The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-05-14
The ADVERTISERS SEMIwEEKLY
The Week In the War

- their efforts ON the western front becauS
their positions arc otherwise untenable, as NAM
military experts believe, and because the holding
back OF counter offensive by the Allies keep
their plans in the dark and perforce, keeps Vol
Hindcnburg busy or they believe that they ar,
winning. Onlv one OF these two reasons sufice
TO- explain the course which the enemy is pur
Suing, p, ,iu
A thrust here today, another thrust in another
direction tomorrow, each in turn parried by thu
Allies, has been the story of the fighting on thu
Western front for the past week 1t is difficult tc
see that the enemy has accomplished anything
Positions are but little changed and such changes
as have occurred appear to be i'll the nature of'im
provement in the positions OF the Allies.
Beyond bombardments which appeared to be il
preparation for new otfensives there was LITTLE
enemy activity ON Monday. The Allied artillery
fire in reply was So we'll directed that no strong
offensive infantry movements followed the Ger
man barrage On Tuesday there was less activity
and heavy rain was falling over a great part o
the front.
On W edncsdav came the effort to turn the FAM
OF the British to the southwest Of Ypres. At som'
points this drive able to penetrate the iron
lines but later in the week those positions wer,
generally recovered Thursday was marked by
continuance of this effort but all Of their attempts
were smashed by the Niles. AT only one poin
was the thrust in any way successful and there thu
success was slight Meantime the British anc
French conducted raids upon the enemy and mad
attacks along restricted fronts which appear t.
have been generally attended by considerable
degree of success
On Friday the attempted Hun offensive com
pletely lost its momentum and some ground wa
given back to the Allies. On Saturday, as on Fri
day, most of the engagements were OF local ma
ture.
Early in the week there seemed to be ndca
tons that the expected AustrO- German offensive
against the Italian front was about to be launched
Those expectations have not been realized. The
emperor of the Dual Empire and his military lead
ers had gone to the 'front.' there were heavy bonn
bardments reported but since then no general en-
gagement has been reported from that theater o.
war. y ...,..s -. . ..
In the reports there are to be seen indication:
that the United States part in the fighting !:
steadily growing in Importance but there is moth
ing to indicate that the entire overseas force is
now in the firing line and there is much to indi
cate that large numbers of them are being retain
cd in reserve force that will be used when Genera
Foch is ready to start the Allies offensive
There is no doubt that the Teutons are still
taking much satisfaction and securing a consider
able qualification over their successes in peace
making with the BoshevSt Russians, with the
'kraine Finland and Rumania and are taking full
advantage of what they have secured there anc
# what they have doneNo Belgium and to the par
of France and that part of Italy which they oc
cupy TO intmdate the smaller neutral nations
especially Holland. Hardly have the Dutch, with
reluctance, yielded great part of their neutrality
than vet other demands for sacrifices are made up
On them and they asked to supply their more
powerful neighbor with food stuffS The Teutor
idea Of neutrality seems to be friendship, supplies
and sustenanCe from the weaker nations.
pom Russia. as we'll other demands have beer
made which, if granted, would make that country
l'tte more than German Colony And Russis
seems to be in position to resist These course!
merely go to show to the world what would be the
course that victorious Germany would pursue
with the rest OF the world after forcing upon then
"made in Germany" peace.
against the United States. France Britain ant
Italy, there has been nothing to lend the enemy
any comfort from the weeks fighting. In thu
bullying of countries which grovcl before thu
clUven hoOf or are all but their knees Prussian
ism is doing much better, according to Prussiar
ideas and ideals.