Arizona republican., 1918-03-21
WAR REVIEW
 OF THE DAY
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

The United States and her associates in the war have come into approxi- mately 100000 tons of much needed shipping with which to aid in prose- cutting the war against the Teutonic allies.
 Having been unsuccessful in per- fecting arrangements with The Meth erlands government for the taking over of Dutch vessels lying in American and allied ports, the United States and Great Britain have ordered all such vessels seized in accordance with in ternational law and put into service for the benefit of the allies.
 French Face Fiercest Fighting
 All along the western front the activ- ity of the fighting forces still has been held down to small infantry attacks and artillery duels, which on some sec- tors have been quite violent. To the French again has fallen the task of facing the fiercest infantry fighting. In Lorraine the Germans delivered numerous strong attacks, but all of them were put down with sanguinary losses to the attackers. At several other points the Germans also have endeavored to penetrate French posi- tions but everywhere have been beaten
 
 wounded.
 Get Own Medicine
 The American troops on the Foul sector have been giving the Germans, and effectively, a dose of their own favorite weapon - asphyxiating gas. Four different sectors of the Germans were gas-shelled and the Quiescent attitude of the enemy upon all of them afterward indicated that the gases had had the desired effect.
 On their part the Germans have adopted another new plan of warfare which the American troops on the sector attacked described as dirty work" This was the dropping from an airplane of large rubber balls filled with mustard gas. None of the American troops WAS injured in "the attack"
 Baker Has Narrow Escape Secretary 0f War Baker has had 8 narrow escape on the American front A German shell burst within 40 yards of his automobile but did no damage Although the snow is melting in the mountain regions of the Italian thea l ter, sufficient of it still lies on the ground to make impossible for the present commencement by either side of hostilities of great magnitude. l Even Moscow May Fall 1 In Russia the Germans and Austro. | Germans are still advancing. Petro- grad is being menaced by a force oi | Germans which is operating 150 mile: | south of the former capital, while 1T l the south Kharkov is being approached bv combined forces of the enemy. Ever 1 Moscow is reported to be in danger O an enveloping maneuver, and there i! l talk of again moving the capital.
 While special dispatches from Rus sia continue to assert that the Bolshe- yik leaders are hostile toward the in vaders no concrete evidence has beer | forthcoming to show that for the pres ent at least efforts are being made tt reorganize the, army and give combat
 Half Million Per Month
 Announcement has been made b. 1 the British first lord of the admiralt, 1 that the tonnage of shipping sunk dur ing the last twelve months aggregate, 1 six million. He denied that it hal 1 been $500, 900 tons, claimed by tn Germans.
 l During the last week eleven Britisl merchantmen of more than 1900 ton l each and six vessels under 1.600 ton were sunk by mines or submarines.