Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-20
GREAT OFFENSIVE
. MAY Be RESUMED
ALMOST ANY DAY
British Capture Village of
Ville-Sur-Ancre, in
Amiens Sector.
HUNS REACH BJORKO ISLAND,
80 MILES FROM PETROGRAD
Russian Dispatches Indicate Con-
siderable Activity in Trans s.
caucasia and Persia. ss
FOURTEEN KILLED AT COLOGNE
French Bring Down Thirty.Eight
Enemy Machines in Twenty
Four Hours. ~
FOURTEEN KILLED AT COLOGNE
(By Associated Press.1

Hostile aircraft crossed the coasts
Of Kent and Essex shortly after ii
o'clock Sunday evening and proceeded
toward London. At midnight the raid
was still in progress.
Four enemy airplanes were brought
down in last nights raid over Eastern
England, says an official communica-
communication says:
Reports show that four of the en-
cmy airplanes which raidcd London
and the southeast last night have been
brought down.
The raid appears to have been on a
large scale. considerable numbersof
bombs were dropped.
NO details OF casualties or damage
are yct available"
Although the Germans in, Flanders
and RlsaEdX are kespinE zip -ipressap.lx.
thelrSprepafatiohs for 4 RI sTh4p tj0nsoT
their spring drive. there Is as yet mo
indication that an attack. on a large
scale is immediately imminent.
For scveral.swecks past the enemy
mas been engagedsassiduously in bring
ing up guns and supplies lofi all kinds
units. which the American. British and
French guns cut to pieces as he tried
at various points to break the allied
line, and the feeling now Is that the
work is fairly we'll done and that any
DAY may witness and commencement OF
another great offensive on the western
front AS ready rs is the enemy for
the battle, stand the allied armies AT
SO tar as men and gun power are con.
cerned. and confident that no ADVANTAGE
VIII be gained over them cxcept as
has been usual by the payment Of an
awful price in men fed to the guns.
Large numbers OF Americans daily are
being brought to the front ready for
immediate service or are re-enforcins
the units under intensive training i'm.
mediately behind the battle line. +,
Meanwhile the big guns continue to
roar In mighty duels on various sec
Tors and here and there small bands
OF infantry constantly are leaving their
trenches in raids or small attacks with
the OBJECT OF capturing pieces OF ter.
TAIN winch may be OF strategic value
when the big fight begins.
The latest of these sn,I e.i
where DIT OF ground was required,
mas been successfully carried ont Nv
the British in the capture of the "a,
'ase OF Nllle-sur-Ancre, on the Amienn
sector. Not only was the nosi,ian
taken. but 500 prisoners and twenty
machine guns fell into the hands n
Marshal Haig's troops. whose own CAS-
uaities were slight In raidIng onara.
ions northwest OF Albert and n.asr
namel the British also were en.hioa
TO take additional prisoners and no
chine guns. ''
"EhMANS APPARENTLY
AIM TO CAPTURE PETRoGRAD
Ihat the Germans have the cantnra
OF Petrosrad in prospect seems ev,-
dent from their latest operations: n
inc Gulf OF Finland. Here tbev bsva
taken the Island OF Bjorko. which fia.
only thirty miles northwest NJ tha
Russian capital S
DisPatches from Russia show that
again there is considerable act,v,tv l.
lranscaucasia and in Persia. At Rakn
on the western shore of the 1.as,ion
sea- In Transcaucasia. the Mussulmars
and Boishevikl have fought a battle,n
winch according to Moscow news
papers. 1000 persons were killed and
5000 wounded. while in Persia tbe
turks have occupied severa, towns
south OF Lake Urumia. The onera-
lions In Persia may indicate thar !,
Is the purpose OF the Ottoman forc.a
to harass the British lines Of cow
along the Tigris River.
Advices from Amsterdam say that
fourteen persons were killed and
large number injured In the bombing
raid carried out by allied aviators on
Cologne last Saturday.