The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-04-18

w ICScl1aele were IetdhSii -! tHe Div
iSh and held for time. Among the
most disturbing news came an admiS-
sion from London that the British had
retired from certain lines in the IpreS
salient. The official news states that
the retirement was orderly, and that
the probability is that it will have
more of ii sentimental than ii strategic
effect. The British took the offensive
on the .ArraS front and drove the Ger
mans out Of British trencheS which
bad been carried by the enemy.
The first American prisoner to eS-
cape from Germany, says lie Temps,
has reached Basel. Switzerland.
The Senate has rejected the confer
Cnce report eml,odying the clause per-
n,ttin. labor on government work to
strike.
\ cousin of President Wilson. Capt
Woodrow Woodbridge. was wounded
in action. as mentioned in last weeks
casualty list.
A shell from the long-range German
gun struck ii founding asylum in the
outskirts of Paris. KILN. three persons
and wounding eleven.
British counter attacks last Friday
overcame much of the German advan-
tase over Il wide area and slowed up
the momentum of the thrust.
According to late official bulletins.
eleven persons were killed and fifty in-
iured in IA German aerial raid OH the
east coast of England last Friday night.
France has been called upon to aid
in hastening the movement of Ameri-
can troops across the sea by sending
additional officers for the training
camps.
German forces launched heavy at
tacks against the French last Friday i'll
| the Hanyard- ell -Sauterne sector. Sev-
er;,l attacks by the Germans ended in
| failure.
American and French troops fighting
together last Friday repelled German
attack in the Apremont forest. The
Americans captured numerous pris-
oners.
| The much discussed peace letter of
the Austrian Emperor has been for
warded to all the Allies. but little at
tention was paid to it. says a Paris
dispatch.
\ Salvation Army worker, just re-
turned from Europe. stated the other
day that American troops wiped out Il
German raid party, accounting for 1So
out Of 200 of the enemy.
At Paris the latter part of last week
there was issued Il note which revealed
an offer of Emperor Charles to pro,
mote peace by advocating Frances
claim to Alsace-Lorraine.
German airplaneS attempted Il raid
on Paris last Friday night. Only two
succeeded in flying over the Paris dis
trict, dropping few bombs. The mum
Der Of victims is not known.
On the lth, 9th and 18th the streets
of Hangard were scenes of horrible
carnage both night and day, when the
Germans were driven from house tt
house before French battalions.
-Four lives were lost when the Ley
land liner Etonian was tOrpedoed ant
; sunk off the Irish coast March 2:'d, ac
. cording to a member of the crew wh'
arrived ut an Atlantic port Monday ol
Il British steamer.
Fifteen hundred Aemcnians. survl
vors of the many thousands of victim
exiled from Jerusalem by the Turk
: two and Il half years ago to the wilder
E ness east of the River Jordan. hav
: been rescued by the British.
The Germans have made their firs
. capture of an American aviator. says
semiofiicial Berlin dispatch. The Amer
lean aviator is described as an eng
neer by profession. who since Septen
: her last has served with the Frenc
forces.
. American marines have been lande
:. at VladivoStok. as well as British an
. Jap;lneSe forces. according to advice
from that place. The Americans i'll
in control Of the docks. while the Jal
= anese are guarding the railway an
ammunition depotS.
g 4 bill has been introduced in I'll
Is Chamber of Deputies of France PROVE
:. in. that any subject Of an enemy pow'
Ia who has not declared his nationality
the police authorities within wee
after the bill becomes Il law shall
. treated as Il spy and shot.
20 \ London cahlegram says that neg
;, tiations regarding the possibility
ID peace between the United States al
10 Austria Hungary have been carried {
H. between Prof. Anderson. of Washin
ton, and Count Stephen TisZa III
. Count julius AndraSsy. former Hu
=, garian premiers.
ir Again last Saturday American troo
t. repulsed German attacks in the sect
i'm northwest of Toul. The casualties
,g the enemy were heavy. and the Anne
al cans captured prisoners and quaint
no of war material. The prisoners tax
II said they had had no food for t'
or days. The American losses were sligl
During an attack of the Germ;l
ut against the American forces, you
yh Italian, born in Pennsylvania. Kill
IL one German and captured three. Up
is returning to the American lines
rs turned the prisoners over to III
is Commissioned officer. and coolly ask
.es for Il match The officer, i'll Jo
Id said: III give you a match II
Mt bring in another prisoner" The ltali;
tie who is only five feet and four inches
as height. went back over the paral
and i'll less than five minutes return