The Elbert County tribune. [volume] (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920, 1918-05-24
THIRTYsEvEN KILLED AND 1se
INJURED IN ATTACK ON LON
DON AND ESSEX COAST.
RIOT IN CITY OF PRAGUE
PETAIN FORCES ADVANCE ON
TWo-MILE FRONT IN DASH
NEAR LOCRE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

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London, May ga heavy German
counter attack against the British
J lines northwest of Merville along
front about two-thirds of mile broke
down under the strong British resist
ance, according to Field Marshal
Haig's report from British headquar-
tiers in France TIE French also re-
/ pulsed an attack north of Bailleul
For the most part, the Germans have
shown but little of their habitual fight
! ing spirit along the line in France
They have been thrust back in four
sectors, and the allies have succeeded
4 in winning ground which will be OF
great Importance in the future.
The attacks by the French near
Locre, on the northern side of the Lys
salient, and of the Australians before
Amiens, appear to have been more
successful than was at first under
stood. Near Locre the French have
not only taken strongly fortified
points. but they have made secure
their lines on each side of Hill No. "A.
which they recSptured from the Ger
uduS IeceHtly. lie AuStrdilduS, tOo,
have won ground which is of tactical
Importance along the Amiens sector.
With the knowledge that the passing
of each day brings new American le-
gionD to help crush the next German
offensive, the allies are finding salts
faction in the fact that the Germans
have as yet been unable to launch
new blow in the struggle which Berlin
had expected to be the decisive one of
the war.
In their raid on London Sunday
night the Germans lost five aeroplanes.
Two others are reported to have been
brought down at sea.
"Adjutant Demeulemeester brought
down his tenth aeroplane In five days
this Belgian aviator also set fire to
three war balloons.
Turkish troops at Adm, Asia Minor.
have mutinied.
London, May 21-During the aerial
fighting Saturday twenty-seven Ger
man airplanes were destroyed, three
were driven down out of control and
three German balloons were burned.
according to the report on aerial op,
erations issued by the war office.
Twelve British machines are missing.
Thirty-seven persons were killed
and 155 injured in the London area
during the air raid and six persons
were injured in the provinces.
In sharp operations around Locre
French troops made an important ad-
vance on front Of more than two
miles and captured over 400 prisoners,
according to Field Marshal Haig's re-
port from British headquarters in
France. The German artillery devel-
oped increased activity along the
front between Albert and Bucyuoy,
the war office announces.
1 With the British Army In France,
May 21.-The French troops, who are
fighting alongside the British, have
carried another of their whirlwind at
tacks to a successful conclusion in the
Flanders battlefield, and have thereby
I advanced their line along a 4.OOO-yard
front in the Locre sector Several
hundred German prisoners have thus
far been brought in. The prisoners
have been sent on the happy road to
the French rear.
Active artillery fighting near Han
gard, on the front near Amiens, is re-
ported in the Paris official statement.
Northwest of Rheims French de-
tachment penetrated to the German
third line, taking prisoners.
London.-A state of siege has been
proclaimed at Prague. the Bohemian
capital. by the police, and the military
garrison has been reinforced These
counter measures, according to an Elk
change Telegraph dispatch from Eur
ich. followed demonstrations of an an
ti-German character in which Czechs
and Jugo-Slavs paraded through the
streets shouting:
Long live Wilson, Clemenceau and
; Lloyd George!"
At a performance in the Bohemian
national theater speeches violently at
lacking Germany were delivered and
the renewal of the alliance between
Germany and Austria-Hungary was de-
nounced. Several deputies addressed
the crowd. urging resistance to the
end sacrifice of wealth and blood for
Bohemia
The theater was then closed and
rioting occurred in the streets outside.