, 1918-05-16

ltdildu HULL.
Americans repulse German raid on
Picardy front.
Germans continue "frightfulness"
bombardment on Amiens.
Six more Americans have been dec
orated with the croix de guerre.
British casualties reported during
the week ending May Z reached a to-
tai of 1851.
British hold firm on western front
and repulse repeated German attacks,
regaining some positions lost.
French troops captured Grivesnes
Park, five miles northwest of Mont
didier, the Paris wal office
Russian warships have bombarded
German forces in the harbor of Mar
tupol, the Berlin war office announced.
Tuesday, May 7, was the third ami
versary of the sinking of the Lusitania
by a German submarine with a loss of
1,275 lives.
Six German aeroplanes were
brought down Thursday by Sublieu-
tenant Rene Fonck, the Paris war of
flee
INSTRUMENTATION, the largest city
in the Don Cossack territory and near
the mouth of the Don river, has been
occupied by the Germans.
North of the Somme, the Austral-
ians advanced 700 yards on a 1900
yard front Sunday, and early Monday
they added another 500 yards on a q
000-yard front.
In air fighting British aviators
have accounted for t%wenty-nine Ger
man machines, twenty-five of which
were destroyed. One enemy airplane
was brought down by rifle fire.
British troops on May Z entered the
Turkish town of Kerkuk, eighty miles
southeast of Mosul, in Mesopotamia,
the British war office announced. The
British met with no opposition. The
Turks on retiring left 900 men in the
Kerkuk hospital.
British naval forces again raided
the German naval base at Ostend, on
the Belgian coast, blockading the en-
trance to the harbor by sinking the
old cruiser Vindictive, which partici-
pated in the recent raid on Z%eebrugge.
The previous raid, which was carried
out early on the morning of April %,
was conducted simultaneously against
Ostend and Zeebrugge. The latter
port is believed to have been COM
pletely blocked through the sinking
of two concrete-filled cruisers in the
channel.
WESTERN
Liberty bonds of the first and sec
ond issues may not be converted into
bonds of the third issue until July l,
according to, word from government
~heaquarters.
That the National Socialist party
has entered into an agreement to
raise funds for the defense of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, on
trial before Judge Lands in Chicago
on charges of violation of the espion-
age laws, vas denied at Socialist
headquarters.
Nineteen deaths, twelve in Iowa and
seven in Illinois, and a property loss
estimated at more than $l,000,0 900,
was the total taken by Thursdays tor
made which swept through Iowa and
Illinois. Approximately $50 persons
were more or less seriously injured,
WASHINGTON
Approximately 40 per cent of the
men in the United States now listed
In class one will be called to the col
ors this year.
Wheat flour substitutes should sell
F.z-, an - m ~ ,,.t 1n.- tho, ,rtlant
flour, Food Administrator Hoover nc
titled state food administrators
With work on the third Liberty
loan unfinished, the treasury's loan
publicity bureau has started prepare
lions for the fourth loan, which will
be held ext fall.
More than 10000 communities won
Liberty loan honor flags by subscrib-
ing or oversubscribing their quotas.
Reports to the treasury show that the
Chicago district won 1865 flags,
Minneapolis 3.O41, Cleveland 1899,
Boston 1893, Atlanta S91, Philadel-
phia 1852. and st. Louis, which gave
flags only to full counties, 1876.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska was
Ihdue ChdiIhhdH VI the oeHdle foreign
relations committee. Mr.. Hitchcock,
who was senior Democratic member
Of the committee. succeeds the late
Senator Stone in a Encouragement of
Democratic committee assignments
caused by recent deaths of several
senator's.
A special prayer for the cessation
of the eyila tOrmentinP humanity dur-
ing mass on st. Peters day, June 20,