy advance al the Somme, for French troops scattered throughout the Brit trent and Americans, too, as not'z'eed this morning, are fight with the British and Frenoh . tenet is. "The British front has been sh tened a bit by those accessions, well as by the aelgiane, who h just taken over a couple of ntilea m south 13 h lige no wgbegins atop lkeniho miles north of Ypres, swinging aro the latter city at about that dicta and turning southwest at Dieklebu Lake to the road near Kimmel Ir La -Clytee to Lecr°. which the Fren hold, then con'inufng southwest Itobecq, below the Lys, where it to east to Loeon and then southwest the old line, south of Givenchy, low the canal of Lit Basset)." BRITISH REPORTS, London, :day 19. --Sunday nice War Office report read: nigh lataVille sue-sueduring was t'0 pietely successful. Australian troo carried'. the German positions in s around the village, which Is now our possession and captured 3 primers and 20 machine guns, i) casualties wore light. "W carried out successfthily raid to -day on a Hostile pest lout west of Meteren and inflicted rano, ties An the garrison, he there wtas onlyinder of the artilleryactivitvfroc both sides in the different sectora," The Sunday enterprise was succee sly undertaken by us last night 1 e neighborhood of Ville -sur -Actor orth'vest of Mori,ncohtrt• 'tor pas ons In this locality have been i roved and a number of prisoner nd machine guns have been cap red by our trccps. "Successful raids, in which we cap tured a few prisoners and four ma Chine guns, were carried out by u also northwest of AIbert and in th neighborhood of Hamel. "A raid attempted by the enem rtbeast of Bethune was repulse our fire before reaching our linea, Saturday night's report said: "Success:MI raids, in which we too number of prisoners and two ma int) guns, were carried out the orning in daylight in the Meilen in sector and south of 1•Iulluch the former enterprise Australia 0 oruh p sed a hostile post wes Morlancourt village, and. taking garrison by surprise, captured 2 sorters and a machine gun without miring any casualties themselves 'The hostile artillery was same at more active this morning in the lers-Bretonneux sector." ;#! NEW PROOF. OF APPAWNG thee lore, GERMAN LASSES ON WEST lore, see- gno. 011 of to b an are is an 10 cit or - ave OTO rit- wo and lice, eels all) nj) to rlls to be t.'lli he n- ps nd 1 60 .I l' 11- 11t n 1, u 0. •m- • s s e k s Australian 7 e lie y g fu tri n ti p WHERE FOE- WILL STRIKE, - to Since the advent of . fine, w weather our aviation branch has to over the work of watching the G mans making preparations and sembling troops and material. greatest activity of tho Germans reported to be in the north, oppo the Ypres salient, also betw Amiens and Moitdidier. No doubt exists here that the G mans have not changed their obi tives, which splicer to remain same—teat is, Amiens, in the hope separating the left flank of the all army from its centre and rigtht, a the Channel ports, with the intents of stopping the transport of Brit troops and munitions. The allied military chiefs are ji • 'optimistic as they were at the ginning of the German offensi Though the allied armies retreated March and April, they were not be n, nor could the Germans claim a ther victory than the capture of a f. miles of desolate soldiers know wh hey are going to face and are pr ared to meet any new onslaught, d ermined to make the enemy p oubie the price he has paid before t lightest gain in ground, MAKING ROOM FOR WOUNpED During the I ill tiie Germans ha. een actively engaged in evacuatin leld ambulances and hospitals ake room for the victims of th aiser's next drive. Worn out div. ions have been reconstituted with th ebrls from other muck exposed d inions, while the Krupps and oth. mportant munition factories ha; con working feverishly, building gun ed making munitions with which t art's them, In ail -this time the allies have no malned inactive. Hundreds an undreds of French guns have bee oved forward into the battle line eat efending units also have been mve. d regrouped. Furthermore an int rtant step has been taken in regar. French aviation. The whole of thi. rvice in the future is to be placer der a single command. Col. Oho is thought, will have command o is important branch,. and will be di etiy responsible to the Minister o r, • AY EXTEND TO ITALIAN FRONT Military critics in the French ess think that the new German ensive will ,,extend to the Italian nt, where • the Austrians lately ve shown ase much artillery activ- On the other hand. the Italians t keeping careful watch, carrying t numerous raids on the foe's Iines d bombarding his ,lute cons gun• tions and troop concentrations, 31 I)AYS TOO LATE. he military critic of the Baily ws writes: 'All in:lleaiions are that the new aek will ,come against the, British nt. between the Lys and the time, whish includes the neck nista the bulges formed by trio n