The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-04-25
GERMANS HURL
RESERVES IN
BLOODY ATTACK
Third Day of the Great Bat
tie With the Issue Still
In Doubt.
SPANS NOTE !.
BRINGS CRISIS
Rumors of Great Attempt by
Germans in Russia
Growing.
(By Associated Press.)

One of the greatest and
most bitterly contested bat
ties of the war has entered
its third day on the British
front in France with the is
sue still in doubt. Massed
German reserves are being
hurled forward in a bloody
counter-attack in a supreme
effort to check the forward
surge of General Haig's
troops. Some minor posi-
tions, trench lines and rub
bish heaps, dignified by the
name of villages, have been
seized by the British, but the
Wotan line, their main OBJ
jective, is still intact.
While the mighty struggle in France
other fields Of the world. upheaval are
occurring with sensational rapidity.
Spain has taken a long step forward
on the path along which she is ap-
parently being pushed. slowly but
surely. into the universal conflagraS
ton. -
The Madrid government has adj
dressed a note to Germany which on
Its face. must result in an abandon
ment by Berlin of it's uncompromisiIIg
attitude on ruthless submarine war
fare or it's acceptance of a new and
important foe. The situation is some-
what modified by the fact that Count
Romanones who. as premier, dispatch-
ed the note, has since resigned.
Next in Importance are the growing
rumors Of great German attempt to
be made against Petrograd. The re-
ports are taken seriously enough in
the Russian capital to induce many
hundreds of civilians to fee to the
interior According to rumor. the
German plan is q comnined Assault by
sea and land: The political situation
in Russia remains confused but there
are uncomfortable reports of the
activity Of the radical Socialists and
of renewed outbreaks Of agrarian
troubles, some of a counter-revolu-
tionary character.
The unrest in Germany is having a
against Chancellor Won Bethmann-
HoIlweg by the conservatives and ma
tional liberals. The chancellor is be-
ing violently attacked for his alleged
subservience to Socialist influences.
In the meantime there are indica-
tions that the tremendous currents or
discomfort which are running through
Europe are growing in strength. The
visit of the king. of Denmark to
Stockholm is regarded as of particular
Significance in view of the recent
Of the Swedish work
ers against the government. May day
is expected to bring matters to
climax in Sweden. Hjalmar Branting.
the Swedish Socialist leader, has
warned the government against undue.
with the great labor
planned for that day.
In pushing the British offensive to-
day Gen. Sir Douglas Haig directed an
attack along the front between the
Cojeul and Scarpe rivers. This is a
roughly from Guemappe north 70
Fampoux. almost directly east OF
Arras, where probably the most
fighting of the offensive has
taken place. Monchy-le-P -Preux lies
within this area. Further ground has
been seized by the British here, says
today's official statement, and the
gains have been secured.
The number OF prisoners taken by
the British since the resumption of the
attack in force on Monday has passed
3. 900.
South of the Arras battle front Gen
eraI Haig is eating bit by biz into the
German lines between Cambrai and
St. Quentin. The British front was
moved forward two-thirds of q mile
Al one point last night south OF the
Cambrai road, where the
little village of Bilhem, southeast OF
he Havrincourt wood, was occupied.
With the French armies along the
Afsne front and in the Champagne
he battle just now is confined mainly
20 the artillery.