The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-30

BOTH SIDES CERTAIN
Of yEROuN VICTORY
Russians Smash Teutonic Often
sive IN Region Of Lake Drizvla-
tH While Austrians Continue
To Hammer Away At italians
.tAs.ociA.sd Press BY Federal wireless,

tAssocia.ed Press by Federal wirsIess)
n oNDoN, May 20 While the situa.
, ton in the Balkans has again be
come threatening and the Allies
aud the Central Powers are both pre-
pairing TO strike there, the fighting in
the neighborhood of Verdun continues
with unabated fury. Is
French and German dispatches claim
successes in the attacks and counter.
attacks that keep the line swayinQ back
and forth, like the swing of pendu-
lum- Both sides deny that the enemy
has made definite gains and each side
lclaims gains for its own lighting men.
The probability is that both sides are
acorreet In the reports they issue, deal
ing with actions in sectors removed
from those where losses have been sus-
tanned. 81 49,,
No Great Changes Probable "a
4 1t lis certain, however, that the strug-
gle has been productive If no great
changes one way or the other. Tho
gains and losses, whatever they may
have been, are und oubtedly small and
of minor importance. Reports say that
in France there is marked and grow
ing feeling against the continuance of
the present methods of attack and de-
Tense at Xerdun, and q wish that new
tactics may be adopted that will force
the issue. France is confident as ever,
since the first ten days or the VeIdun
struggle showed that the German might
had been matched, that she is going
TO win at Verdun and that the Grown
Prince has shot his bolt and can do no
more. r.. =. ,...+ .'.",,.. -.
Both Sides CONFIDENT -.
while the censorship over the dos
patches from Germany is, much. moro
strict than that in France, the same
feeling Is manifested in some of the
statements that are allowed to come
from Berlin, The Teutons, likewise
confident of victory as they are, want
to see n definite result attained by their
armies, and are beginning to show signs
of an impatience at the delayed decision
at VeTdun. ~ ,taah&I- .@as ~.
Berlin yesterday in the official des-
patches that were sent out by wire.
less, reported minor operations in the
vicinity of Verdun.s In some sectors
of the line the offensive has evidently
passed, for the time ut any rate, to
the French! n. -! 3D.. J.f.N DE sr1'
infantry Assaults Repulsed
The Official German announcements tell
of having "repulsed repeated infantry
assaultso against =" positions upon the
southwestern slop Of lie Mort Homme,
and near Cumieres village. - These az
taoks, the communique continues, cost
the French attacking columns heavily,
and were productive of no real result.
In the Champagne district, to the
west of the Verdun battlefield; there
have been some minor engagements,
but if the reports tell all the facts,
nothing of any real military import
ance. The Germans night before last
apparently sent out "a number of recon
noitering parties, some Of which man
aged TO evade the watehfulness of the
French sentries and succeeded in get
ting well inside the French line, cap
turing about 100 prisoners. #'-
Farther eastward the Germans
launched series of assaults against
the French lines in Alsace, near Null
hansen, only to break down completely
under the concentrated fire of the
French artillery and machine guns.
Il n NOHou hubnluH .iNohb thO beihBBO
is still of a comparatively minor ma
'tnre, involving nothing of a vital inn
hportanee. taEF$ - q a't'E
|saermah offensive Smashed =. /"
The German offensive in the region
iof Lake DTizviaty, which has been
forming for several days, was utterly
smashed by, the Russian rife fire, and
ieonnter- ttacks, and elsewhere on that
Eline thu battling has been confined to
ARTILLERY engagements of more or less
vigor, and trench attacks. ~. ".
THE Austrians continue pounding at
the Italian line in southeast Trent, hut
the Latin forces apparently have stiff
fened considerably, and are declared to
be holding their foes STEADILY every.
where, and even to be able IN places
to force the AustriaRs back slightly. p
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