drive in Picardy and that fur- y north in Flanders, This neck, oucthed by the operations of the two Months. embraces the area todiately south of the canal of 7'.aesee, • the positions around • and the famous Vinty Ridge bort.' el. Arras. That the Germans will attempt a tai Attack on those heights is not ides, -n probable. They are more ly to try to turn Lens and Vimy an to west of La Batson g the southern edge of the .Platt - salient. Such a move. if no- rm, would unit the two bulges, `ghten out the line. requiring less ps to man it; include the rapture hie base it Arres and s'oid the suit water erosstngs of the ,pe, while continuing the threat at the Channel ports, 1 een„ di - toward :`t. Vol, the junction , rallro td which connects Amiens ('ala is, tit theGermane are too late. delay • caht•tctl by their enormous s in their flet drives no shook morale of the IGaiser',s a.rniiee, es depicting their numbers, the last three weeks have been ell . in necessary recanatritctiont :is, talhnttered into fragments British at d Frrlieln artillery. e was only an • interval of four between the climax of the drive (tardy !-nd the beginning of that lendere. 'Witch was of far les! L. Ilut now there hats been a e CeT; dys onelnee the r y fronit nes had previously been belted on Sontriaa arta ken. er- as- The is site eon er- ec- the of icy nd 0n ish tlat 1 We are now in the war up to our ea necks," continued the general; "and fro have to strain every nerve to wih. If Scl we do that the result will be certain. joi gizreat ea dangers ahead of civilization. The enemy has made us realize the The Americans have now fully real. :tiiinnielti this, and are coming over in tens of thousands monthly to 'bear their fair and proper share of the int etruggie." Lett The speaker said tb.at he knew all just the workers were feeling the 'mosey " burdens, but It WAS better to live in resin such times than in ordlnary times whets nothing really happened. On the other hand, to -day great /settee. were ey at stake, mid if they did their duty, they might look forward, to great Al°1/ good Civilization had been worked up to a paint where the etruggle was target:meeting of workers in the yard of alevere, Brown Se Co. Reterring to centrated effort and he appealed to them to make It. . worthy of the higheet and mot ton - General Smuts addressed another fs,10.11altri the neteseity of breaking the military es a pincer. of Germany to prevent i'uture be possible in the lot of men so lotfg sji as (Mr ehildreif 'Were driVOtt to the ;1::::e slaughter and we heyei.to work.year after year in order to be food for pow. the der,"•The 'enemy was now attempting nesid by' on our re et his gigautic Mows to hreak the, 'dothiltatit milifery power of the world, .12 ,"Let. hiM ;Strike," declared General eY Win bretik and'ho will tee that it itt In S' ,like a Wall of iron mut allow him to ohys Imposible to win." Smuts; "we will stand in the breaelt :Tvx.hate:oerk kielt himself to pieces. Then his spirit n Pi 1511, ( rt, trio* .1)k it Met yield to 1I01- • 'they reattett hose deethrooted the Cern no by oh 001 In tro of the ori Inc tvh Vii FRENCH REPORT. Saturday night's statement read: "There were lively artillery ac- tions north of the Avre and in the Champagne sector in the region of Massiges. Our patrols brought in prisoners between. Lassigny and Noyen, Two enemy airplanes were shot. dowo Oa May 10th, and an- other during the night of May ltith- "Eastern Theatre, May 17th. — There was feeble artillery. activity east of the Vardar. On the rest of. the front there was a number of Patrol engagements, in which the enemy was repuleed, near Debra - pone and northeast of Mouastir." Opted Hardly Live for Asthma. Writes one man who, after years of suffering, has found coinplete relief through Dr. 1 D. Kellogg's Asthma Beettedy. NoW he knows how needless has been his suffering. Thlit match- less remedy gives sure help to all afflicted wtth asthma, Inhaled as smoke or vapor it brings the help so long needed. Every dealer litts it or ean get it for you from Ilia WilOte• BRITISH ROOTED HUNS IN AFRICA Rallied After Retreat an4 .1 Soundly Beat Foe, Led . by the Chief German London, .,‘lay 11—British troops campaigning against the G'erman East African forces have won another sue- cese after heavy fighting, and inflict- ing heavy 'losses on the Germans, it is officially announeed. The engagement began when 4 sinall body of British Arrican riflemen stirprIsed an important German camp and set the huts on fire, The Ger. mans counter -attacked, and the- Brit- ish force fell back fighting heavily air day long. Before the day was over, however, the British rallied their fames, and the fleeting ended with the defeat of the (S•ernians, who sus- tained heavy lows. The'text of the statement reads: "Severe fightingloeit piaee on May 5th at a point some miles west of Nartunga. In the yielnity of the lat- ter locality the bulk