Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-05
TWO ALLIED SUCCESSES
CBy the Associated Press.)

By a surprise attack on the German lines, planned especially as a celebra- tion or American Independence day, Australian troops took the village oI Hamel, east of Aimes, occupied Naire and Hamel woods, south of the village and captured more than 15OO prison CTS. The Australians advanced under the cover of a smoke barrage and were led by tanks in the breaking of the enemy's line over front of more than four miles. The attack penetrated mile and a half into the German posi- tions.
 The British war office has an nounced American participation. This is the first time they have appeared in this part of the line.
 The French struck savagely, cutting the enemy ranks near Aurreches south of Moulin-Sous-Tout where OF Tuesday night they won local sue l cess and captured prisoners. Here ] the Germans lost 1066 prisoners.
 In both operations the allies have | improved their positions by gaining rather high ground which can be read | fly defended.
  i French and Americans were attack | ing the Italians continued to advance | in the area near the mouth of the Piave. Scattered machine gun en- i placements have been cleaned out, while light boats from the Italian navy have entered the lagoons on the lett flank of the Austrian armies and glv- en valuable assistance to the land forces. The Italians also have won ground in the San Lorenzo valley, east of the Brenta river.
 Announcement is made that Moham- med V, sultan of Turkey, died We'd nesday night. The heir to the throne is Yusseff Izzeduno, cousin of the de ceased sultan and a son of the late Sultan Abdul AZiZ.
 Fighting between the German soviet forces and the peasantry is reported from Yekaterinburg, the city in east ern Russia where the main line of the trans-Siberian railroad is joined by the branches of the road running to north and south Russia. It was reported recently that the Czecho-Slovak troops were in control of Yekaterinburg and it is said that an army of 100000 peas ants, well armed, has been formed there.
 German attempts to drive American forces from thelr positions at Vaux west of Chateau Thierry seem to have failed utterly. There have been nc further reports of desperate German efforts to regain the line from which they were unceremOniously busted by the Americans Tuesday night. :. In all the allied countries and theii |. colonies the American Independenc; day was observed in an unprecedelt
 eu manner. In London and the large cities of England there were specla exercises. Even the small towns join !. ed in honoring the United States; il
 France. the people of Paris and . great many other cities entered lntC the observance of the day with theii proverbial enthusiasm and elaborate
 programs were carried out. In Italy the smaller cities vied with their larg
 CT cities in the celebration of the day
 South American nations, three O
 which had declared the day a nationa holiday, participated in what was vii tually a world wide demonstration II
 commemoration of American inde
 pendence.
 Along the American sectors of tn , battle line in France the day was oh served by the boys in khaki, who wer
 called upon to perform only work tha was absolutely necessary. The Ger
 mans, who had been expected to seiz
 upon the Fourth of July as dramati setting for an attack against som