Arizona republican., 1917-05-18
SHORT LINE TO PRESCOTT INCORPORATED TO TAP IN
 ON RICH MINING DISTRICT
GERMANS UNABLE TO
 DISLODGE BRITISH
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After days of most intensive fight ing, in which the position several times changed hands and men fell in hun dreds in attacks and counter attacks, the British forces have at last driven the Germans out of the village of Bullecourt and once more are threaten ing the southern end of the Drocourt- Queant line, which Field Marshal von Hindenburg constructed to defend Cambrai from the eastward advance of Field Marshal Haig's army. Thousands of fresh German troops recently have been thrown into the fray around Bullecourt, but their eff forts, according to official communica- tions, have gone for naught in endeav- bring to drive out the British from the entire village. Although several times the line has been bent by the pre- pOnderance of weight of the German formations, at no time have the British been forced to eVacuate, holding here and there fringes of the outskirts and keeping back the Teutons until their elements were reformed with suffi- cient strength to make effective cOun- ter attacks and regain their lost ter ritory.
 i Likewise, to the east of Arras around the village of RoeuX the battle has been Waged with a viciousness scarcely ever | before seen, and here also the British have been successful against the Ger mans In Wednesday nights fighting the Germans were forced to give ground before counter attacks inside [ the village of Roeux and loose their hold on the positions they previously l had taken.
 Although the Germans have renewed ! with extreme violence their attaccks against the French northeast of Sols- sons in the sectors of the Moulin de Laffaux and Braye en Laonnois-three ! of them against each pOsition-thev were again repulsed by the French artillery and infantry suffering enor- nous casualties. To the east the | French troops near Craonne delivered a successful attack against German trench clements.
 Berlin reports that for the first IS 1 days of May the Germans made pri- soners of 5000 British and French sol diers on the French front-3. .00O of them British and 1000 French
 From Tolmino to the sea, the Italians are keeping up their strong offensive against the Austrians or warding off i violent counter attacks against posi- tions they have captured in their new push. All counter attacks thus far have failed.
 An unofficial dispatch reports the taking by the Italians of the fashion able watering resort of Duino at the head of the Gulf of Triest and only twelve miles from the city of Priest +AustrIa most important port on tic AdTlatlc sea In the six days of fight ing since the Italian offensive began 4021 Aastrians have been made pris- Oner by the Italians In Macedonia also the forces of the Teutonic allies have been meeting w. leverses. In the Cerna river region notwithstanding the fact that they threw into the action fresh reinforce ments from Bulgaria, the Germans lost to the French troops positions on a front of nearly half mile. while t, the east in the Struma river region the British have taken the village ol hJuprl and elements of enemy trench es.
 British Statement
 LONDON, May 1.-The official an nouncement issued tonight by the Brit- ish war office says:
 Today our troops completed the
 capture of Bullecourt, taking some sixty prisoners.
 The whole of the village for tn,
 possession of which constant fightine
 has taken place since May 3, now is
 in our hands,
 The extenCive gains made by tn,
 British in the Struma sector of tn,
 Macedonian front have been held in tn,
 face of counter attacks, the war office , announced today.
 4 The official statement issued by tn (Continued on Page Two)