The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-05-03
MORE ANE RICANS
LANDED SAFELY
SECOND BOAT LOAD OF SEVEN
SURVIVORS REPORTED SAVED
THEY LANDED ON AN ISLAND
Another Night of Inaetion So Far As
Large Moves Are Concerned
Reported From the British
Western Front.
THEY LANDED ON AN ISLAND

London, May "A second boat
load of seven survivors from the
American steamer Vacuum, includ-
ing Captain Harris, third mate Hus
ted, the boatswain and four American
! gunners were saved.
| They landed Sunday on an island
where there were no telegraphs and
their safety was not reported until
today in an American consular re
port.
Captain Harris said that Lieuten
ant Thomas, commanding the naval
gunners aboard the Vacuum, was
probably lost.
A message of the first surviving
party of eighteen arrived at Liver.
pool today with a graphic story OF
the sinking at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning.
The submarine fired her torpedo
when submerged" he said. Later
she reappeared and fired her guns
at US, completing the sinking.
"The attack came so quickly and
the Vacuum began sinking astern so
rapidly that the American gunners
did not have time to fire their weap
ons."
No Moves on Western Front.
Another night of inaction so far as
large moves are concerned was re-
ported from the British western front
today.
Between st. Quentin and Lens
there was mutual artillery firing and
a German raiding party was repulsed
The great halt and the major op
erations on the British front had
lasted for over three days. Mean.
while the armies on both sides OF
the Scarpe continued locked, neither
side being able to gain against the
1other forces operations.
Frances Greatest Battle.
BY Henry Woods, United Press
Correspondent with the French Army
in Champaign, May 2.-France is
waging her greatest battle of the
whole war to blast loose the German
hold on the crest of Monovillers and
| Gibralter.
The great artillery battle began
Sunday. 1t extended eight rules
over a wide front.
One barrage in front of the German
trenches stopped all possible attacks
and cleared away ENHANCEMENT fol
French advance. Another barrage
in the rear of the German line cut
the trenches off from aid, supplies
| and munitions.
The French made this eight miles
of German trenches a shelled ruined
place.
After Monday afternoon the
French infantry leaped from the
trenches and went leaping up the
slopes, and at every point they were
victorious.
Hindenburg threw into the struggle
another of his strategical reserve
divisions the thirty-third of his total
of forty-three reserve divisions on
the western front, which he has al
ready sacrificed to the Franco-Eng
| lish offensive.
Fierce bayonet and hand to hand
fighting ensued. The French were
occasionally driven back. But like
dogs they again would reattack.
Nightfall on Monday found then
grasping on Moronvilleres crest, with
Germany's grip partly broken.
100000 Germans Killed.
Amsterdam, May 2.-To date Ger
many has lost 100000 killed, &C
cording to a Berlin statistician re
port today.
With this and the decrease in tht
German birth rates this authorit.
stated the total German population
has been reduced by 100000.
The total number of females owe
males in Germany it is estimated hai
been increased from 100000 to NOR,
than 100000.
400 French Taken.
/ Berlin, May I'm the Champaign
/, fighting on Monday, the French coul,
not obtain the detectives at an,
point, said todays statement, claim
ing capture of four hundred Frencl
prisoners.
Failure of allied attacks aroun,
Lens and along the Aisne were re
ported.