The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-23

HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE,
April % (By Canadian Press Limited)
= The Canadians during the last
twelve hours have raided the German
lines at places. gassed the enemy
with thousands of Iachrymatory and
Lethal shells. harassed him by special
artillery shots, swept his trenches with
machine gun and rife bullets and ham.
mered his front line with trench NOR.
tars.
(By Associated PressD
LONDON, April 23.-The British at
tack last night north of Albert was
carried out on a front of about LOCO
yards. Reuters correspondent at the
British headquarters reports that an
advance was made to a depth of $50
yards.
(By Associated Press)
There are evidences of German con.
centration for a renewal of the great
battle on the Somme front. Field Mar
shal Haig reports enemy activities of
this nature in the vicinity of Villers-
Brettoneux where the German wedge
south of the Somme has been pushed
further toward Amiens.
The enemy masses were taken under
fire by the British artillery. as were
similar concentrations north of the
Somme, near Serre, seXen miles north
Of Albert
The Germans are heavily lombard
ing the region west OF Albert and the
entire northern side of the salient
along the Lys. on the Flanders front.
The Paris war office reports consider.
able artillery activity also in the
Somme battle area.
The chief activity of the British in
fantry last night was north of Albert
where the defensive position was i'm.
proved and 60 prisoners taken.
Local fighting in which the British
the Lys front near Robecq and the
neighborhood OF Wytschaete, in the
wide region. to the northeast
Germany expects declarations of war
against her by Argentina and Uruguay
according to Berlin dispatches through
Amsterdam and the German news
papers have been told to prepare the
public for such action by these re-
publics.
Not Fully Prepared
e
pronounced but the enemy apparently
is not fully prepared for his next
blow. The allied forces are making
ready their defenses and 1t is believed
the Germans will not delay resump-
ton of heavy fighting much longer.
German raids on both the northern
and southern battlefields indicate the
enemy is telling out his adversarles,
who realize that the longer the Ger
mans hold off their new attack the
heavier 1t is likely to be. Southwest
Of Ypres the Germans are massing
large bodies Of troops on rhe northern
leg Of the salient probably in prepara-
tion for further attempts to overcome
the Mont KENNEL positions and out
flank Ypres. They have carried out
small raids in the vicinity Of LaBasse
and Feetubert, where the southern leg
Of the salient joins the old battle line.
In the center the British have further
improved their position around RobecQ.
On the Picardy battlefield the Ger
mans show increased activity north OF
the Somme to Albert. This is at the
base Of the triangle whose apex 10
the juncture Of the Somme and Ancre
rivers, almost directly east Of Amiens.
1t Is not improbable that the Ger
mans may attack simultaneously the
British lines in Flanders and those d.
rectly north of the Somme in an ef-
fort to wipe out the strong Arras posi-
tion. Field Marshal Haig has held
stubbornly to the Aras sector for
month and his line south Of Albert
has fought of numerous enemy at.
tacks since the first week of the often.
sive movement South of the Somme
the German artillery fire continues
strong on the Montdidier-Noyon sec
tor
Angio-French airmen are harrass-
ing the enemy by dropping many tons
of bombs on his military establish
ments behind both battlefronts. In
serial fighting 81 German airplanes
have been accounted for by allied
aviators.
The Germans have mot repeated
their attack on the American lines
east of ST. Mihiel. General Pershing
is understood to have reported to
Washington that the American cas-
ualties in Saturdays brisk fight ex-
ceeded 200 and that those of the en-
emy were between 300 and 400.
Fighting operations in Macedonia,
although evidently not on large
scale, are quite active. British. Ser
bian, French and Italian troops have
been engaged with the enemy on the
front between Monastir and Doiran.
At Veterik, the Serbians captured an
important position from the Bulgar-
ians and held il against a cOunter-at-