The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-05-24
MORE AMERICANS
OPPOSING TEUTs
FIFTH POSITION IN FRONT BAT
TIE LINE WILL BE TAKEN
OVER BY sAMMiEs.
HUNS GETTING UP STEAM
Men and Guns Being Brought up for
Another Big Push.-Next Attack
Expected to Be Fully as vio-
lent as One Just Stopped.
(War Review for May 1s)

American troops are awaiting the
time when they will be thrown into bat
tie on an entirely new part of the BAT
tlefield in France The announcement
that the Stars and Stripes are waving
with the British Union Jack and the
French Tri-color on this battlefield
said that the Americans We're com
: plotting their training in the area occu-
pied by the troops which are blocking
the path of the Germans to the channel
ports which may indicate that some
where along the Zine from Merville
to Ypres is the point where General
Pershing's men will once more strike
the Germans.
This is the fifth section of the front
where Americans have been located
The others are: East of -Luneville,
and on the heights of the Mouse, and
in the Montdidier sector of the
Picardy battle area.
How many Americans are behind
the British front, when they arrived,
end the part of the United States
y
known. 1t is probable that they are
not to be used as a separate unit but
will be brigaded with the British in
meeting the next stroke of the Ger
mans in the northern battlefield. Dur
ing the last day, the activity of the
enemy has been most pronounced at
the tips of the salients driven into
the allied lines in the Ypres and
Sonme fronts. There was notable
increase in the German artillery fire
on the Lys front in front of Haze
hrouck, while Hailles, east of Amiens,
has again been deluged with shells
from the German cannon. At this
point the French have made notable
advances of late and at no time since
the German wedge ceased to move,
early in April, has this region been
quiet.
Hun Aviators Killed.
The perfect weather that has pre-
vailed for several days over the en-
tire western front has led to an I'M
usual number of battles between
aerial squadrons. In these combats
the enemy seems to have suffered
heavily and while the allies have not
escaped unscathed. they appear to |
have maintained their mastery of the |
air. Eddie Rickenbacker, the former |
automobile race driver, now with the
American flying forces on the Toul |
front, has added another German ma
chine to his record.
All along the front in France the
tension under which the men are work
ing has been reflected by the large |
number of trench raiding forays. No
where, however. has there been con-
flict which might be considered more
than a skirmish.
There have been no further reports
from Rome or Vienna relative to OPP
erations on the Italian front, where
the Italians had made determined at
tacks on Austrian positions east Of the
Brenta.
New Attack Imminent.
A summary of the military situation
on the western front given out by the
British general staff, states that an
other terrific attack by the Germans
is imminent. 1t is indicated that the
British expect the new attack to be on
as great scale as that of March q ,
when the fighting was begun over a
front of so miles. The halt in the
German assault has given the Teutons
a chance to reform their shattered
divisions, it is admitted but it also
has allowed the allies to strengthen
heir lines.
The arrival of American troops
which are coming to the battlefield in
arge numbers is another factor in IA :,
Tor of the entente allies, it is pointed
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