The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-04-17
LATEST WAR NEWS

The French troops in the Depart
ments Of the Asne and the Marine
have delivered violent infantry at
tack against the Germans over a
front Of twenty-five miles, and made
important gains of terrain, and cap
tured more than 10000 prisoners and
large quantities Of war material. The
battle took place between Scissors
and Rheims. and over a distance Of
eighteen and onc-half miles. From
scissors TO Craonne the entire Ger
man first-line positions fell into the
hands of Gen. Niville's forces, while
east of CraOnne a second-line Ger
man position south of Juvincourt and
another position on the outskirts of
/ Bermericourt running along the
/ Aisne Canal to Louvre and Courcy
also were captured. Violent counter
attacks delivered by the Germans on
several sectors were repulsed with
/ heavy casualties to the attackers.
Up TO the time that the transforms
| began Monday afternoon the British
| had captured from the Germans the
village of Villeret, southeast of Har-.
gicourt and eight miles from st.
| Quentin, and also had made addition
al progress northwest of Lens. Dur
J ing the week that the British offens-
| i've has been going on Field Marshal
| Sir Douglas Haig's forces have made
prisoners of $4,000 Germans and
captured 1914 guns and large quaint
| ties of war stores.
The Germans, with very large
forces, on Sunday attacked the Brit
ish along the Bapaume- Cambria road
over a front of six miles, and fight
! ing desperately, succeeded in gain
| ing a foothold in the village of Lag
nicourt, which lies southwest of
| Queant, a position of great strate-
gic Importance in the German line.
Everywhere else along the British
front the Germans were repulsed, ac-
cording to the official report from
! Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and
their success at Lagnicourt was not
! for long, as a powerful British coun-
ter-attack drove them out. Three
| hundred Germans were made prison.
ers and 1900 Germans dead were
! counted in front of the British posi-
tons While unofficial reports say
British patrols entered the town of
Lens, the night British official COM
munication merely says the British
now are approaching the outskirts of
| the town, having captured German
defenses from Riaumont Wood to
the eastern corner of Cite st. Pierre,
and also east of LEVIN.
The bill authorizing the issue of
1000, 100000 of bonds and certifi-
Gates to finance the United States
part in the war and to afford a So
600, 10000 loan to the Entente AL
lies was adopted unanimously bv the
House of Representatives at Wash
ington Saturday. The measure had
been described as the greatest au-
thoriZation for bonds ever contained
in a bill submitted to any legislative
body in the world.
In a personal appeal addressed to
his fellow countrymen, President
Wilson calls upon every American
citiZen-man, woman and child-to
Join together to make the nation a
unit for the preservation of its ideals
and for triumph of democracy in the
world war. Putting the navy on a war
footing and raising a great army are
the simplest parts of the great tasF
ahead the President declares, and he
urges all the people with particular
emphasis upon his words to the far
mers, to concentrate their energies,
practice economy, prove unselflish-
ness and demonstrate efficiency.
Mobs in Buenos Aires. demanding
war with Germany, attacked the Ger
man legation and consulate as well as
two German newspapers. Marine
forces of Brazil are taking possession
of the German merchant vessels in
termed in Brazilian ports.
The War Department reversed
previous ruling and announced that
under existing law, States have the
right to organize new unites of the
National Guard. This opens the door
to expansion of the existing force of
about $4,000 men to 100000 at
neace strength or more than 600,-
90 on war footing.
One hundred thousand men by
May / is the recruiting aim set for
the navy by Secretary Daniels. He
hopes to signalize the anniversary of
Dewey's victory at Manila with the
that the enlisted per
sonnet of the navy has reached that
figure.
A sensation has been created in
Buenos Aires over the official an
nouncement that the Argentine sail
ing vessel Monte Protegido has been
sunk in European waters by Ger
man submarine. The ship was fred
upon by the guns of the submarine
ana one member OF tne crew was
The Argentine government
has ordered an inquiry into the sink
ing.
Two British hospital ships, the
Salta and the Gloucester Castle, have
been sunk. The Salta struck a mine
with the loss of fifty-two lives and
the Gloucester Castle was torpedoed
without warning bv a submarine. All
the wounded on the Gloucester Cas-
tie were saved.