Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-04-05
Teutons Believed to Have
Brought Up Heavy Guns,
Despite Almost impossible
Condition of Picardy Roads,
AUSTRIAN ATTACK IN
ITALY NOT LAUNCHED
Arnenians Organize Army and
Take Erzefum From Turks;
10000 of kaiser's Soldiers
Are Landed in Finland,


After several days of comparative
inactivity along the battle front in
Picardy bitter fighting has been re
sumed along the western sector of tho
salient in the lines of the entente
allies Attacks by the Germans
against the British and French are
admitted to have yielded some gains
to the invaders in the critical sectors
Just to east of the city of Amiens.
The fighting, according to latest re-
ports, has been heaviest in the neigh
borhood of Hamel. where the British
were forced back slightly and in the
triangle formed by the rivers Luce
and Avre, further to the south where
the French were forced to give
ground
Nothing is known as to the details
Of the battles in these sectors, but
the fact that the Germans have been
in degree successful would seem o
indicate that thev have succeeded in
. bringing up some of their heavier
4 canon and new divisions with which
to continue their attempts to capture
Amiens.
Reads Extremely Bad.
Reports from the French and Brit
ish fronts have mentioned heavy
rains, which would mean that the
Germans have been working under a
severe handicap in bringing up guns
ammunition and supplies to the front
The battlefield over which the allies
have retreated was left in a devast-
ated condition, the roads and bridges
being mined by the retreating forces
The lull in the battle for the last
few days probably was caused by the
inability of the Teutons to move their
heavy supply trains over these roads,
together with the necessity of re-
organizing the shattered divisions
which bore the brunt of the fighting
after they had passed the first field
of fire of their heavier guns.
British Forces Defensive.
The British since retaking Ayette
south of Arras, have not resumed
their offensive operations, so far as
reported by London, but the German
official statement says that four at
tacks by the entente forces against
the heights southwest of Moreuil were
repulsed with heavy losses. There
are no reports of fighting except out
post encounters along the French
lines on the Oise river.
There have been heavy artillery
bombardments of British positions on
the Menin road and at Passchendaele,
east and northeast of Ypres accord
ing to London AS yet, however, there
is nothing to foreshadow an effort by
the Germans to attack there.
Raids Near Vcrdun.
On the French front before
Rheims and Verdun raiding opera
tions have been carried out by the
French, which have been successful
The French report very heavy artll-
lery engagements north of Montdid-
ier, a sector which has witnessed saw
age fighting and where the Germans
have been foiled in their efforts to
advance toward the Paris-Amiens
railroad
Nothing has been reported from the
Italian front and it Is not likely that
an attack has been launched there
by the Austrians, who have gathered
an enormous army for a possiblt drive
southwark into the plains of northern
Italy.
Driven to take measures for their
defense, the Armenians have organ
lied an army and have captured Err
zerum from the Turks as well as 9TH
er points in the neighborhood of that
city,
The landing of German troops in
Finland is apparently going forward
reports stating that 10000 men have
arrived at Hango, a fortified port on
the extreme western tip of the Fin
nish peninsula.