Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-06
ALLIED SPIRIT
HIGH AS GERMAN
PLANS HIT SNAG
Entente Realizes Every Day
Brings More Americans
to Battle Line
HUNS ARE DISCOURAGED
Prussian Commanders Work
Desperately For New
Offensive
BY .Associdtcd Press

With the British Army i'm France,
Sunday, May 5.-Luck seems to be
going against the Germans along
the crucial northern battlefront.
Sunday still found the Prussian
commanders working desperately
to whip their organizations into
shape for a renewal of the delayed
offensive.
The allied artillery has been main
tanning an incessant bombardment
of enemy territory and Friday night
before the projected GerI' an attack
the French and British gunners
played havoc with the German prep
arations. The allied troops also have
been successfully carrying out local
operations.
Hun Assault Repulsed
Yesterday the allies occupied a
large number of important positions
at various points along the front of
four thousand yards west of Kem-
mel The British also made an ad-
vance of 500 yards along the front
of 1000 yards northwest of LOGON.
This morning the Germans tried to
kregain some of these positions but
were repulsed. An enemy attack yes
terday morning in the LOGON area
under cover of heavy barrage like
wise was smashed.
On the southern battlefront the
British last night near Sally LIE Sec
advanced their line in a minor oper-
alton without casualties. The Ger
man prisoners taken in all these To-
cal engagements maize a consider
able total.
The spirit of the allied troops re-
mains at the highest pitch. They
know that every days delay is I'm it.
self a victory for them. Each twen-
ty-fouf hours that slips by makes
America loom larger on the horizon
and brings the much needed over
seas troops nearer the battle lines.
Complain at Home
Interesting comments by German
kcivilians have been furnished from
an enemy mail bag captured by the
British before it was delivered to
the soldiers along a section of the
Flanders front.
One letter said:
peace does not seem to be COM
ing along as we fondly hoped. All
this in the west is too wicked for
anything. Four years of it now and
no sign of the end. We hope every
day it will come to n decision and
! that the British will be driven into
the North sea, but they stand firm
This letter was from Berlin and
dated April 25.
Tanks Unwieldy
Further details now are available
from various sources regarding the
new German tanks, several of which
made such poor showing at Villers-
BretonneauX on April "a The ma
chine weighs forty-five tons and is
so unwieldy it is unable to negotiate
| broad trenches and cannot move
, over ground torn heavily by shells.
The tank is pointed at both ends. 1t
| is approximately twenty-three feet
long, nine and oneshalf feet wide
and eleven feet high. The armor
| is of poor quality of steel and varies
in thickness up to thirty mili-
meters.
The armament consists of q 2,2-
| inch gun forward which fires high
explosives and case shot six heavy
machine guns. two on each side and
two in the rear. 1t is equipped with
two 100-horsepower four-cylindef
poppet valve engines with an elec.
/ trio starter and one man can con-
troll and drive it easily. Its top speed
on good ground is ten miles an hour.
A crew of nineteen is carried. con-
sisting of one officer, three gunners
| for the forward gun, two drivers,
two mechanics, ten machine gunners
and one signal man.