The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-21
Many Gains Are Made in Har.
assing Actions.
Germans Fail To Counter.
Attack Nearly Always.
FRENCH TAKE 400 PRISONERS
German Artillery Very Active
Near ArraS.
Air Activity Is Especially I'm.
pOrtant Now.

London May 21.-Fighting Is
speeding up on all fronts, according
to the night official reports. Success
full coups were made by allied troops
in Flanders, in Picardy, in southern
France, on the Italian front and in
Macedonia
French troops attacking east and
northeast of Locre, on the northern
portion of the Flanders front, gained
all their objectives last night on a
front of nearly two miles. Field Mar
shall Haig reported.
The British won a minor engage
ment east of Hebuterne. between Ar
ras and Albert.
French detachments penetrated the
German first and second lines north
west of Rheims, the French war Of
flee announced. Violent artillery
fighting was reported north and south
of the Avre.
Gain in Macedonia.
The Italian war office reported the
repulse of enemy patrols between the
Astico and the Adige and successful
sortie at Capsule.
On the Albanian front, in Mace
donia, French and Italian troops, in
| three days action, drove back the
|
Koritza, advancing their positions
| twelve and a half miles. This is the
most important advance on this front
| in more than a year.
The German war office claimed
| that the French assaults near Mont
KENNEL broke down with heavy
| losses"
The fighting on the Italian front,
according to the Austrian war office,
resulted favorably to the Austrians.
British Improve Positions.
London. May 21.-Northwest OF
Merville. in the Flanders salient, the
British improved their positions last
night the war office announces
Thirty prisoners and six machine
| guns were taken by the British IN this
| operation. A counter attack on the
new positions launched this morning
after a period of heavy Smelling was
crushed by the British artillery and
machine guns.
Delay in the launching OF the ex-
pected German offensive apparently is
giving the allied troops little concern
as they improve their positions here
| and there by strong local attacks.
Whether the Germans are prepared to
renew the heavy fighting is not yet
! clear, but strangely they do not react
against the Anglo-French nibblins tao
| tics.
French Capture 400 Huns.
On the Lys front between Mont
| KENNEL and the heights of Mont
Rouge and Scherpenberg. the French
have greatly improved their positions
in a forward movement along a front
of two miles. Not only were impor-
tant gains made but more than 40C
German prisoners were captured. The
| enemy has yet made no counter attack
there nor has he made any effort to
re-take the village of Ville-sur-Ancre
on the Somme front, captured in a gal
liant attack by the Australians Sunday
! Between the Somme and Arras the
British are harassing the Germans by
rushing their outposts and the French
have been successful in similar opera.
tions in the region OF Rheims in the
champagne. The German artillery
fire is especially violent on the sector
south of the Somme and north OF
Bethune, northwest OF Arras.
To Bethune has come the fate o.
so many other towns and cities O
northern France and it is now a mas
of ruins as a result of the German
bombardment.
Lots OF Action in Air.
There is no letup in the intens,
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