The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-31
Activity of Allies in Air Blind
Eyes of Big Guns.
When e. s. PLANES Arrive
Kaiser Will Stay on Ground.
ITALIANS TAKE FOUR VILLAGE
Advance Their Position
Against AuStrianS Today.
French Beat Down Waves OF
Teuton Infantry Attacks.

Rome. May 21-Italian troops IN
Albania have occupied the villages of
C"revoda, Veliscst, Ozoja and Gaia, tie
war office anro unced today.
Americas Part.
With the British Armies in the
Field, May 31.-Nothing that Amer
lea plans to do in fighting Germany
has aroused more interest here at the
front than news received today OF
plans for a vast fleet of aeroplanes
manned by thousands of American
aviators.
ly damaged. The allied supremacy
in the air has several times handi-
capped the enemy. a report recently
found on a captured German officer
showed that thru lack of proper aerial
reconnaissance the Prussian artillery
has frequently turned its fire on the
German instead of the British lines.
Kill Own Men.
Four such instances were detailed
in the report of this one officer. Each
time the Germans turned a terrific
barrage fire into their own instead of
not been corrected by aerial observa
ton. In these four instances reported.
the killing and manning Of Germans
by their own guns forced evacuation
OF the I6HCEeS lIuS upOu
If America follows out her plan
for a vast aerial fleet, she has the
chance almost completely to blind"
the German armies
Brought Down With Revolver.
But indications multiply that the
enemy is hard pressed to keep up even
the numerical strength of his aerial
seem to be more flimSy of conStruc-
ton. One R. F. c. man today report
ed bringing down Boone with five
shots from his Colt automatic revol-
yer. 1t was not lucky hit of the
pilot-but smashing of some impor-
tant part that sent the German ma
chine whirllng from high aloft crum-
pied and twisted out of form
Break Up German Attacks.
Paris, May 31.-The Germans at
tackled in the Champagne with ex-
treme violence at several points last
night. The attacking forces were
checked at some places by the French
bayonet, the Germans retiring each
time after heavy losses. the war office
announced today
The fighting was particularly des-
perate in the region of the Teton. the
CasQue and MontHaVt tho attack
being launched in four successive
waves after a heavy bombardment
from large calibre guns and suffocat-
ing gas shells.
The French took prisoners during
the fighting, including two officers.
New Spirit on Russian Front
Petrograd. May 31-Minister of
War kerensky is successfully accom-
plishing his task of squirting Russia's
soldiers to fight. A new spirit of de
termination was apparent today in
front dispatches from those sections
where the Lloyd George of Russia
ha do 7f,-I,r
One incident, on the southwest
front. reported is typical There
Kerensky and Albert Thomas, min
lister of munitions for France, both
addressed conference of officers and
soldiers kerensky concluded with an
impassioned plea that the fighting
men give their lives to Russia so
that the fruits of the revolution might
! be secured"
! The audience was galvanized into
action Every man rose 10 his feet
shouting: We swear it,' A tumuItu-
Gus demonstration followed. in which
Kerensky and Thomas were borne
from the meeting on the shoulders OF
soldiers
Few German Prisoners.
/ London May 31-''A hostile raid
+ ing party was driven off early this
morning south of Armcntieres," saws
| today's official report on Franco-Bel
! gian front operations. We secured 4
| few prisoners. There was considera-
bic artillery activity on both sides dur
I ing the night in the nelghborhooG of
Bullecourt and on the right bank of
! the Scarpe."
AuStrianS in Flight.
: Washington, May 31.-Austria will
/ be in a serious plight when the Rus
sian armies move against her as vir-
! tually~aI of the Austrian soldiers are
now fighting on the Italian front, &C
cording to a member of the Italian
mission today Leibach is the goal
I of Italy's army, he said. When
Leibach is captured after operations
which will probably take many
months, the road to Vienna can ca silly
be opened. Defending the Vienna road
will be an impossible task for the Aus
TRANS, it was explained
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