of the remaining German torce was cencentrated. the - date .mentioned a small body Of the Xing's Afrieen Rifles, formate the advance troope of Major-General NortheY',9 tome, surprised' an import- ant German .eamp and entered it and fired the huts. It was strongly tennis ter -attacked. Palling back on the supports, our small force was heavily - engaged throughout the day at verY close quarters, eventually defeating* tiles -enemy completely and driving him eff • te the northeast with severe "In the, engagement the enemy was commanded by Gen. von Lettow Vorveek in person. The eonvergent the On foe the Fartner—eA bottle of l)r. Thornton Ecleetric Oil the farm Name will tele many a joerney for the dotter. It is not only good for the children when tekett with cold* and drtnitt, fald for the Mature, who suffer from nettle and *whets, but there art dire:Gone for ite Use On sick cattle, There Should always be a bottle ist it in the hones, A, London cable: The most definite figures yet announced regarding Oer- elated Prase. Shine the beginning of the offensive on Mareh 21, 200 Gorman divisions have been on the western front, of which 120 actually hltve been engaged an the Somme ani Amigo' tieres fronts. The zoth Gorman division, which ivas one of Ogee suffering most heav- ily, lost 70 per cent, of its effeetivoe. Seven otber German divisione are known to have lost More than 50 per cent., and at least oven other dive osloonpserarreenttl.anted as having lost 40 to and there are nitres of inetancee et companies and hattalIone, wilicit dia. appeared almoot completely. list of losses to German regiments and divieione engaged in the offeneive, which have been aubstantiated by British intelligence officers, there le eeercely a single instance Where the lows were pot so large as 10 gauss iserlotte crippling of the efficieney the unit. Male it is impossible to make from the total German loestee, it is earls ciently evident that the enen1S casual. tiete have been exceedingly hem. One evidence of this fact is that the Gets OnlY fortY mon to the comPany were leans, atter calling upon an available left in the 119th division after the reserve depots in, the western area, fighting of March 22 and 23. Tito ave ab eady been compened to draft atter reaching Sailly.Lattrette ou ' from Germany itself, including these March 28, and the eneith division 'was of the 1920 class, Prom this it ratlY weakened similarly on April 6. One be concluded that the demand for men regiment of the 4th Ersatz divielon to replace losses has been ereater thau virtually was annihilated on April 9, reserve centres could se.pply. GERMAN TANKS WERE NO MATCH FOR BRITISH 1AND BATTLESHIPS First Pitched Battle Ended in Complete Rout *of the A London cable: German tank.% which made their first appearance on the western front during the receat German offensive, came off second best in their encounters with the more powerful and bettor managed British Full accounts have just reached the British general. staff here of the first pitched battle between German and British tanks, in which a squadron of six German land ships was routed completely by the British. The bat- tle occurred an April 24, near Villers- Bretonneux, south of the Sonutle, bix German tauks appeared in front of the British line shortly before noon, and started to roll up the flanes of the' British infantry positions, A call for help was sent to the nearest British tank, and a squadron, including both "male" and "female" tanks, shortly appeared on the scene. A rough and tumble combat ensued. The British female tanks, which ap- peered, first, were out -fought, but tile arrival of the heavier male tanks cent- pletelsi changed the situation, and the Germane fled,- after receiving a bad beating. Meanwhiiei the Britieh had brought up seven of the new fast cruisers type, called "Witinpettanks",which debouch- ' ed and attacked the enemy's etfantrY positions an a ridge, following up the German line from the north, It de- veloped that this ridge was held by a The whippets ran from shell hole to line of machine gun posts, while be- yond the erest a large German force was massing in the open for an attaek. obeli hole, inflicting terrible casual- ties, and coMpletely disorganizing the enemy's preparations for attack. These seven tanki, each with a full crew of twenty men,Inflicted mare than four •hundred casualties on the enemy in this engagement, while the casualties 'on board the tanks were only five Men, The tanks left their base shortly before noon, and were back at their base again by 3 o'clock One officer of the general staff, com- menting on•this engagement to the Ate "The British tank has justified it- self. The Germans have adopted them, but there is yet no evidence they have any large' number available With the start which. sve have In tank construction we should be able to pre - "The results 4 our employment of tanks are more encouraging in view of the man. power question and we ought to derive still more benefit from them in future." FOE'S RATIONS BIIITISH FLIERS ON WEST CUT RAM COLOGNE German Soldiers There Are On Short Commons. Got But Little in Their Big Factories and Barracks in Foe City Bombed. Heavy Damage Done There Assault. and Elsewhere. With the British Army in France Saturday, May 18.