New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-13
BRITISH SMASH
GERMAN LINE
DEADLIEST CONFLICT OF WAR 10
FOUGHT NEAR ARRAS AND
ST. QUENTIN.
TAKE MANY PRISONERS
ALLIED CANNON POUND FOE'e
TRENCH TO ATOMS.-CANA-
DAMS TAKE why RIDGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, April 1O.-British launch
most tremendous drive of war in vi
! cinity of st. Quentin, driving forward
on front twelve miles long, penetrat,
ing German positions to depth of three
miles and capturing thousands of pris.
oners. Famous Vimy ridge taken by
storm by Canadians.
Violent British attack reported also
near Cambria, where they captured
the village of Demicourt.
Bennett cables from Berlin that
German sentiment is beginning to
swerve around in favor of President
Wilson and hints that momentous
events of advantage to the United
States are brewing in Germany.
Herr Scheidemann, leader of the
German Socialists, departs on secret
mission, apparently to Russia, in the
interest of a separate peace.
Ten British airplanes missing and
seventeen German machines driven
down in days aerial fighting.
Only minor operations reported
from east front.
London.-In terrific air fighting two
days and nights, in northern France,
British aeroplanes carried out numer-
raids and dropped more than
eight tons of bombs. Twenty-eight
British machines are missing, says the
official statement from British head
quarters in France; fifteen German
aeroplanes were seen to crash to the
ground, and thirty n German ma
chimes were driven down, damaged.
Ten German balloons, the statement
adds, were brought down in flames.
Observation-Disclosures William has
ordered German Imperial Chancellor
o Bethmann-Hollweg to submit to
him certain proposals for the reform
of the Prussian electoral law, to be
discussed and put into effect after the
conclusion of peace. An official tele-
gram from Berlin announcing this or
der adds that it foreshadows also the
reform of the upper chamber of the
Prussian diet.
New York. The Belgian relief
steamship Anna Fostenes, carrying
$4,000 worth of grain to Rotterdam,
has been sunk by a German subma.
rine. The vessel carried no Ameri.
cans.
Washington.-Mail service between
the United States and Germany was
suspended by Postmaster General
Burleson during the continuance of
hostilities between the two powers.
Paris.-The Lafayette Flying Corps,
of American aviators, has
shot down thirty German airplanes, &C.
cording to a semi-official communica-
ton.
British efforts to reach the Cam
brai-St. Quentin road and to drive a
salient into the German lines between
these two important points, out.
thanking both, continue successfully.
In operations near Ronsscy, ten miles
north of st. Quentin, Field Marshal
Haig's men have captured Lempire.
French troops continue to ecover
ground captured by the Germans
northwest of Rheims, where Berlin re-
ports 1927 French prisoners were taken
in the capture of French positions.
The German successes at the To-
holy bridgehead on the Stokhod in
Volhynia are reported by Berlin to
have resulted in the capture of 100
Russian officers and $500 men.
Turkish troops are reported in re-
treat in Mesopotamia before the Rus
sian and British forces that joined
hands on the left bank of the Diala
river.