Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-05
TROUBLE BREAKS
AS ARMIES START
ATTACK ON ITALY
Austrian Emperor Dissolves
Parliament, and Will Pre-
vent New Session.
MORE ACTIVITY REPORTED *: =
ON AUSTRO.ITALlAN LINZ,
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German Offensive in Flanderss
Still Held Up by Allied r's r'Ts
Defense.
LOCAL ATTACK is REPULSED
-.
Fighting in Sommc Area Condnods
Almost Wholly to Artillery =.
Engagements. ~H
MORE ACTIVITY REPORTED -; =:
ON AUSTRO.ITALlAN LINZ,
LOCAL ATTACK is REPULsED-
Fighting in Sommc Area Conhnad
Almost Wholly to Artillery -
Engagements. -.tss,
tBy Associated Press.l

the most important items OF tho cuts
rent news, with a critical economic and
political situation officially conceded to-
be developing at home. just as hers
armies at the front are, apparentlF,4 4
about to be launched in new attack.
on Italy. -
The crisis in Vienna Is marked BY
the dismissal Of the Austrian Parlia-S
mcnt by the Emperor's orders, and thss!
declaration that forcible measures
would be taken to make a resumptf1nS
Of it's sessions impossible. A stata-.2
ment issued makes it clear that thet
government was embarrassed by the
divisions in the legislative body over
the grave food situation and the varI-s
Gus racial grievances in the Austrian :
body polite. and desired a free hand (
in the next few months. .~s
Such drastic action, taken In the face :.
OF the unrest throughout Austria-s
Hungary, as the result OF the wars
privations and the ever-recurring racial
differences, will cause The developments
OF the situation in the dual ,monarcHS
to be followed with the keenest inI2
sterest. s3$
Meanwhile, Vienna dispatches have
reported Emperor Charles leavinE,~fqr$
the front. and have announced Erl4tly&
increased activity along the AustrosI
Italian lines. where renewal OF the :
Teutonic offensive has long been
threatened. The Rome official st6ta-c
ment docs not give a like picture or
the front-line activities, but records in.
tensive aerial operations, with the <
entente airmen evidently having tneS
better or the encounters and bringing
down fourteen enemy machines. 49,
The German offensive in Flanders.,
has been held up now for virtually .
nve days since the enemy waves last,
dashed against the rock-ribbed defcnsS
or the British and French carly IaSFs
week. and the Ypres line stood firm
under the attack. General Won Arnim
evidently has been forced into this ine :
activity by the severity of his losses;
and the time necessary to marshal new
forces for a fresh blow. -s~r
GERMANS HAVE MORE
FRESH TROOPS IN RESERVE.
Concededly. however the enemy has
tresh troops for a thrust OF even !
greater power. il he thinks it advisable
10 employ them here. and there haYa
peen indications for the last day or
Two that he was preparing to do so.
one such hint OF an impending thrust
developed Saturday morning. when the
German artillery began violently to-
pound the Franco Brit.sG line from,
Locre to the south OF Ypres. where
MS main effort OF April % was made
me homoardment was not speedily fol-
lowed up by an attack, however. an /,
was the case last Monday. 81
FRENCH HAVE SUCCEsSFUI. -
OPERATION IN LOCRE REcIa.e
Meahwhiie' there has been strength
ening OF the allied defense at importansl
po'h.S along hoth the northern and5.
southern sides OF the Lys salient. T6.
rreneh nave thus operated successfully
IN the Locre region. which is one ofi
'he main objective points OF the GeFa :
mans as an approach to Mont Ronre-i
'"u inc British on Friday nighfi
S.'ens'hehed their lines in the vicinity
OF Hinges. northwest OF Bethuns .S,,s
me Somme front has been threatens.
ING TO break out into its former furi-
GUS activity for several days past, but
asioe from the recent thrust by tina
frehch. which gained them commanding. u
ground IN the Avre sector. southeast OF
Amiens, and similar operations by the :
-'''''S' otpuHu leTS-bTctOnneuX, 1Uzf.
10 the north, the lighting has been left.
Almost entirely to the artillery. Tho
oiE guns are still booming threatens
ingly in the Avre region and elsewhere
around the great Montdidier salient,
however. ~
In Palestine aie British have again
met and defeated the Turks In engage
ments in the vicinity OF the River Jos,s1
dan. Attacks by the Ottoman troops
or two successive days were beaten of.
with heavy losses to the enemy, and
In the lighting the British took more
than 300 prisoners. Dispatches from
Paris announce that another Of the
German long-range guns engaSed-@in
bombarding the French capital has
been put out Of action through a direct
hit by the French artillery. s-1
GERMAN REPORT SAYS S@ss.1