The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-25
GERMAN LINE INTACT
Reserves Being Hurled Against
General Haig's Troops to Stem
Advance of Allies
TAKES STEP TOWARD
ENTERING WORLD CONFLICT
Combined Sea and Land Encount.
er Planned Against Petro.
grad by Teutons

One Of the greatest and most bit.
terly contested battles OF the war
has entered its third day on the Brit
ish front in France. with the issue
still in doubt. Massed German re-.
serves are being hurled forward in q
bloody counter attack in a supreme
effort to check the forward surge of
General Haig's troops Some minor
positions, trench lines and RUBBISH
heaps, dignified by the name of VII.
lagos, have been seized ny the Brit.
ish, at the Wotan line, their main OBJ
jective, is still intact.
Spain May Enter War.
While the mighty struggle In
France RACES inconclusively. develop
ments in the other fields of the world
upheaval are occurring with sensa-
tional rapidity. Spain has taken q
long step forward on the path along
which she is apparently being push
ed, slowly but surely into the univer.
sal cOnfagratiOn. 4ttsH. EI
The Madrid government has nd
dressed a note to Germany, which on
it's face, must result in an abandon
ment by Berlin of its uncomb rOmis-
ing attitude on ruthless s,lbmarihe
warfare or it's acceptance Of new
and important foe. The situation Is
somewhat modified by the fact tAat
Count Aomanones, who, as premier.
dispatched the note, has since re.
signed. ...s.s .
Move Against Russia.
Next in Importance are the grow
ing rumors Of a great German At-
tempt to be made against PetrOgrad.
The reports are taken seriously
enough in the Russian capital to in
duce many hundreds of civilians to
flee to the interior. According to ~.
NOR, the German plan is comMq9d
assault by sea and land ThGfMlff.
cal situation in Russia remaikSs S0h-
fused, but there are uncomfortable
reports of the activity Of the radical
Socialists. and of renewed outbreaks
Of aggrarian troubles, some of
counter revolutionary character.
The unrest in Germany is having
new manifestation in the outburst
against Chancellor Won Bethmann
Holwegg by the conservatives and
national liberals The chancellor Is
being violently attacked for his ~.
legged subservience to Socialist inhu-
ences.
Unrest in Sweden.
In the meantime, there are indicd-
tions that the tremendous current Of
discomfort which are running through
Europe are growing in strength. The
visit of the king of Denmark to
Stockholm is regarded as OF particu-
lar significance in view of the recent
of the Swedish work
ers against the government. May
day is expected to bring matters to 4
climax in Sweden. Hjalmar Brant-
ing, the Swedish Socialist leader, has
warned the government against un.
due interference with the great labor
demonstration planned for that day.
British Make Progress
In pushing the British offensive to-
day, General Sir Douglas Haig direct
ed an attack along the front between
the "Cojuel and Scarte river. This Is
SL1cLCu VI dUOuI InIco luA0Ss "a
tending roughly from GuemAppe
north to Fampoux. almost directly
east of Arras. where probably the
most desperate fighting of tae OMEN.
sive has taken place. Monchy-le-
Preux lies within, this area Further
ground has been seized by the Brit.
ish here, says today's omcial state.
ment, and the gains have been So
cured
The number of prisoners taken BY
the British since the resumption OF
the attack in force on Monday. has
passed 5000.
Eating Into Line.
South of the Arras battle front
General Ha:g is eating bit by bit Into
the German lines between Cambraf
and St. Quentin. The British front
was moved forward two-thirds q
mile at one point last night south Of
the apaume-Cambrai road, whsre
the little village of Bilhelm, south
east of the Havrincourt wood. was
occupied.
With the French armies along tao
Aisne front, and in the Champagne.
the battle just now is confined main
ly to tae artillery.