Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1917-05-24
Forestal German Attack, De-
molish Machine-Gun Nests,
Launch Counter Assault
and Capture 1000 Prison
ers Principal Contests
Over Observation Points.
(By the Associated Press,


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(By the Associated PressS
On the French Front in
France, May %, from Staff Cor
respondent Of the Associated
Press.-Von HindeKburg, him
self, is understood to have been
a spectator of the French victor
les yesterday evening on the
Moronvilliers range, which re-
suited in the capture of several
lines of German trenches and a
number of important observa-
tion points. The German COM
1nander is known to have been
just northward of this section on
Sunday. His presence is sup
posed to have been in connection
with an attack on the French line
which the Germans intended to
deliver Tuesday morning. The
French forestalled them and, af-
ter demolishing German ma
chine-gun nests and other de-
fenses with artillery, launched
an assault which was so brilliant
ly successful that more than
1000 Germans were captured.
At the same time the French OBJ
tanned elbow room for future OPP
5eratiiUTIs. -.,-.e@- .--s'-',
AS I, outlined Is tie correspondent
today, the operation in this region
developed into struggle for OBJ
servation points," possession Of
which is indispensable under present
conditions of warfare. On the for
ward drive on Moronvilliers range,
the French captured all those posi-
tions dominating this territory.
From them they are able to watch
the movement of German supply col
umns. and reinforcements and thus
: harass and make precarious the
German hold on the Rheims plains.
The system of Notifications en-
countered by the French in their ad-
vance was more formidable than any
met before that time but the clever
maneuvering of their infantry and
the fire of their artillery overcame
the difficulty. Thus the French were
able to resist victory at cost
amounting to one-fifth that Of the
Germans.
The second phase Of the great
battle of the Arras, the Aisne
and Champagne has ended in the
complete failure of the most de-
termined and costly German ef-
forts to stem the tide of victory
now setting against them. The
net results of Field Marshal Hin
denburg's efforts to regain the
initiative has been that the
French and British have tight
ened their grip on his line and
have placed in great peril the key
position held by the Germans in
northern France.
The customary lull which sep
arates all major operations in mod
ern warfare has now come and the
expectation is that It will be broken
by q British blow on great scale
against Droicourt-Queant line al
ready practically outfanked. In the
meantime the usual crop of peace
rumors which marks these lulls has
made it's appearance. Reports from
all kinds of sources, unofficial, semi
official, inspired" and the like, tell
of offers from Austria to Russia,
Germany to Russia, and Austria and
Germany to the collective Entente
powers. The unnamed diplomats
who apparently infest Switzerland,
are unusually active; there is Moth
ing tangible or authentic to show
what these reports are worth:
The latest German-spanish trou-
BE has subsided with the receipt by
Madrid from Berlin Of the note which
Premier, Prieto, y anne 4 ounces g aatis-
factory. Germany ! romises to re-
spect, spain's ri ghts il her territorial
waters. III .Ss ,slts NJ