Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
HUN COMMANDER
IS REFORMING HIS
BATTERED ARMY
Allied Forces Play Waiting
Game For Coming
Attack
RFPILSE IS DISASTROUS
Strong Artillery Bombard-
ments Mark Fighting on
Principal Fronts
By Associated Press

Stunned by the severe punishment
inflicted by the British and French
the Germans in Flanders have given
I'D for the moment their attempt to
gain further hill positions west 'of
Mont KENNEL Meanwhile, 1t is pre-
sumed that General Won Arnim is
reforming his battered forces ana
bringing up new reserves TO hurl
against the granite Allied defense.
German occupation of Mont KEN
mel. although a strategic loss mas
not enabled the enemy to encroach
further into the British and French
positions southwest of Ypres nor has
it apparently brought any nearer the
evacuation of the fattened Hpres
salient. After the intense fighting oil
Monday, in which the Germans
strove desperately to enlarge their
gains on the high ground north oil
the Lys. there has been only local
fighting.
Huns Lose Positions
Apparently the Allied commanders
are content to hold on to their pres
ent line and to let the Germans
make more attacks in an endeavor to
drive them back. In their disastrous
repulse the Germans not only failed
to gain, although using larger
forces than the defenders, but they
were driven from some positions
they had held since the capture of
Mont KENNEL last week.
Along the Flanders front and in
Picardy strong artillery lombard
ments continue. The Germans have
been throwing great numbers of
shells into the French positions
around Hangard. south of the
Somme, probably in preparation for
still another attempt to drive the
French back to the Avre. \ German
attack in the Noyon sector brought
the enemy into French positions,
from which. however, they were
thrown out in spirited fighting.
u. s. Artillery Busy
American artillery on the Picardy
front has been busy shelling enemy
targets, but there has been no infan-
try activity. on the Toul sector
American aviators have brought
down a German machine, the third
in three weeks.
In Mesopotamia General Marshall
has advanced north-northeast of
Bagdad, captured two towns and
nearly 900 prisoners. The Turks
avoided battle at Kifra, 100 miles
northeast of Bagdad, and fled toward
Kirfuk, about 160 miles north and
on the main road to Mosul, appar-
emily the British objective. a re-
treating column was attacked and
more than 500 prisoners taken. Brit
y,v1N,,
mantli, about thirty miles northwest
of Kifra. The pursuit toward Kirfuk
continues.
PrussIans Demand Rights
Declaring that plutocratic suf-
frage. giving political rights to
wealth, is no longer possible in our
nation" Chancellor Won Hertling has
informed the lower house of the
Prussian Diet that it must pass the
electoral reform bill or give up more
rights to the people through force.
The Chancellor threatened the Prus-
slams with revolutions If they did not
meet the demand speedily Appar-
entity the Chancellor feared grave
disorders If the reform bill. which,
he admitted. was hedged around
with safeguards, is rot passed. A
motion to postpone action was de-
feated by five to one.
This is May Day, generally a time
for strikes in continental Europe.
There have been no irklings of pos
sible strikes within tn, central en-
pires except a call by the German
Socialists of Austria several days
ago for a peace strike on May l.
Scent "Peace Offensive"
Reports come through Holland that
newspapers in Cologne announce
Pope Benedict will make another
peace proposal on Whitsunday, May
10. and that IL will contain concrete
offers of mediation. Similar infor-
nation is declared to have reached
Berlin, where 1t was received SYM
pathetically. There have been other
reports recently from Germany that
the Pope was preparing to move
again for peace. 1t has been held in
Allied capitals that Germany would
launch a peace offensive" il the Of
fensive of the west failed of an
early victory.