The Elbert County tribune., 1917-03-23
UTTER RUIN LEFT
IN GERMAN WAKE
SWIFT CAVALRY ATTACKS PRE-
VENT DESTRUCTION OF
VILLAGES.
GERMAN REVOLUTION?
REPORT IN LONDON DECLARES
HAMBURG is SCENE OF UP
RISING AGAINST KAISER.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
British Headquarters in France,
March 21.-The pursuit Of the Ger
mans by the British troops continues
and at places sharp fighting ensued.
This was particularly true near Croi-
stiles, northeast of St. Leger, which
Is still strongly held by machine gun
companies. The armies have been In
such close touch at other places that
field fighting tactics have been en-
ployed, the men firing from skirmish
lines.
Wherever the British troops pene-.
trate territory formerly held by the
Germans they encounter the same con-
ditions of destruction and devastation
as in Bapaume and Peronne. Only a
few villages have escaped, the Ger
mans in these instances having been
compelled to leave before their plans
to lay waste could be carried out. The
use of cavalry by the British and
French seems to have taken the Ger
mans by surprise. upsetting some of
their calculations. In one village sup
per was abandoned. together with
much ammunition. and in other places
newly opened boxes of high explo-
sives were found. with which the Ger
mans had planned to destroy the viii
lagos before leaving
London. March 21.-According to a
Danish newspaper, a revolution has
broken out in Hamburg, Germany. In
financial circles Tuesday a similar re-
port was in. circulation. There is no
confirmation of either report.
The same rumor of revolution in
Germany has been persistently in cir
culation in tho United States for two
days. Tuesday it went SO far as to
carry the suggestion that something
had happened to the Kaiser.
None of the rumors could be traced
to a definite source, but all were ap-
parently founded on recent reports, In
dicating unrest in Germany and the
governments inability to win the
war"
London, March PA dispatch to
the Times from The Hague asserts
that new German peace move is on
foot. The dispatch says that promi-
nent Germans have recently visited
Holland and Switzerland under in
structions to try and ascertain what
the present attitude of Great Britain
Is toward possible cessation of hos
tilities.
Paris, March 20-French troops
have occupied about twenty additional
villages and small towns in their ad-
vance on the retreating Germans
They have gone beyond Ham on the
Somme river and Chauny on the Disc,
which brings them appreciably nearer
to the st. Quentin-Laon line.
London. March 20.-A boat contain
ing the first. second and third mates
and five seamen of the Dutch steamer
Selien tSeleneO, chartered by the
Belgian Relief Commission, has been
shelled by a submarine and all the oc-
cupants killed. according to a Reuter-
dispatch from Stavanger.
British forces in their latest push
on the western front have retaken ap-
proximately $50 square miles of.
French territory occupied by the
Germans since the beginning of the
war. The following are the more I'M
portant of about eighty towns and vii
lagos reoccupied by the British:
Bapaume, Chaulnes, Peronne. Gre,
Where, Fresnes, Horgny, Villers Car
bonelle, Barleaux. Eterpigny, LIE
Dransloy, La Maisonnette, Biefvillers,
Bihucourt, Achiet-Le- Grand, Achiet-
Le-Petit, Ablamseyille. Bucquoy. Es-
serts.
The French. in cooperation with
their British allies in this new thrust,
have retaken and are in possession
of about 525 square miles of territory
formerly held by the Teutons. The
following are the more important
towns reported as occupied by the
French: Noyon, Crouy, Carlepont,
Morsam. Nouvroningre Roye and Las
signy.
London--Beach Thomas, in a dis
patch, to the London Daily Mail. de-
scribing the German retreat in France
says at least 300 villages have been
burned to cinders.
Million. War Defense Fund Voted.