New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-04-27
HA|C INITIATES
new OFFENSIVE
cRUSHES HiNDENBURo LINE IN
CONTEST FOR POSSESSION
OF LENS COAL FIELDS.
R0UT TURKS ON TICR|S
BRITISH CAPTURE VILLAGES AND
STRATEGIC POSITIONS SOUTH
OF THE RIVER scARPA.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington, April 25.-The United
States has given its word that it will
fight in conjunction with the allies
until the Prussian autocracy is crushed
and Americans at home and abroad are
safe from the ruthlessness of the Der.
lin government.
This was the outcome of the first
conference here Monday between
President Wilson and Right Honorable
Arthur J. Balfour, British secretary OF
state for foreign affairs. The only 9TH
err participant in the conference, which
lasted forty minutes, was Secretary of
State Lansing.
British Headquarters in France,
April 25.-In the new offensive the
British captured the town of Gavelle,
the last part of the defenses of the
Hindenburg line north of the Scarpe.
They also have taken the village OF
Guemappe, south of the Scarpe.
A big push also was made opposite
Croisilles and from that sector of the
front alone ONE the report that
more than 1000 prisoners were taken.
Gavelle is a part of the last definite
defense the Germans have been falling
back on, which is known as the DrO-
court-Queant switch to the Hindenburg
line.
Further south, British troops have
captured the remainder of the village
Of Trescault and occupied the greater
part of Havrincourt wood, which
formed a two-mile bulge in their line.
From this point to st. Quentin the
line approached very closely the Cam
brai-St. Quentin road and canal.
The British also made progress in
the region southwest of Lens, the Ger
man garrison of which town is daily
facing a more critical situation.
Airplanes fairly filled the air over
the battle lines Monday directing the
artillery and cooperating with the in
fantry. Sunday British aviatOrs
brought down 28 German observation
balloons.
London.-The Turks in M%esopotamia
have evacuated the Iztabilat position,
on the right bank of the Tigris ten
miles below Samara, the war office an
nounces. They are now being attacked
at a point six miles nearer Samara.
Peking.-The war sentiment in
China is increasing daily. The Chin
csc are incensed over the action Of
Germany in OBTAINING the Chinese
minister in Berlin pending the safe ar
rival of Won Hintze, German minister
to Picking. There is also great indig.
nation over the detention of Chinese
students in Berlin and Munich.
Washington, April pa State De-
partment dispatch yesterday told how
a German submarine several days age
sank an unarmed freight steamer
whose name vas not given, placed the
crew of nineteen, including five
Americans, on the submarine deck
and when a British patrol boat was
sighted, dived suddenly, leaving the
nineteen to struggle for their lives in
the water. Tue men managed tc
reach a boat.
London.-Two British hospital ships
sunk by submarines with loss of sixty.
three persons, fifteen of them Ger
mans.
In the Champagne district Germans
have launched a series of counter at
tacks, which have been %repulsed with
severe losses, according to the Lon
don and Paris war statements.
Berlin says the French suffered
heavily nea Braye and the Hurtebise
farm when moving up infantry into
position to attack.
Bombardments have become intense
again on the Austro-Italian front
Heavy fighting reported in Mace
donia.
Berlin admits loss of two de
stroyers in raid on Dover. German
destroyers fire 100 shells into Calais,
Official reports indicate big battle
is brewing on the Aisne, where the
British and French guns are hammer.
ing the German lines with renewed
intensity. No intensive infantry &C
ton reported yet but artillery duel Of
extreme violence is in progress.