The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-10
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ROUTS GERMANS
At LUNEV|LLE
Huns Use New Gas Against Yam
KEGS in Picardy.
CANADIANS WIN NEAR ARRAS
Allied Artillery Sweeps Troop Assem-
blage Points as Huns Prepare for
New BIoW-French Take
CaptiVes.

With the American Forces on the
French Front, May 1.-THE Germans
launched q heavy gas attack against
the American troops on the Picardy
front during the night. Early in the
evening they sent over 15,OOO Shells
composed chiefly of mustard gas, with
in brief period.
These shells were followed by an in
tense artillery fire at midnight, several
hundred gas shells dropping into the
American lines.
Americans She'll Towns.
With the American Army west OF
MOntdidier, May 7-American guns
are Smelling MOntdidier, Cantigny,
Mesnil-St. Georges and other towns
and roads in this vicinity captured by
the Germans some time ago.
British Win Near MorIancourt.
London, May 1.-THE British took
200 prisoners in their local advance in
the region of MOrlancOurt (halfway
between the SOmme and Albert), Field
Marshal Haig announces.
The British line has been advanced
One-third of a mile on front of more
than a mile between the SOmme and
Ancre rivers west-southwest of Nor
lancOurt, says the official statement
from Field Marshal Haig's headquar-
terS.
British positions in the neighbOr-
hood of LOGON and the Lave, on the
southern leg of the LyS salient in Elan
ders, have been improved in local fight
ing.
U. S. Guns Wipe Out Foe.
With the American Army in France,
May GA successful artillery attack
and raid by the Americans in the Lune-
vile sector eliminated the first of the
German salients jutting uncOmfOrtably
into our lines on this front
Huns Use New Gas.
With the American Army on a
French Battle Front, May GA new
German liquified gas was projected
against the Picardy 'front.' where Amer
lean troops are fighting.
The gas is contained in glass bot
ties. On bursting they scatter fluid
from which heavy, white, transparent
fumes arise for five minutes.
No defamation was heard as the bot
ties were hurled. Apparently they were
thrown by a spring. The gas caused
nausea, sneezing and coughing, but did
not harm any Of the Americans.
Canadians Win Near Arras.
London, May S.-The Canadians
made a successful raid near Melville
Vitasse, southeast of Arras the war
Office reports. Three machine guns
and a number of prisoners were cap
tured.
German lines of communication and
troop asSemblage points are being
ceaseleSsly swept by French and Brit
ish heavy guns, both in Flanders and
In Picardy
While Won Hindenburg is preparing,
from all indications, renewal of his
mighty onslaught, his preliminary OPP
eratiOnS are being carried out under
difficulties.
This is indicated by both the French
and British reports, both of which tell
of artillery exchanges, nearly all along
the battle line in northern France. At
some points this big gun dueling, dis
patches say, reaches the proportions
of a pitched general engagement.
Reciprocal raiding activity in the Ar
raS region is looked on with interest
here as show both sides on their
toes at this Lint. Both the Cana
dams in their sOrtie near st. Vitasse,
and the Germans at BOyelles probably
were seeking to feel out their OppO-
nentS' strength and local dispositions
Some observers here consequently be-
heve that the enemy's next blow may
be delivered against the Canadians at
ArraS. and nOrthward along the Vimy
ridge.
Berlin Admits Loss.
Berlin, May S.-Australian cOntin-
gents in night attack between the
Ancre' and the Somme succeeded in
reaching the foremost German lines
south of the Corbie-Bray road, the war
office admitted in it's official statement
Allies Advance at Ypres.
British Headquarters in France, May
6.-Franco-British forces, in the course
of a successful operation between
Locre and DrancOurt, advanced their
positions on a thOusand-yard front to
an average depth Of 500 yards.
The British took 4S prisoners and
the French 80.
The enemy was driven from two or
three farms and the allies took some
high ground near KOutkOt.
British Repulse Attack.
London, May 6.-German troops at
tackled the new positions gained by the
british Friday night on the Flanders
battle front near Hinges. northwest of
IBethume. They were repulsed, the
WAR office announces. the British line