Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-19
ANOTHER GERMAN
RETREAT EXPECTED
Behind Tcuton Lines Torch of
Destruction Again Is
Put to Work.
ADMIT LOSS OF BULLECOURT
Crown Prince Continues Fruit
less Assaults Against
French Line.
ADMIT LOSS OF BULLECOURT

LONDON. My ls.-"Thc ruins of tho
former yr1agc OF Buliccourt we're
evacuated according to command with
out disturbance OF tho enemy. who
only established himself there twenty
four hours later"
In these words. the German War
Office to-day announced the abandon
ment of the shattered hamlet Just vest
of the lower end OF the Wotan line
where one continuous battle had ragged
from May 10 May ~. two fun weeks
1t WAS in almost the identical words
that Berlin exactly two months ago
announced tho evacuation of the viii
laGc Of Grandcourt in the Picardy
which ushercd in his now famous re-
treat Another retreat. this time by
the two wings Of his lire. is now
looked for as a certainty. Lens is
ailamc, and behind tho Tcuton lines
tho torch Of destruction has been nut
to work again
On the French front. north of the
AiSnc and in the Champagne the Ger
man Crown Prince continued to-day
his counterthrusts. particularly on both
sides Of the road of the ladies'" None
of these assaults made any IMPRESSION
upon the French lines. Paris reported
Berlin. however. reported the rcpulsc
OF French attacks. and the capture by
Iierlm and Brandcnburg troops of a
trench east of La Raycrc farm.
The capture OF Bullccourt has
brought the British TO within two miles
"f Qucant. on the northern side of the
famous switch line. Thci. guns have
already encircIcd il at an equal dis
tance TO the south and cast. and oniv
"a narrow gateway to the northwest
i'cS oDcn to the. German garri.ou
Eullocourt itself over which much
blood has flowed. stands on a height
overlooking Il broad valley " hich runs
directly TO Qucant. 1t presumably will
take some time for the British to cs-
'abliah their heavy guns on this
height but the fate of Qucant seems
sealed
BntTIsU HEAVY ARTILLERY
Co-oPERATING WITH ITALIANS
British heavy artillery is co-operat-
ing with the Italians in their latest
attempt to drive tho hustriuns from
tho line OF tho Isonzo.
Against the combined British and
Italian artillery fire. the Austriana
have failed in attempts to recapturc
lost ground between Gurizia and Toll
m;no
Jndcr The cover "f the artillery. the
Italians arc terrifying captured posi-
tons and preparing for another for
ward movement. Rome reports the
capture "f nearly $500 prisoners
Dense German formations, Pciro-
grad says. have attempted an attack
against Russian positions near shell
rov. in tho region of Nladimir.Vulyn-
ski. Nolhynia
The British light cruiser Dartmouth
was damaged by Il torpedo and other
entente vessels were damage ed or de-
s;roycd in "a raid by an Austrian naval
detachment on the coast OF Southern
Italy and i'll a running fight that fol-
lowed The Austrian force was driver
toward cattaro. by a combil.cd Brit
ish. ltal alian and French force and
forced to take refuge there. with one
cruiser seriously damaged.
The British steamship Camcronia of
nearly 1000 tons gross. and used by
the British Admiralty as transport.
has been sunk. One hundred and forty
men from tho vessel arc missing