The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-13
Summary Of Outstanding Developments h News
 From Various War Fronts
ny the Associated Press

The Germans, following their heavy artillery preparations of recent days, have attempted to drive a wedge in- to the British line west of Cambrai Although they were numerically su- perior forces, their effort brought them only a minor gain.
 The attack, launched between Bulle- court fnds, Queant, was similar to that adopted, by Crown Prince Rup- precht's troops when they pierced General Byng's front southwest of Cambrai nearly two weeks ago and caused a retirement of the British on the salient General Byng previous ly had driven toward Cambra. A like purpose doubtless was involved in the latest offensive and for it's execution huge waves of Bavarians were thrown upon the sector in an endeavor to overpower the defenders. The Brit ish, however held tenaciously to their ground except at one point, where the enemy penetrated front line po- sition.
 AS in their previous attempt to wreck the Cambrai salient the Germans lost heavily in the enterprise, the British moving them ooy.n with machine gun and rifle fire in the fighting, which lasted from dawn until l o'clock in the afternoon. The spot chosen for the attack was similar, from strategic standpoint, to that near Gonnelieu, where the offensive of a fortnight also began, and had it suc- ceeded, another retirement by the British on the Cambrai sector prob ably would have been necessary ;, Notwithstanding their failure the Germans are keeping up an intensive bombardment of British and French positions all along the western front and daily are receiving additional endorsements in men and guns from the eastern theatre.
 Snow is falling heavily in the noun tains along the northern Italian front and optimism prevails among the Italians that this will aid them def initely in holding the Austro-Ger- mans back from the Italian plain. Amid the first flurries of the storm on Tuesday the enemy resumed his at tack among the hills and was reward ed by the capture of several posi- tions. Later, however, the Italians in counter attack regained their lost terrain, after which the artil- lery duels were resumed but with less strength than preciously had been shown
 The Cossacks, under General Kale- dimes. and the Bolsheviki forces are reported to have met in at least two fights with the counter revolutionists the victors in both. The engage ments occurred at Mohliev and Tam anovka and the Bolsheviki losses are declared to have been heavy
 General Allenby, commander of the British forces in Palestine has en- tered Jerusalem and taken over con- trol of the Holy City. The populace greeted the British commander cordially. In a proclamation he told the inhabitants that all sacred build ings and holy places would be pro- tected and maintained. Meanwhile, the British army continues its suc- cessful operations in Palestine, hav- ing captured several additional posi- tions from the Turks
 Twenty-one British merchantmen were sunk by mines or submarines last week, as against 17 the previous week.
 A resolution declaring that a state of war exists between Austria Hungary and Cuba has been passed by the Cuban House of Representa- tives.