The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1918-07-06
CBy The Associated Press.)

NDJ i ne ASSOCldltu IltSS.I
The British front east of Amiens,
on each side of the Avre and along
the Somme river, seems to be the
storm center of the battlefront in
France Here the Australians, as
sisted by American detachments
surged forward on July and drove
the Germans out or the village of
Hamel and the Vaire and Hamei
woods, to the south, at the same time
launching a secondary attack on the
German positions north of the
Somme. Since that time the lines
before Ameins have been very active.
The Germans have been repulsed
in an attempt TO retake the village
of Hamel and the wooded positions
of the Australians further south The
British official report says that the
enemy was stopped easily, but the
Germans claim to have checked the
British forces east of Hamel and to
have thrown them back to their orig =
inal lines at Villers- -Bretonneux.
With the exception of aerial com
hats, the American front has been
calm.
The German official statement tells
of British attacks in the Ypres re
gion, adding that these assaults were
repulsed. Heavy artillery fire in this
neighborhood is reported from Lon
don
In the meantime the French have
been content to hold and consolidate
their new positions near Moulin Sous
1outvent and Autreches, northwest
of scissors, where in two recent
French attacks. the Germans suffered
severe casualties and lost many
prisoners The French war office
says that during the past day there
has been heavy artillery firing in the
neighborhood of Cutry and Montgo-
bert, which is on the front southwest
Of Scissors, where the French won
ground by dashing attack last week.
Italian forces operating near the
mouth Of the Piave have continued
to make progress in recent fighting
and have taken more than 400 pris-
oners, as well as a battery of cannon
and many machine guns. In the
mouatan region, the Italians have
extended their lines northeast of
Monte Craps and have repulsed
desperate counter attacks by the
Austrians against positions taken
from the en1Hy in the Italian drives
week ago.
Stockholm reports that Finland is
expected TO declare war on the en-
tente allies. This is probably the re
SUIT Of German pressure incident to
The landing of allied forces at Kols
on the Thurman coast. 1t has been
reported that German and Finnish
troops are pushing northward toward
the port of Kola to seize vast stores
transported there before Russia s
collapse as a factor in the war.
Two rumors of internal dissensior
have become current. One is to the
effect that the death fMohammeC
V. sultan of Turkey. was not due tC
natural causes. but the result of {
revolt in that country. The othel
comes from South Africa, where it Ii
reported considerable unrest exists
and where strong measures are beins
taken to cope with the situation.
Premier b tha, of the union o
South Africa, tys the trouble ma.
be attributed to enemy agencie!
which are sail to be working anon;
the natives. The premier has APP
pealed to the people to guard agains
intrigue and TO assist in curbin;
those who are sowing dscord.
The Czecho- Slovak troops operat
ing in eastern Siberia are reporte'
to have won a victory over the Bol
sheviki forces which have been hold
ing Irkutsk Reports from Londol
say that the BolsheviH army. whicl
includes a great many German an
Austrian prisoners of war, has bee
driven out of the region of lrkuts
and into the country east Of LAX
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