Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-06
Intense Fire by Allies Pre-.
vents Concentration Of
4 German Troops.
ALLIED POSITIONS
BEING STRENGTHENED
Several Attacks Made and Important
Positions Recovered = German Plan,
to Attack on Saturday and Sunday
Goes Az --~ Because Of Minor coun..
tor oMsnsives by British and
\ Frsneh-Americans Busy.

SVOVONoTy -0alIOdC SVbo sto uSNoo W
commons today that no peace offer
had been made recently by tho en-
eny.. He added:
"Thsrs 10 no representative Of
neutral nation III this country who
mas made tentative or informal
sug0ssIions OF peace negotiations"
The allied troops; in an attack
between Locre and Draneourt.
have advanced their lines 500
yards, gaining positions which
strengthen the important section
Of the front between seherpenbers
and Mont Rouge. German counter
attacks were repulssd with loss.
Berlin, reporting on the same
fighting, attempts to make out that
the attacks were made with large
forcs. II says they wefe repuIsed
and that the French lost 800
prisohsrs.
On the southern leg Of the Lys
salient, tho one the Ger
mans must attack II they wish to
connect this battlefield with the
one In picardy by wipins out the
II sA.... s.I;>nx <ha CArno ans Fnad0
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failed.
The artillery firs continues most
lntehss on both legs Of the Lys
s..i;..t .rd aeuth of the somms in
S:a..d.
a. osrm.nv has rot vet taken
* 4ha offsn.;xe r. the west, prob
.hlx arother effort AGAINST tho al
sI;ed .rmx = held in allowance to be
rade simultaneously with the her-
aIded Austro- -Hunaarian drive
.as;n.4 the lta,ians.
Eurther safeouard;no Of tho
.o.,tharn liant of the allied armies
;r. 81. ( !. saI;ent waa effected by
-. ar;t;sh i..t nioht. thru q local
oner.tion which rested IA tho i'm
nrovement of tho British position
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n \. an {he somme front north.
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