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offensive Saturday, nearly one thousand
Germans nave been captured.
Although unofficial adViceS are to
the effect that RoeuX is the scene of a
titanic struggle, the official reports
make no mention of the fact.
From the bend in the line northeast
of scissors well into the Champagne
the air resounds with the roar of the
big guns of the French and Germans.
There is little infantry activity
throughout these regions, although
northwest of Rheims the French have
gained considerable ground in an iso-
lated attack and taken prisoners.
The expectation in Pek'r~ is that
China within two weeks will declare
war on Germany. Already a special
commission for international affairs
has advised the government that China
should take her place beside the United
States and the entente allies as an an
tagonist of Germany and parliament is
soon to decide finally the question of
China's participation.
Germany during the first two months
of her unrestricted submarine warfare
has sunk freight vessels aggregating a
tonnage of 1000. 000-more than 1000,
900 tons of it being notwithstanding
to a statement made to the German
reichstag by the imperial secretary of
the interior
The political trend in Hungary is
declared in unofficial dispatches to be
toward democratiZat ton. The eXpan-
sion of democratic electoral reforms
and the facilitation of the acquisition
of land by all classes of the populace
are in contemplation by the govern
| ment.
Bitter Fighting Reported
LONDON, April 29.-Bitter fighting
continued throughout last night and
today on the front of the British
armies. Reuters correspondent at the
! British headquarters telegraphs that
| the Germans apparently have a good
| idea of the principal points against
which the British effort is directed
and which must be carried before il
will be possible for the British to &c
/ ahead again. The Germans are throw
| ing in fresh troops to hold these posi-
! lions as rapidly as it is possible tC
| hurry them up.
Just as in the last pitched battle the
hottest fighting centered around Mon
chy, now RoeuX is the scene of the
seyeresr fighting" the correspondent
| continues. THE Germans appreciate
the tactical value of RoeuX as COM
PIGMENT to Monchy and are sacrificing
troops in droves in the effort to keeI
the British out.
"Al night long the battle crashed
and Numbered around Roeux and the
high sur this Sabbath morning mus
be looking down upon a.veritable Ger
mai holocaust between the chemica
wclks and Mount Pleasant wood"
The British troops captured a Ger
man trench system south of Oppy OF
a froEt of about mile after heavy
fighting this morning. says the officia
report from British headquarters il
France
; The Germans offered strong resis
lance and delivered several counter.
attacks but these failed.
i The number of prisoners taken b,
the British since Saturday morning il
976 including sixteen officers.
An Athens dispatch to the Daily Mai
says the correspondent has trustworth,
information that King Constantine il
considering abdicating in favor of tn
crown prince The dispatch adds tina
under the influence of German agents
however, the decision may be changed
Attack German Positions
PARIS, April 29.-French troop
last night attacked German position
near Courcy, northwest of Rheim:
the war office announces. The
gained considerable ground and too
$50 prisoners. German attacks i
the Champagne failed.
The recent French offensive will b
the subject OF an Interpolation of tn
government by Deputy Dalbiez, it ha
been learned. The cabinet alread
has deliberated upon this subject
Premier had an interview with Gen
eral Nivelle, the French commander
last night