The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-06-26
Attempting To Learn Petain's
Plans For Offensive They Know
Is Coming Crown Prince Still
Drives His Men To Slaughter
MONKEY HILL CENTER
OF BLOODY MELEEs
British and Belgian Guns In Elan
ders Grow Buster and Their
Thunder May Presage Another
Drive In the General Advance
ASSOCIATED Press BY o. s Naval Com
munication service) AZ

Tx IN Gil ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, June "a
There are plenty Of indications
along the French front that the
Germans are getting nervous over
the situation, appreciating the fact
that the French are preparing to
make another smash at the Ger
man line and uncertain where the
blow is to fall.
Won Hindenburg is making series
of feclers along the line, from verdun
to Laon, the net results of which are
thousands of German casualties, with
the French preparations completely
masked and the French lines still I'M
( tact
Made Temporary Gain
One Of the chief efforts Of the Ger.
man general staff has been TO breach
the French lines between Naux and
Aiilon, and at this point large forces
of picked men have been employed.
For three days the Germans have at
tackled, driving their way through the
French lines in one place, but being
smashed generally along the whole
line of attack, while Friday night
found the Germans eeverywhere re-.
pulsed, their gains being taken from
them before the day closed.
The German effort reached itscIimax
between Vaux' and Ailion, where the
French were ,onsted from their front
lines by the shock tactics Of the Grown
Prince, who threw his regiments bodily
against the French defenses, enough
driving through the French Smelling TO
secure their first objective. The point
seized by the Germans was Monkey
Hill, q vital spot if they had been able
to retain il, as 1t forms a splendid OBJ
servation post. .a
French Came Back
The French appreciated the impor.
tahce of the position as much as the
TeutOns, and counter attacked four
times, the last effort being crowned
with success. In the first fighting at
this point, the Germans took three hun.
bred prisoners, but lost more than that
when the position was recaptured.
Yesterday along the Chemin des
Danes sector there was heavy firing
with the big guns throughout the day,
but no infantry fighting, The artillery
duels were particularly severe south,
east Of Filian and in the regions Of
Cruomie and Chevreux.,
Spiteful Against Rheims
For reasons hard to explain, the Ger
mans are maintaining their Smelling Of
Rheims, an empty city from which the
inhabitants have been Withdrawn for
weeks and in which there are no
French military forces beyond the
street guards, Yesterday the Germans
threw twelve hundred shells into the
city, doing large property damage but
infieting not a particle of military
damage.
There was an increase In the volume
Of Allied fire in the artillery lombard
metlt Of the Germans in Belgium yes.
terday, particularly at Dixmude, Pype
gale, Steenstraste and Het Sas, to
which the German guns made only per
funetory reply.
On the Serbian front, General Sar,
rnil reports, there have been patrol
skirmisbes between the British and
Bulgars, with some heavy artillery
duels in the Nardar River Valley and
in the cerna Bend.
Berlin Dispatches ,{t
The Berlin dispatches regarding the
recent fighting ia France report that
early ON Friday morning the forces un,
der tbe Grown Prince stormed and cap.
tnred French positions on the Chemin
des Danes sector, the attackers main
thinning their gains on trout of a kilo-
meter and a half aud to a depth Of FIVE
hundred meters, notwithstanding three
violent counter attacks on the part Of
the French, who lost heavily in their
retulses aud who were forced to yield
three hundred prisoners. French at
ircks made ut Mont Carnillet and
yauX Aillon were repulsed, says
Berlin,