New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-05-11
FRENCH MASTERS
OF 18'M|LE RIDGE
DESPERATE ATTACKS TO REGAIN
LOST GROUND ON SCISSORS
FRONT FAIL.
TAKE 6,100 PRISONERS
RUSSIA WARNED THAT TEUToN
TROOPS ARE PREPARING TO
CAPTURE PETRooRAp.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London. May 9.-The British and
Germans thruout Monday were still
engaged in violent fighting for pos
session of Bullecourt, midway be-
tween Arras and Cambria, and also
in this immediate region at Roeux
and between Fontaine and Reincourt.
The British forces are now on the
northern, western and eastern out
skirts of Bullecourt, leaving only the
southern part of it available for a re-
treat of the Germans still inside. I'm
official reports have asserted that the
British entered we'll into the town.
North of this sector the Germans
report that heavy British attacks at
Roeux and between Fontaine and
Reincourt were repulsed with san
culinary losses, while still farther
north, near Lens, the British official
communication records the repulse Of
a third German counter attack on the
British positions south of the Souchez
river.
Berlin claims that in Sunday
nights fighting the Germans OBJ
tanned local successes at numerous
points, notably on the Winterburg.
Notwithstanding to a Central
News dispatch from Copenhagen, the
Norwegian foreign office has an
nounced the sinking by German sub
marines of the steamships Capto and
Natuna. The crews were rescued.
Paris, May 8.-Every gain scored by
the French in Saturdays brilliant ad-
vance northeast of scissors, was main
tanned against numerous heavy coun-
ter-attacks Sunday night, the war Of
flee announced. Consolidation of the
ground has made them masters of
most of the ridge crowned by the Che
min-des- Danes, along a front of more
than eighteen miles. The prisoners
taken have reached a total of $500 and
seven cannon have been captured.
PetrOgrad.-Petrograd is warned OF
an impending German attack upon 1t
by way of Libau, in an army order
which directs the disposition of forces
to resist such an attack.
Paris.-A brilliant success for the
French army is recorded in the Off
cial communication. An important
French advance has been made
against powerful opposition along the
road from Scissors to Laon, over an
extent Of nearly four miles. French
troops have captured all the plateau
In the ne~ighborhood Of Cerny and
Craonne and the hills dominating the
valley of the Ailette river. The num-
Der Of prisoners captured was $500.
After repulsing German counter at
tacks from Fresnoy southwark to the
southern corner Of the Hindenburg
line at Laon and farther eastward
toward the Champagne district, the
British and French troops in France
are holding the majority Of the posi-
tons gained and are making some
small progress against desperate re-
sistance.
Some of the German attacks were
broken up by artillery and others
were driven off after h%and-to-hand in
fantry fighting. One of the most vio-
lent German attempts was an assault
on Craonne and the positions near 1t,
taken by the French on the previous
day, but the assault broke down with
great losses. Progress was made by
the French east of Mont Carnillet and
by the British north of Havrincourt
wood.
Bullecourt continues q center Of
most intense battle with alternate ad-
vance and retirement on both sides.
South of that point the British have
bombed their way into German
trenches of the Hindenburg switch
toward Queant. Artillery fighting IL
intensive along the Aisne front.
The outcome Of the contradictory
situation in Russia. where mobs have
denounced members of the provisional
government, remains puzzling. Chief
developments in Petrograd Saturday
were the adoption by the council Of
workmen's and soldiers delegates of q
vote Of confidence in the government
and the forbidding of all meetings or
armed demonstrations for two days.
The troops in Petrograd were ordered
to remain in their barracks. Premier
Lvoff and Foreign Secretary Milukoff
have declared that the government
will resign rather than recall the note
sent May Day to the entente govern
ments, assuring them Russia would
prosecute the war vigorously.