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holes. Hot food lis carried UP to them
under shell fire.
/ ocaL Enemy Attack.

IA unQef smell HrS.
/ Local Enemy Attack.
/ LONDON, May 1.-"Local enemy a.
tack on one of our posts in the neign
borhood Of st Julien (three mile
northeast OF Ypres) yesterday was re
pulsed bylmachine guns, Field Mar
shall Haig reported today
Enemy posts in the Meteren sec
tor were raided last night and prison
! ers taken.
THE French improved their posi-
lions around Locre last night by
successful minor enterprise"
Unable TO Push Ahead.
[By VIM. Philip Simms, United Press
Staff Correspondent
| WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FLANDERS, May staggered by
the allied blow before Ypres unday,
General Won Armin spared for time
yesterday and last night, utterly un-
fable to push on.
Save for considerable Smelling In
the back areas from Ypres westward
toward Hazebrouck, and except for
small raids and outpost clashes, the
last twenty-fo,1r hours have been con-
spicuously calm.
The Germans doubtlessly will try
again to turn the nest Of hills south
west of Ypres, but Sundays jolt COM
PEELED a shiftof the enemy divisions.
This shift will require hours and
perhaps days of preparation, de-
pending on the severity Of the maui
ing they received Sunday.
/ heard upon unimpeachable author
ity that babies have been found IN the
firing line among the dead.
When the British re-took Neuve-
Eglise, they found two babies IN
the German trenches. They were
taken to safety below ground The
British were unabel to hold the she'll
deluged position and the babies were
taken with them when the Tommles
fell back. They are now doing well
in hospital, where they are the pets
of the nurses.
In a part of the Flanders line two
British artillery observers discovered
a child which had been separated from
its parents. They placed the infant
between them in hay loft, their
bodies keeping it warm. From here
they watched the Germans move
ments.
Shrapnel burst above the barn. kill
ing both men. The baby was found
asleep between the two corpses. 1t is
now in a British hospital sound and
healthy.
KAISER DID NOT APPROVE.
PARIS, May If the allies hold,
Germany Is beaten" declared a Span
ish statesman, returning from Ger
many, who was intervied at the Span
ish frontier today, by Andre Giarner,
Paris correspondent OF the Exchange
Telegraph company.
"The kaiser did not approve the
present offensive" said the Span
lard, "but Hindenburg, Ludendorff
and the crown prince said It would
turn the tide, although the losses
would be enormous.
"The offensive had three detectives
first, the capture Of Amiens; sec
ond, the destruction Of Paris, and
third, the separation Of the French
and British armies, with the capture
Of Calais. All this was to be ae-
before May day.
"The German feeling at the failure |
thus far, together with the enormous
losses, Is making the kaiser stronger
and Iessening the power Of linden
burg, Ludendorff and the crown
prince.
''if the German offensive Is un-
successful by May IS, it means the /
return to power Of Won Bueiow and
the launching Of new peace Of
Fensive which may be acceptable to
both Sides"
GIarner believes the Spanish states
nan is sympathetic toward Germany.