Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-11
War Experts Insist That Huns Are
Opening Way TO Resume Often
sive on Wide Front.
BULGARS HIT HARD
IN MACEDONIA FIGHT
French and Italian Troops in Pur
suit Of Fleeing Austrian
Hosts in Albania
ALLIES VICToRS IN AIR

Associated Press summary ISSUED ss 3 n =
German artillery and aerial ~tr
has increased On hc Fiaudors at-e
field b'i' he infan'ry -tiIl + held Is ,ner
klewhere ou The western front hcrs
been d. marked activity except olt
wegt of scissors where ~ frrucr h4-
advanced and further improved ro
positions
since he ms,val gf nn auem,
bardmentz most attention h4- .rrr -a.H
to the sectors north and south r-
~Oynnc rls+ ~ 8micus and te -rr is-
salient we~t 81 Iazehrouck ap
portanf railway supply center t"
Flanders region l nc German guns ar.
busy pounding he .nctor- ~ Hinges ru
the south and Lore 9n iae north as ta
Lys battle ground ln Picarjv fH"
about MCrlancourf i hefrg -heiied
Hrv~ BF.TF~ r .H ttr
l-neinv tv1atOra 3ho lsd .n
very active on 'he British portion X 'hr
battle !ine are gu0e u a,- Irucr
Flanders British alrmcH u battles tif
the Germans have 4ccounfed iDr IN
them while another fen cfora rne HrtI-t
antl-aircraft fire British perortg
the air now j firmly established and 4 ght
ing scouts and bombing planes have plt-
fought and harassed the enemy IN .n-
Vulnerable occasions recently
The French continued heir Janming
tactics last night 0n The westerly SIDE q
the Marne salient. southwest 0f ~0issnn-
capturing the town and railway station
OF Corey and the farm and chatrau of 4
Paul, south ~ the town.
PETATN "a PrUREs TNpORTA ,-T p EFN-E
The gain of ground serves stliL iurrner
TO protect the forest of N'llers-t 0tt4rets
otherwise called rhe Retz forest Ehicn
forms q buiwark " the defense of Com
pIegne, the important French base amp
railway junction. On the east of that town
On the British front. south of the
Somme. Field Marshal Hang infantry
pushed still farther forward last night ana
won additional ground east of Fiilers-
Bretonneux. on the ridge winch stands q
an important east ward defense u the
Allied base al Amlens
kaIdIng operations comprised the nalo-
portion Of the activities On the remainder
of he Allied front
SERIES uE IaPORTA SIT GAINS
The operation en the french iront
resulting in the capture III Corcv gains
ninterest in lhat II represents connnua-
ton of a series OF important iOcal attacks
On ms front, between the AIsne and rne
Marne, begun nv General Peialn on
sunday Il lS along mis- line hat tne
Allies apparently eouRt D. VliiTe probable
that the German, viii RESUME neir cl-
fenslye
sunday attack took the form q, a drive
that carried the French ne forward two-
thirds Of q mile on two-inile 'front.' north
oi the LOngponJ region, ln this AREA he
gain here was extended Ou luesuay Nnile
during the Oay ui Wednesday The iron
of operations was shifted further south
and the outsolrts of LongpOnr and Corey
we're reached.
PRESSING FORWARD an cpH,
During last night. - to4ay statement
from Paris shows. the French mAae gooG
their occupation 0i Corcy anu drove n
stil farther south ol the Inc s0r d Shor'
distance.
The net result, together with an earhe-
operation further north. ATE 10 Euue
when dangerous salient east ot the
Laycrsine ravine winch fbe Germans
created in their june offensive sas y Iped
our, Is that tne French front now runs t1
nearly 5 straight me along s ,eric, o.
strong positions for distance 81 ap-
proximately - miles from The Nisue
southwark 70 below Corey
Between this and she American sector.
70 the south, northwest oi Chateau
Thierry, there stli Is q westward bulge In
the line The French pressure on -nc
north and the American on the south
however, seems likely 70 result h the
" iping out Of this salient al he .ontlnua-
ton of the present Entente tactics of locs
plungcs in this sector, L me Germans
hold or much longer Ia launching their
expected renewed offensive
AUsTRIANS DEFEATED u NLRANTA
Under tranco-.Italian pressure -ne
Austrian troops Ia Aibsnis have retired
beyond the Berat-Fleri line in the direc-
bon of the SkumbI river and ElbaSau
the nearest natural defence southwark
The evacuation Of Berat announced from
Vienna, probably Was due to the Italian
progress around tieri and the French
advance between Lake Ochrlda and The
Tornorica valley up which thc Austriaus
also are retrelang pursued by the allied
forces
BULGAEs GET sTA0GEF,gsG aLOw.
The fighting in the Macedonian theatre
has spread eastward and the BulgariAns
are making strong attacks north OF Mon
astir apparently to draw allied attention
from Albania The Bulgar attacks were
repulscd with heavy losses by the French.
There is great danger that Che Bulgarian
lines east OF Lake Ochrida VIII be OUT
fianked should the allied forces reach the
SkumbI AZ EibaSan
Reports that Admiral Won Hlntze. p
strong pan-Ciermau, was e. be named as
SUCCESSOR TO Foreign Secretary Won kuchi-
mann, resigned, have caused a small crisis
in the Reichstag. The Socialists have
declined to vote the war credit which
cannot be passed without their sid,
until the new secretary announces his
policies Apparently Won Hjntzc had
been selected, but the action ~ the Social
ists brought forth more guarded semi
official announcement which declared the
admiral had been named No Official
announcement Of Won kuehlman sue
cessor has been made.