Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-02-06
BombardmentS by Both Sides
and Sharp Patrol ThruStS
Mark Military Activities
Along Front Lines,
AMERICAN GUNNERS
F0RESTALL SURPRISE
Germans, Preparing to Come
Over the Top, Stopped by
Sitting Fire From Artillery
British Make Raids,
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From the North sea to the Swiss
frontier, the military activity daily
seems to be growing in intensity, and
II may be fair to assume that in the
not distant future some of the big
battles that have been forecast will
break @
The American, British and French
armies have been taking whacks at
the German line, either by fairly
strong patrol attacks or by lombard
ments, while, in turn, the Teutons
have been giving considerable atten-
ton on various sectors of their ene-
mics. s
Njpped Attack in Bud.
From the American viewpoint an
other successful maneuver by the
Americans on their sector of the front
is of the greatest interest. AS on last
Saturday. the Americans again have
nipped in the bud an impending sur
prise attack on their trenches and
taught the Germans a salutary lesson
with their artillery, In the German
trenches the Teutons were awaiting
the word to go over the top for an at
tack, when the Americans opened a
heavy fire on the positions. So. 3
Heavy casualties are believed TO
have been inflicted on the Teutons
and considerable damage was done by
the 75's on the German trenches, due
to the accuracy of the American gun
ncrs.
fmcTirln Fire Deadly. ssa,
The Germans have not vet been
able to reoccupy the trenches and
dugouts battered by the American
fire saturday evening and have been
forced to build another line Of trench
es at that particular point
Next in importance to the opera
tons on the American front have been
attacks by the Germans against the,
French in the Aisne region and north
of Verdun, near Beaumont The
French war office asserts that the
attacks north Of the Aisne were re-
pulsed, but the German war office
says that south of Beaucourt. Baden
storniing troops pushed far into the
French front. inflicted heavy casual
ties and returned to their own lines
with prisoners.
British Thurst Effective.
The British have carried out sue
cessful raids against the Teutons
southwest of Armentieres and in the
vicinity of the Ypres-Staden railway.
where many of the enemy we're killed
and others captured.
Intensive air fighting has been 20
ing on between the French and the
Germans in France and between the
Italian and British airmen and the
Germans in the Italian theater. Sum
day thirteen enemy planes were
downed by the French far inside the
German lines, while an equal number
were shot down by British and Itai-
ian airmen. ti,f
In Germany, according to the latest
adVices, the strike situation has about
died out, although discomfort Is said
still to exist This feeling has ex-
tended even to the German troops in
Flanders, who are asserted to have
melted Belgian workmen to strike. :
Conferences In Berlin.
Seeming evidence that the peace ne.
so'ubiOiio at DItSl-IIlONSk are ended
for the moment, or that they are pro-
ceedng without the attendance OF
some of the chief delegates OF the
Teutonic allies, is the fact that con.
ferences took place in Berlin Monday
between the German emperor and
crown prince and the Bulgarian pre-
mier, Count Czernin, the Al,stro- Hun
garian foreign minister and the Tur4
klsh grand vizier. That knotty ques-
tons were to be solved was also in
dicated BY the fact that after the con-
ferences the emperor presided over
a crown council.
Turco-Tartar forces in southern
Russia now are in operation against
the Bolsheviki. They have captured
the town of Yalta, in the Crimea and
now are fighting with the red guards,
soldiers and sailors in an endeavor to
take Sebastopol, Russias big naval
Ease on the Black sea
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