The Red Cloud chief., 1917-05-03

ly completed and France and Italy and
Russia will get their share soon. Most
of the money, II is understood, will be
expended in the United States.
The commissioners agreed that,
mex to supplying money, America
could give the best help by continuing
to furnish food and by finding the YES
sells for It's transport to Europe, and
they were pleased with the plans for
building n great fleet Of wooden ships.
General Joffre, however, expressed the
hope that in the e future n large
contingent Of American troops would
be on the fighting line under the Stars
and Stripes, holding that the moral
effect Of that would be tremendous.
All of the commissioners cOncurred
in the statement that they were here
eminent, but to advise and assist 1t
to the best Of their ability and with
their wealth of experience.
President Wilson, in q conference
with Mr.. Balfour, voluntarily gave as
surances hat the United States will
fight until 1t achieves victory, and
;Aereupon the head of the British mis-
sion declared that the entente allies
would seek no treaty Of alliance, no
signature of the entente pledge not to
make a separate peace with Germany.
Germans Resist Desperately.
"This is the last and deciding push,
for we soon shall be able to hold out
no longer reads the diary Of n Ger
man officer who vas captured last
Monday, and that seems to be the
opinion of the German commander In
chief, judging by the desperate Opposi-
ton he is putting up against the drive
Of the allies In northern France. Re-
Stunning their part Of the offensive at
the beginning of the week, the British
have made considerable progress, es'
pecially along the roads from Arras
and Bapaume to Cambria. In the semi
open fighting their heavy hOwitzers
were of little use, but their field guns
and machine guns were handled with
wonderful skill and rapidlty and the
Germans suffered enormously. Vor
Hindenburg threw his reserves into
the battle with n prOdigality that as
tonished his adversaries, and the Teu
tons gave ground slowly and made re
peated and fierce counter-attacks
which, however, were Of little avail
and left the ground covered with theil
slain. The German line, thanks Il
the astounding numbers of men Vol
Hindenburg has been able to bring up
: Is still unbroken, but 1t Is badly bat
tered and is being pushed back fur
ther and further toward the frontier
. The superiority of the British In tn
air was demonstrated on Monday II
: the most spectacular manner. tn
!, men of the Royal Flying corps met tn
: air sQuadrons of the Germans at a,
= altitude of 1900 feet and put ther
to rout, destroying 40 Of their all
planes, with the loss of but two @
their own machines. The young Bri'
!, ish pilots then carried out n series @
:. daring bombing raids.
The French devoted much Of tn
week to destructive artillery fire !
: preparation for their next part In III
= 'see-saw" that is being carried on wit
y such skillful cooperation by Haig an
: Nivelle, and by Thursday their infal
- try was again In action.
On the Italian, Macedonian and Ro1
manian fronts little of moment h,
- taken place. In Mesopotamia II
y British are still advancing, but the e,
petition from Egypt that Is moving Z
- through Palestine has found the r
- enforced Turkish forces holding
~ strongly intrenched position extendir
" from GAIA toward B%eersheba. Port
o. gal, having decided to take a mo
y active part in the conflict In Europ
u has sent a large contingent Of tro0l
- to northern France.
~ There has been some stirring acti
" lily recently In the neighborhood
the Straits of Dover. Two British d
stroyers encountered n fiOtilla OF s
he German destroyers and after a furio
Dis combat put the foe to rout. The CO
In mar boats were rammed and tori
Is doed and raked by gunfire and at lea
he two of them were sunk. The Britt
st vessels suffered severely but were al
y, to return to port.
at Wednesday morning a German {
90 stroyer flotilla bombarded Dunk
on but was driven off by the coast b'
ry teries and the allied patrol boats. o
,s- French torpedo boat was sunk.
o. Rassian Situation Dangerous.
Of The course Of events In Russia
al being watched with renewed ankle