Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-30
British Capture German Bar
riers in Stupendous Fight
for Supremacy.
GAINS DUE TO CANADIANS
Colonial Troops Hold FRS
Positions Despite Heavy
Fire of Teutons.
Associated Press Summary

The three stretch of territory
from ArleuX- -Gohellc to Gavrelle
still is the scene of great battles for
supremacy between the British and
the Germans The British continue to
hold the advantage
Another trench system-a barrier
to the forward march Of Field Mar
shdl Ilaig's forces toward Douai--has
been taken over a front of mile in
most sanguinary fighting. The new
position lies south of Oppy and runs
almost to the outsk irts of GaVrelle.
The Britishers went into the fray
with their usual intrepi1ity. The Ger
mans resisted strongly. but King
Georges men would not he denied and
soon drove out the defenders of the
position and entered. Counterattacks
launched by the Germans were un-
availing and at the close of the day
the British were in full possession Of
their new gain and in an appreciably
better position than prey iously for
continuation of the offensive eastward
toward Doaui.
Hold ArlcuX-cn-G GohcIlc.
When dawn broke over the battle
field Sunday it found the Canadians
holding tenaciously to Arleux-en-
Gohelle, captured Saturday in
thrilling battle. Their night had not
been a restful one, for the Germans
threw a heavy counternttack against
them that required hard work to put
down with rifle and machine gun fire
a task which, however, the Cana
dians successfully accomplished, in
flicting heavy casualties upon the Ger
mans.
Berlin has admitted loss to the
Canadians of ArleuX- en- Gohlle and
to other parts of Field Marshal Haigs
army of Oppy and positions near
Gavrelle and RoueX, which are char
acterized as advanced positions"
Thousand Germans Prisoners.
The German war office adds, how
ever, that except for Arleux all posi-
tions were regained and the British
suffered extraordinarily heavy losses.
Since the recommencement of tho
offensive Saturday the number of pris-
oners taken by the British has mate
rally increased, nearly one thousand
Germans having been sent to the pris-
oner cages back of the fighting line up
to Sunday evening.
Altho unofficial advices are to the
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tanic struggle, the official reports
make no mention of the fact.
From the bend in the line northeast
of scissors well into the Champagne.
the air resounds with the roar of the
big guns of the French and Germans.
There still is little infantry activity
thruout these regions.
China to Enter War.
Expectation in Peking is that China
within two weeks will declare war
on Germany Already a special com
mission for international affairs has
advised the government that China
should take her place beside the
United States and the entente allies as
an antagonist of Germany, and parlia-
ment soon is to decide finally the
question of China's participation
The political trend in Hungary Is de-
clared in unofficial dispatches to be
toward democratiZation.
Expansion of democratic electoral
reforms and the facilitation of the ac-
QUESTION of land by all classes of the
populace are in contemplation by the
government.