The Elbert County tribune., 1917-05-04
DUTCH VILLAGE
is B0MBARDED
THREE KILLED AND HUNDRED
HOMES DAMAGED BY Ex-
PLoSVES OF AIRMEN.
FRANCE TO GET TROOPS
DR.. Won HoLLWEG TO MAKE AN
OTHER PEACE MovE-FRANcE
AND ITALY GET 100000, 900.

London, May 3.-Bombs were
dropped by an airplane Sunday night
on Zierikzee, in tn Dutch province OF
iceland, says a Reuter- dispatch from
The Hague under Mondays date.
Three persons were killed and much
material damage was done, the mes.
sage states.
The Hague-The Telegram of Am
sterdam states that the bombs which
were dropped on Zierikzee did such
extensive damage that the village is
in ruins, more than 100 houses being
smashed or damaged. A terrible panic
prevailed in the town, says the news
paper, intensified by the play of the
searchlights operated by the airmen
The Hague, Netherlands, May g.
DR.. Won Bethmann-Hollweg, the Ger
man imperial chancellor, will make
another peace offer in the Reichstae
today, according to an announcement
made by the Berliner Tageblatt.
London.-The Peninsular and Orien
tai line steamship Ballarat of 11,12O
gross tons, which was used as a troop
ship, was sunk by a German subma
rine. All the troops were saved.
Walkout of the munitions makers in
the Krupp factory at Essen and other
observances of the general strike
were features of the German celebra
ton of May day. Berlin claims that
;.,r
a rigid censorship
Activities on the western front are
less violent, although the French re-
port heavy artillery duels and the re.
pulse of a German attack in their sec
tor of the battle. The British claim
the capture of more prisoners.
Heavy gunfiring is reported on the
Russian front. From Rome comes
word of renewed activities on the
Austrian front
A Bulgar attack on the British in
the eastern zone was repulsed, Lon
don says.
San Antonio, Tex-Army headquar-
ters has received information said to
be unofficial, but authentic, that Mai
Gen. j. j. Pershing, commanding the
southern department, has been select
ed to command the American army to
be sent to France.
Amsterdam.-The Weser Zeitung of
Bremen reports that Berlin is filled
with rumors of a crisis in high gov
ernment quarters. The newspaper
says that demands are being made
that a strong man be placed at the
helm of state.
Washington.-The amount of the
first loans to France and Italy, Secre
tary McAdoo announced will be $780,
100000 each
Paris, May I'm powerful attack
in the Champagne region Monday the
French troops captured several forti
fled lines of trenches in the neighbor.
hood of Mont Carnillet to depth of
500 to 1000 meters, according to the
war office report.
Another thrust by the French
northeast of Mont Haut resulted in
gain of two-thirds of a mile. French
now virtually astride of the Moron
villers-Naurov road
Berlin.-The war office communica-
ton Monday dealing with the fighting
on the western front in France says:
"a careful estimate puts the losses
of the English Saturday at over 5000
men, who fell in and before our posi-
tions, in addition to which over 900
prisoners and forty machine guns
were brought in by us. Ten tanks
We're destroyed"
Paris, April 30-British troops in
desperate attempt to turn the north
ern wing of the Drocourt-Queant line
have advanced on front of nearly ten
miles and captured the village of Ar
leuxenGohelle, nine miles west of
Douai. Successive German counter-at-
tacks, made at heavy sacrifices, failed
to check the British.
Canadians captured Arleux, two
miles from the Drocourt- -Queant line
and east OF the Vimy ridge.
Nearly Full Quota of Navy Reached.
Washington.-The enlisted strength