Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-08-10

% American soldiers are now in
ing front.
forces between the Aisne and Marne
began a strong counter offensive on
a twenty-eight-mi front between
the Scissors sector and Belleau wood
northwest of Chateau-Thierry) max
ing a gain of over seven miles in the
initial fighting and capturing num-
Der of villages. This offensive, which
was evidently taken to relieve the
pressure against Rheims and Eper-
nay, extended along the entire west
ern flank of the Aisne-Marne salient.
Italians Repulsed Last of 1917.
Italian Frcnt-The latter half of
1917 was marked by a series of bril-
liant offensive operations by the Ital-
ians on the southwestern front and
they had extended their lines east
ward of Gorilla and thru the Balm
sizza and Chateau Plateaux. On De-
cember "a last the Austrians, sup
ported by heavy forces of Germans,
began an offensive which changed this
front completely. The Italians were
thrown back across the Isonzo river,
then across the Tagliamento, and fin
ally were forced to the western bank
of the Piave river, nearly eighty miles
at one point, to the westward of where
the old battle positions stood.
Balkan Front-It was not until the
past few weeks that there was any
material change on this front. Early
this month the Italians and French,
supported on the Adriatic coast by
British warships, began a surprise
offensive which rolled the Austro-
Hungarians back from twenty-five to
thirty-five or more miles. The Aus
tro- Hungarian hold on the coast was
badly shaken and they lost their base
at Berat-
Eastern Front-This front collapsed
shortly after the Russian revolution.
The Germans entered Riga, captured
the Oesel Island group and proceeded
to occupy large stretches of Esthonia,
Livonia and Lithuania.
In Turkey the British have main
tanned their steady pressure in both
Mesopotamia and Palestine. The
greatest achievement of the British
in Turkey, from a combined military
and political viewpoint, was the &C.
cupation of Jerusalem on December 9
last.
A great feature of the past year
and one of peculiar interest to the
United States was the fact that Amer
lean soldiers took their place upon
the firing line in France and now hold
various sectors of the front between
the North Sea and the Swiss frontier.
Americans Hold Vital Sectors.
Americans have been placed upon
vital parts of the front, which is a
splendid tribute to their fighting quail
tiles. They are helping defend the
some of them have been brigaded
with Australians in the Somme val
ley. where the Germans are expected
to begin another effort to break thru
to Amiens and Abbeville.
The first clash between German
and American troops took place on the
third of last November on the Toul
front. Since then Americans have
been placed upon the following sec
tors:
/. With the British in Flanders
and on the Somme.
2. With the French north and
south of Mantididier (Picardy 'front.'.
8. With the French on the Marine
and in Champagne.
4. On the heights of the Mouse
(near Verdun).
s. In French Lorraine.
6. In the Vosges mountains Cup
per Alsace).
On both the Picardy and Marine
fronts the boys from the U. S. A. dis
tinguished themselves for their valor
in action and won the praise of their
commanding generals. They cap
tured some villages and patches of
woodland which the Germans had for
titled to a point they (the Germans)
thought made them impregnable.
On Sea and in the Air.
There have been no big naval en-
gagements of the past year, altho
there are some achievements that
stand out conspicuously for the daring
with which they were accomplished:
1. The blocking Of the German
submarine bases at Zeebrugge and Os-
tend by British seamen.
9. The feat of several Italian sail
ors in running the defenses of the
great Austro- Hungarian naval base
at Pola, where dreadnought was
sunk by torpedoes fired from small
motor boat.
8. The splendid achievement of the
American navy in transporting up
ward of !, 500 900 men to Europe with
out the loss of any American trans
ports on the eastern voyage.
The Germans have combined their
campaign of U-boat frightfulness, in
Producing fresh atrocities by what ap-
peared to be an organized series OF
attacks against Red Cross hospital
ships. Their boast that they would
win the war by starving England,
France and Italy thru the destruc-
ton Of merchantmen has been deci-
sively punctured.
In the air the allies now hold alb
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