The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-06-19
Heavy Fighting Along Hindenburg
Line In Northern France, While
Germans Before Ypres Give
Ground Before Haig's Attacks
FRENCH LAUNCH AN
ALBANIAN INVASION
Led BY AeropIanes, Cavalry and
Infantry Start Drive Across
ThessaIy Plains With Possible
Plan of Joining With Italians
ASSOCIATED Press By U. s. Naval Com.
munication Service) ,ss.

huAhSabiOh oSANASSl
INEW YORK, June l7--Hour-
IN ly the British continue to
add to their gains of territory IN
Northern France and in Belgium,
in the latter region without great
difficulty, but i'll France only in
the face of the most stubborn de-
fense., This is due, in the opinion
of the military critics, to the fact
THAT the Belgian positions are not
strategically as important as
lthose to the south, where the re-
tention Of the Drocourt- Queant
| line is essential to the hold Won
Hindcnburg desires to retain on
Douai. To lose this point will
mean the surrender of the great
er part OF Northern France, ii
not the great part of all the ter
ritory held by the Germans south
and west Of the French border.
5 Thus, while the Teutons are
making only a half-hearted effort
, Ito stem the tide of British victory
east and north of Ypres, where
! Haig's men swept forward for
5 important gains yesterday, they
are striving desperately to retain
0 their positions north Of Bulle-
: court, the loss of which will mean
o the rolling up of the last defense
line before Douai. Despite the defense
and in the face of heavy losses. thu
british are steadily gaining here, al
well as to the north, according to last
night s official announcements in LON
don. ~ ls.''l. ~
r Desperate Counters 40. AZ 80
n Yesterday the Germans launched 1
series Of counter attacks in an effort /,
recover the positions in the Hindenburf
line lost to the British ON Friday. Tn,
capture Of these had cost General Hal.
?, many hundreds of his men, while TO re
gain them the Germans are sacrifcin,
as many and more, with the British still
holding grimly on and extending thei
grip on either flank.
The steady. advances of the British
T. in Belgium lead many to the belief tha
e there is already under way a genera
il retreat of the main German forces ol
this sector, possibly the precursor Of an
J" other such general withdrawal a
Y marked the conclusion of the battle 3
h the Somme.
IN Albania Invaded .....s H..
ia This fighting in northern France an
~ Belgium was one of three outstandin
3 features of the war Developments o
yesterday. Another was an invasion O
e. Albania, launched by the French, who's
!" aviators led the way across the Grecia
10 line south of Lake Presna, raiding III
al Bulgarian camps at Lake Malik, in tn
a Thessaly district. The French eayalr
er drove the Bulgars from the villages q
ar Kalabaka, Trikkala, Hardista, Sopl
or rades and Demerili, while the infantr
It, moved forward and occupied the tow
of VOlO. The cavalry advance is ha,
st ing no difficulty in making its wa
IS south through the Albanian plain
1t where it is possible n juncture with II
be Italians will be made. p. +
d. Germans Wiped Out ,......
st. Paris reports violent artillery due
on in the Champagne and along the Aileti
IT. River front between Carnillet and MOI
Blond. The infantry fighting was co
fined to a direct counter attack by Il
4 French against the positions at Cour,
v occupied by the Germans in their III
\ days drive. BY last night tho emit
section was again in French hand
m with the entire German occupying for,
II wiped out, either captured or killed.
" The artillery fighting in Belgium, b
tween the Belgian and French gunne
and their German foes, has died dow
49, until only an intermittent duelling
- kept up except before Steenstraete al
Hetsas, where the big guns are inereB