Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-05-09
i, S, ARTILLERY
! ROUTS GERMANS
At LUNEv|LLE
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Huns Use New Gas Against YAM
KEGS in Picardy.
FRENCH DRIVE FOE OFF HILL
Allies Win Important Positions From
Germans Near Amiens-Haig's
Troops Repulse Attack at
Hinges on Flanders
Battlefield.

with the American OrccS Oh lle
French Front, May 1.-THE Germans
launched a heavy gas attack against
the American troops on the Picardy
front during the night. Early in the
evening they sent over $4,000 shells,
composed chiefly Of mustard gas, with
in a brief period.
These shells were followed by an in
tense artillery fire at midnight, several
hundred gas shells dropping into the
American lines.
Enemy airplaneS appeared over the
American lines about the same time.
'Antiaircraft guns brought down one
German machine and damaged an
other.
The extreme activity of the artil-
lery and aviat0rs, the rifle fire and
night flares and the reported move
mentS behind the enemy lines in this
sector may forecast q new attack but
General Pershing's men are ready for
any emergency.
Claim Yankee Prisoners.
Berlin, May 7.-American prisoners
have been captured by the Germans
in engagements southwest Of Blamont,
according to the war office statement.
"In engagements with the Americans
southwest of BlamOnt, we took priS-
onerS," the statement declares.
Americans Shell Towns.
With the American Army west of
Montdider, May 7.-American guns
are Smelling Nontdidier, Cantigny,
Mesnil-St Georges and other towns
and roads in this vicinity captured by
the Germans some time ago.
British Win Near MorIancourt.
London, May THE British took
200 prisoners in their local advance in
the region of MorlancOurt (halfWay
between the Somme and AlberD, Field
Marshal Haig announces.
The British line has been advanced
One-third Of a mile on a front of more
than q mile between the SOmme and
Ancre rivers WeSt-southweSt of Nor
lancourt says The official statement
from Field Marshal Haig's headQuar-
ters.
British positions in the neighbOr-
hood of LOGON and the Lave, on the
southern leg Of the Lys salient in Elan
derS, have been improved in local fight
ing.
U. S. Guns Wipe Out Foe.
With the American Army in France,
May GA successful artillery attack
and raid by the Americans in the Lune-
German Salients iutting intentionally
into our lines on this front
During the last three days the Amer
lean artillery in the Luneville sector
has completely chased the Germans
from their front positions and wiped
certain sections of the enemy rear off
the map. This is the same artillery
that not long ago gave similar per-
Torrance in another Lorraine sector.
Huns Use New Gas.
With the American Army on q
French Battle Front, May GA new
German liquifed gas was projected
against the Picardy front, where Amer
lean troops are fighting.
The gas is contained in glass bot
ties. On bursting they scatter fluid
from which heavy, white, transparent
fumes arise for five minutes.
No defamation was heard as the bot
ties were hurled. Apparently they were
thrown by n spring. The gas caused
nausea, SneeZing and coughing. but did
not harm any of the Americans.
Allies Advance at Ypres.
British Headquarters in France, May
6.-Franco-BritiSh forces, in the course
of n successful operation between
LOcre and Drancourt, advanced their
positions on Il thousand-yard front to
an average depth of 500 yards.
The British took is prisoners and
the French 80.
The enemy was driven from two or
three farms and the allies took some
high ground near KOutkot.
British Repulse Attack.
London, May 6.-German troops at
tackled the new positions gained by the
British Friday night on the Flanders
battle front near Hinges, northwest of
Bethume. They were repulSed, the
war office announces, the British line
remaining intact.
The British positions were i'm
proved in local operations northeast
OF AmienS, near Sally-le-Sec and north
OF Albert in the vicinity of Heburterne.
> The artillery on both sides is con-
tinuing its activity along the Lys bat
tie front.
Attacking on a front Of more than
q mile between Hailles and Castel
General Petan's troops drove the Ger
mans from Hill 50, an eminence of
some $50 feet overlooking the Avre
river, and captured the wood to the
east and southeast, Immediately Dor.
dering on the Avre.