The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-06-30
Hindcnburg Caught Mapping.


London. June 2s-Haig caught
Hindenburg mapping again today He
hit the Teutons when they "weren't
looking or rather when they were
looking very intently in one direction
sonIy--Lens
It was there that the British. the
Canadians TO the fore. had been max
ing things extremely uncomfortable
the last few DAYS; II was there that
the next blow in force was expected
But the Canadians seem in no especial
hurry. Certain that the big coal
city-more correctly its ruins--can I
he rried loose from their ever-fasten-
ing grip, they are going slow but sure.
On wide front they ploughed stead
lily northward on the lower bank OF
the souchez today. They are firmly
esta hHshed IN Asion.
But while the Germans were con-
centrating their attention on this
menace. Hays troops six miles to the
southeast shot out suddenly like so
many bolts OF lightning and struck
the German trent southwest Of eppy
a vital point In the switch that links
the Wotan with the Siegfr,ed line.
The Germans. taken completely by
surprise, staggered back on front
~ a7e44 yards 10 the south a2d wesa.
of ~Oppy, Cnoffic!al estimates gave
the mum Der Of prisoners up 10 early
this evening at exceeding zoo.
Berlin officially admitted that the
British occupied the German fore
most lines between Oppy and the
Gravel windmill Il disputed the new
advance toward Lens
Meanwhile the kaiser's throne heir
PLAYED much the same game IN the
south as Haig did in the north. He
launched a cyclone drumflre on the
Aisne and followed 1t with vicious
storn1ing assaults, They were long
expected and met with corresponding
calmness by the French. But at the
same time he Unexpectedly opened up
. furious cannonade-on an almost for
gotten front west of the Meuse before
Nei6un.
True - its policy of gamely ad-
u,ittiuG reTerses. the Paris war office
conceded Ia its day statement that the
picked German storming columns sue
ceeded by 4 powerful attack" on a
front Of one and one-quarter miles
in gaining a footing in some parts
az the French first line. On the whole.
however. the attack was broken up
End second one WIS completely re-
rhlsed
Fight to End Says Lioyd-George.
London. June 2a.--Juiy l was set
by leading German statesmen six
months ago as the date which Eng
land would begin to feel the pangs of
hunger, the beginning of the end"
BY that time, It was said. England
would feel inclined toward peace.
With this vaunted date only forty
eight hours off. David Lloyd George.
prime minister of Great Britain. in a
speech that hrist,ed with fight and
defiance announced that-a hasty
peace would mean disaster to man
kind: that peace must come not a
single minute before the entente pow
ers aims are attained
simultaneously there we're many
signs today presaging an ominous
tightening of the ring around the
central powers.
Greece broke of diplomatic rela-
tions with them and declared herself
virtually in state of war.
Norway sent a threatening protest
to Germany demanding an explana-
ton for the activities of the diplo-
n,atic bomb squad at Christiania
General Brusiloff solemnly assured
Elihu Root at Russian headqua rters
that the armies of New Russia are
ready to attack the Teutons.
from WITHIN the central empires
there came new signs OF peace activ-
ity..% In the Austrian parliament So
cialist deputies described the young
Emperor Charles as peace kaiser"
telling how he had assured them he
would work restlessly for an early
peace. Dispatches from Germany in
dicated that the secret behind the
growing restrictions on the press
Is plan for a new peace offer Of
which Wilhelmstrasse wishes that not
an mixing become known until it Is
actually made.