Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-05-18
British Capture Positions Held
by Teutons With Utmost
Tenacity; Fighting Is Cease
less.
MINING REGION OF i..
CAMBRIA THREATENED
French and Italians Also ScoreI
Gains. in France, Austria|
and in the Macedonian
Theatef.

fsy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
After days of most intensive fight
ing, in which the position several
times changed hands and men fell
in hundreds In attacks and counter
attacks, the British forces have al
last driven the Germans out of the
village of Bullecourt and once more
are threatening the southern end OF
the -Queant line, which
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg con-
strueted to defend Cambria from the
eastward advance of Field Marshal
Haig's army. -
Thousands of fresh German troops
recently have been thrown into the
fray around Bullecourt, but their ef-
forts, according to official communi-
cations have gone for naught in en-
deavorng to drive out the British
from the entire village. Although
several times the line has been bent
by the preponderance of weight OF
the German formations, at no time
have the British been forced to
evacuate, holding here and there
fringes of the outskirts and keeping
back the Teutons until their ele-
ments were reformed with suffi-
cient strength to make effective
counter-attacks and regain their lost
territory.
Battles Most Bloody.
Likewise, to the east of Arras
around the village of Rouex the bat
tie has been waged with vicious
ness scarcely ever before seen, and
here also the British have been suc'
oessful against the Germans. In
Wednesday nights fighting the Ger
mans were forced to give ground be-
fore counter-attaeks inside the viii
1age of Rouex and loose their hold on
the positions they previously had
taken.
Although the Germans have re.
sumed with extreme violence their
attacks against the French north
east of Scissors in the sectors of the
Moulin de Laffaux and Braye er
Laonnois of them against each
postion--they were again repulsed
by the French artillery and infan'
try, suffering enormous casualties
To the east, the French troops near
Craonne delivered a successful at
tack against German trench ele'
ments.
Berlin reports that for the frs
sixteen days OF May the German.
made prisoner OF 5000 British and
French soldiers on the French from
q, 400 of them British and 2,7O(
French.
Italians Are Gaining.
From Tolmino to the sea, thu
Italians are keeping up their strons
p offensive against the Austrians Oh
warding off violent counter-attacks
against positions they have captured
in their new push. All counter-at'
tacks thus far have failed.
An official dispatch reports the
taking by the Italians of the fash
ionable water resort of Dunno, at the
head OF the Gulf of Trieste, and only
twelve miles from the city of Trieste
Austria's most important port on thu
Adriatic sea. In the six days of fight
ing since the Italian offensive began
4,021 Austrians have been made pris
oner by the Italians.
In Macedonia also the forces OF the
Teutonic allies have been meeting
with reverses. In the Cerna rivel
region, notwithstanding the fact tina
they threw into the action fresh rein
forcements from Bulgaria, the Ger
mans lost to the French troops posi-
tions on a front Of nearly hall
mile, while to the east, in the Struma
river region, the British have taker
the village of Kjupri and elements
of enemy trenches.