The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-23
Win Strategic Positions Held BY
Germans Northeast Of Dis
mantIed Fortress After Bitter
Struggle and Paying Big Cost
BERLIN REPORTS CAPTURE
OF 1900 PRISONERS
Russians Successfully RepuIse
Attacks Made Against Lines In
0vinsk Region; Announce Gains
In Caucasus lnWar With Turks
ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal wireIsss)

ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal wireless)
7 ONION, May 22.-The French are
eOuntering hard on the Germans
at Verdun, according to Official
rrports issued last night BY the Paris
var office. THE Official communicate an.
nOunees the capture of two German
trenches and the important strategic
positions north of Houdremont, where
eighty prisoners and a number Of ma.
chine guns were taken by the attack
ers.
The fighting on several sectors of
the Verdun front began again yester-.
day morning early, and continued
fiercely during the day. On the road
between Esnes and Haucourt, west of
the river Mouse, the French counter.
attacked the Germans, beating them
out of trenches they had captured, and
forcing them back to their original
lines. The lossasI On both sides are
reported to have, been heavy.
Northeast of the former French fort
ress the defenders attacked the Teutous
in the strategic positions surrounding
the old quarries near Haudremont
Here the fighting, which was preceded
by heavy artillery bombardmepts, was
notably hot, and the Germans were
unable to withstand the rush of the
Preach infantry.~ Four machine guns
were taken besides a number of prison
ers.
French Prisoners Taken
Berlin dispatches claim notable
gains in this section of the French
front. The official statement says that
the Crown Prince has taken 1900 pri-
scners, including sixty-one officers, a
large number machine guns and
eight cannon.
The French Official statement saws
nothing regarding this gain, combining
itself to declaring that "on the re-
mainder of the front the fighting was
mainly by artillery, save for the num-
Der of aerial combats recorded"
The aerial fighting yesterday was ex-
cessivefy active. A squadron Of Ger
man aeroplanes sailed over the Chan
mel port of Dunkirk night before last,
dropping a number of high explosive
bombs. Twenty shells were dropped in
all, killing four and wOunding fifteen.
Yesterday the attack was renewed by
another squadron, which dropped az
least one hundred bombs on the out
skirts Of The city, killing two soldiers
and child and wounding twenty
others.
Teuton Birdmen Killed
A feet of allied planes rose to the
attack of this second squadron, and a
desperate aerial fight followed, in
which two of the German aeroplanes
we're shattered by rife fire, and brought
10 the ground
Early yesterday morning, immediate
~ after the night air raid by the Ger
mans squadron of ffty,three allied
aeroplanes flew over the German can
comments at Wywege and Ghistelles,
Belgium dropping 25O bombs, with
great effect
Georges Boillot, the French winner of
the grand prize of the Paris automo-
bile club for 1912 and 1918, was killed.
yesterday in an aerel duel between his
machine and five German aeroplanes of
the latest model The unequal fght
ended with the plunge of Boillot to the
ground.
Airmen Raid Cairo
On the other fronts the German avi-
qtors are also reported to be active.
Cairo was attacked aerially yesterday
by squadron of TeutOuic and Turkish
aerOplanes, which flew above the city,
dropping explosives Two were Killed
and number not reported, were
wounded.
Upon the eastern front the Germa MS
have renewed their offensive against
the Russians holding the positions in
the vicinity Of Illeukst. north Of Lake
Illsen. The heavy columns and artillery
attacked furiouSIy but were driven
hack with enormous loss by the Mus
eovfte troops, who held their ground
with ease, according to reports from
Petrograd. In the region Of the
Dyinsk, north Of Lake Miadziel, the
Germans attacked again, the TeutOnic
ipfantry making use Of explosive bul.
Tets, in their effort to break through
the Russian defense.
Slavs Report Advance
The official Petrograd statement does
not mention the juDcture of the cav,
airy column sent by the Grand Duke
Nicholas, and the British force under
General Sir George Corringe, but il an
nouneed that the Ottoman armies OBJ
Grating in defense of Mosul, and the
Bagdad railroad have been driven still
farther south aud west, and the Rus
SLAMS are continuing to advance in the
direction of the city and the last line
of communications between the Turks
in MesopOtamia and their base of sup
plies in COnstantinOple.