—Beyond artillery activity the allied .front between ielanders and Amiens has been ab- selutely quiet. Many mare aerial patties have taken place in the last two days, ands a number of German machines have been driven down. temicel flights over tee regions I.e.- h in d the allied ;Mee, especialle s,ong the Somme 'Valley weet of Amiens, for the purpose of recce.- nalosance. No intantry movement, aowever, has been attempted. The 13ritish batteries maintain a 3toady and harassing fire on ail roads and assembly places, This a,: sas deetroyed concentrations of troop' bringing,up of ammunition, food awl ziiinest.erfeireci materially with the The German soldiers have been put en reduced brt rationn. het' were promised that the offensive which began March 21, wotild bring them into a country yielding nein- none! quantities of tome The cap - lure of same British canteene and transport wagons containing sup- plies tended to confirm this Promise and whetted the appetites of roc teen for a square meal, The meagre spoils of the fleet drive, however, were speedily exhaustztd, and since then the troops have had to sub- sist on what rations. could be brought through the British barrage. Cu the ehole, they have not been starved, but there is great discontent owing to the failure to tmprove their feed. During March the bread allowance was reducet! from 1,500 •to 1.400 grammes POP Mall making the daily ration half a loaf of only 700 instead o! 750 grammes. Despite repeate,1 pro- tests tine has not been inereese 4. Tee men have been told that they must , London, May 19.—A successful raid was cameo. out eaturciay on railway stations, factories and barracks at Cologne. Thirty•three bombs were uropeed and were seen to explode on railway sheds. The bombing machines were attacked by several hostile scouts, two of which were driven down out of control. All the Britiell air- planes returned safely, according to the official statement on aerial operations issued by the War Office Fourteen persons were killed and emore than torty others were injured when the Entente .Allied airplanes rattled Cologne on Saturday, according to a despatch from Amsterdam to the Central News Agency. Six allied avia• tore participated in the attack. Mucit damage Was done in the centie of Oologne,, especially in the market operations in the air. Oser twenty• two tons of bonibs were dropped on Tournai, Courtrai and the Chaulnes railway station, as welt as on several hostile airdromes and billets all alone: the front. The ntatement eentinties: "Hostile a,ircraft were not as aetive as on pre. vioue days, although large formation's of C.erman machines were encountered well east of the line. Nineteen hOs'ile. airplanes were shot, down and tour driven down ottt of control. Ten of otirs are missing.. "Oyer ten tons of bombs were drop. lied on the railway statiee at Metz. Several bursts Isere seen on the tracks and on factories elongside tha railroad. An our machittes rettireed, "During the night our airplahea dropped ten tons ot bombs on Chatilnes, and the Douai and Mar - mine statione, on Permute and tar - Raids were also carried ort durieg the hight on the ritionvilie taut 'Metz t•all• wny etatiOne. Thirty-two heavy bombs were obtained.' A fire wait started et Otte of our =chino failed HERRING STE IS AN OPTIMIST Alt .ent 'lenient cable :"I am still op - theistic enough to believe we shall stave peace. this i -ear," said the Ger- man Chancellor, Count Von Horning, it an interview with the iterlin cor- respondent ..of the Budapest news- paper Az HSU "I cherish firm. cons Mono that further events in the west will bring us nearer a speedy end of the war. "If the world ebould one day unite In an international Deere league," added Count von Hertling, "GernIatlY vould ttliheettatitigly anti joyfully join In it, Unfortunately, political condi. Bona give very little hope of thttt. •Our deeire is to win and preeerve Mare," Great bodice mole elowly, ti ert the Oath. The last British aerial raid on A Pill for Ditto Workere—The man vvho works with hitt brains is Mnts liable to derangement of the digestrre eyetem than the matt Who works with hie hands, beeause the one calls uuott tierVoutt energy, while the other Applies only his muscular strength. Drain fag beget* irregularitlae 01 the %stomach and -liver, and the beet tette- tly that can be used is Partnalse's Vegetttble Pills, They are specialty eolePOunded for stitch estate and all their stoerior power, Isto human being ean hear a steeds view of moral solitude without gala, Mad ee-Ven red