The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-14
Brings Total Dirigibles De-
strOyed During War Up to 80.
Is Sixth Zeppelin Brought
Down Over North Sea.
FORGING AHEAD AT ARRAS
In Face of Fiendish Fighting
British Steadily Advance.
Village of Roeux Becomes
Seething Battle Center.

London, May 14.-The German Yep
pelin Log was destroyed in the North
sea early this morning by British naval
forces, an admiralty statement an
nounced today.
The Zeppelin destroyed today brings
the total number reported destroyed
and lost since the beginning of the
war up to thirty-nine. Reports of all
but two have been confirmed.
OF these six were brought down dur
ing raids over London, seven in Bel
GUM, five in France, six in Russia,
six over the North sea, one i'll Norway,
one in Denmark, one in Saloniki and
six on German territory.
OF the six destroyed in Germany,
four were wrecked by allied aviators
and two destroyed by storms
Fourth Disaster This Year.
London, May 14.-Progress in the
village of RoeuX was announced by
British Field Marshal Haig today.
Northeast of Eppy and to the north
| of Ypres hostile raids at night were
repulsed," he reported. "A few were
| taken prisoner. AT Roeux we progress
ed during the night in the villages"
Roeux has been storm center of
| fighting for the past three or four
days. AS at Fresnoy and Bullecourt,
| the German cOunter-attackS there
| have been almost continuous and the
| fighting of greatest intensity. RoeuX
| is one of the key points in the Oppy
supplemental line of German defense
BY progressing in Roeux and main
tanning an unbreakable hold on Bulle-
court, the British today have grip
on two parts of the Wanted linden
burg line. The Oppy front is a So
called switch line to the main Ger
man positions. Bullecourt itself lies
directly on the Hindenburg line.
Pound at Gates of Queant.
In the face of blazing oil. liquid fire
poison gas and every other horror
| known to modern war the British are
| slowly and stubbornly fighting their
way to the Drocourt-Queant line, the
| gate to Douai and Cambria and the
! principal link in the letters welded in
northern France by the Germans. Cen
eral Haig is hammering all along the
| line but it is around Queant, at its
southern extremity, that his success
| has been most marked and the CORE
spending menace to the Germans
greatest.
Queant is virtually pocketed. To
| the east, west and south. the road is
| clear to the British, as far as barriers
are concerned, except for part of the
village of Bullecourt. After some OF
| the grimmest fighting on the western
| front the British have driven their
! foes from one-ha1f of Bullecourt and
| village is lost to the Germans and the
| crushing in of the southern end of the
Drocourt-Queant line is inevitable.
A ray of sunshine also has fallen on
British arms at sea. The great Ger
| man submarine base at Zeebrugge and
| the naval stronghold at Wilhelmshav-
en- have been assailed from sea and air
with apparently notable success. Zee
| brugge is an absolutely artificial har-
Dor called into existence on the flat
I 1xE net of Rail Ixr
| gencieS of submarine warfare and
practically depending on it's being on
great mole. This mole is said to
have been reached by the British guns
and the Germans must quickly repair
the gap or the sitting sands will COM
plete the work of destruction COM
menced by the British gunners
Italians Bombard Austros.
The only incident of moment in the
| other war theaters is a fresh Austrian
report of a great artillery lombard
men by the Italians on the Isonzo
front This may mean that the long
inactivity of General Cadorna is about
to. be broken. The Italian situation
has been wrapped in considerable OBJ
security and there have been uncom-
/ Portable rumors that the chaos in
I Russia was inspiring the central pow
! ers to mass forces for a great drive
against Italy. These rumors have been
somewhat offset by the accommodating
evidence that Austria is seeking in ev-
cry direction, path to peace and is
willing to make great concessions to-
ward that end. Thus the announced
= visit of Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg to Vienna assumed consider
able importance.
The fury of the German junkers
against the Austrian attitude obvious
/ ly is increased by their conviction
L