' 44 THE SUN, SATURDAY, 'APRIL 6, 1918.

Oermana pivoted out Albert sador, with the request that It be trans- th from through press to the women and swung their front weitward from 1 , ENEMY HOPE VAIN, mitted the rail- Through of the United States: Dernancourt until It reached the Where the German Are Trying to Break Cross way, on which th defenders were mak- "As president of the British Bed ne wew .ixmas ing society I wish to send to the women of i 470 a Knllant stand. our great ally, United States of tliCJii y those SAYS KING GEORGE tho Both Attacks and America, a message of greeting upon the Buy-Bu- y LIBERTY BONDS delivered helow the Homme yesterday entry Into appear to have been merely forerunner first anniversary of America's tho war. It Is my earnest prayer that of what may be termed the second phaae may .Bye-By- e LIBERTY will God In Ills merciful providence or of thn offensive, when the Uermana British Monarch Wires Presi- guide guard our righteous cause." strike another great blow with vast and Co.. Bond , forces against some portion of the long dent Thanks for the Aid Sold at the Franklin Simon it Booth battle front. The engagement south of the Somme of America. ENEMYCASUALTIES yesterday, which resulted In the British AVESNES IPCOMTE being pushed back to their defences east O of wits hard fought. DENIER O pfv I)NDOr. April 5. Klnir Oeorge has PLACED AT morning; Germans 500,000 Karly yesterday the J) X-UT- sent greetings to President Wilson on began a tremendous bombardment of the Jr rr the occasion of the anniversary' of the allied lines south of tho Homme and then entry of the United States Into tho war Give Up Or moved forward for the attack. The as follow: Wounded Allies Brought to fighting continued throughout most of (( anniversary enemy Mr BOYEti.es On the occasion of the the day, the main weight of the X HUMBERCOURT ' CROI3ILLES of the momentous decision of the Paris Say They Sever Saw thrust belna-- aaalnit the French on the m United States to enter Into this war right of the British. No less than four for the safeguarding of International Such Carnage. teen divisions were employed In In! German Give right and Justice, I dclre to convey to this drive between the Somme and Mont-dldle- r, MOYfNNfVllljy V 11 yon. you O Mr. President, and through car- and three of these were famous MONCHV J to thn American people, the friendly PjUiis, April 6. The accounts of guard units, namely, the First Guards GROUCHES o M greetings riage 'In the German ranks which has ' U of the entire British tuition. by fire of Allies, only patriotism thai counts Division, commanded by Prince Bltel ' AYETTE UtaMICOOgo At this critical hour, when our ene- been wrought the the Fried rich, the Guards of Essati and the jxZZ mies ate sparing no sacrifice and are as given In the official communications THE does not Fourth Guards. FQtfMHS countln? to arhlev victory, the and by correspondents at the front, are patriotism that The last named division was opposite HEBoSS,,, AMUTRT Trench and Kigllsli troops startd moro than confirmed by stories of tho America the British on the south bank of the united as never before In their heroio wounded in French hospitals. count the cost. If you want Homme. Notwithstanding the great ad- resistance to these; endeavors. They "We cut down the Germans as a vantage which the enemy nad In num- are buoyed up with the thought that harvester cuts down wheat," said a win war you must support her. y. this L.as-slgn- to bers, the British flung off a succession " the great democracy of th West, wounded Lieutenant back from of heavy attacko and held their own, In tlte same spirit and with the same "We went on cutting ihem down you believe America will win this with the exception of the sector east objects as their own, Is putting forth until we emptied our cartridge boxes. If of Vlllers-Bretonneu- Here they were BfT Then our dragoons, on their mounts, 1 fj.'BEAUCOURT every effort to throw Its supreme force war, you must back up your judgment. forced back slightly, but still retained 4r Into the struggle, which will once for came right up to the firing line and tba town. all decide the destinies of the free na- brought us more cartridges." give up or give in! The Germans have made a formidable tions of the earth. A corporal, horribly burned by gas, You must either effort, probably aimed at getting astride The gallant deeds of Americans 'on but not at all downcast, said: "Yes, they of the Amlens-Parl- s railway, says Beu-ter- a land and sea have already Indicated fixed me up this way, but that docs not correspondent at British headquar- to the enemy that hope Is vain. matter. I nm revenged. It is almost In- BUY THE NEW ters In France. Thanks to the stubborn Kvery day that passes, as American credible the way they fell In groups. In resistance, the only success attained was troops pour In ever Increasing num- companies. I shall survive my burns, the driving of a salient of about 7,000 bers Into Prance, diminishes the but the thousands and thousands of LIBERTY BONDS yards wide to an extreme depth of 2,000 chances of his success. Germans whom I saw fall never will be yards. The American people may rest as- seen again." Among the fourteen German divisions Capt. Vldat of the British Army Medi- Subscriptions received at our Liberty sured that the British Empire, now hospital believed to have been engaged were by nearly four years of war, will cal Corps said after visiting a some of the best corps, Including the tried In which were men who had tten Bond Booth on the Main Floor by cheerfully make yet further sacrifices. Olso First Prussian Guard, commanded The thought that the United States, brought In from the front that the Prince Eltel Frledrlch, and two other your leadership, us wounded with whom he talked were guard divisions. under are with fully convinced the German losses had pressure I NgKr heart and soul emboldens its In the amounted to 500,000. Of all tho great German o ,,. Attack Ceatres oa C'orble. RenRg-r- ItwMTA-pW- for dompierre determination, with God's help, finally numbers of wounded he had seen during I and wesy. - 0- - enemy After a heavy bombardment of the to destroy the design of the the war, he added, those now coming British lines from a great concentration and to reestablish on the earth the back from the front were In the highest artillery enemy infan- rule of right and Justice. spirits. They were almost Joyful, not- of bis mobile the Oeokqc, It. I. try atacked about 7 o'clock yesterday withstanding their wounds, he said, be- morning. The usual principle of at- cause of their faith In the approach of tacking In dense waves was followed by QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S GREETING decisive victor and because they had th Germans. The assault was over a seen that for all the damage done by FIFTH AVENUE wide front and appears to have had for Washington, April 5. Queen Alex- the Germans to the Allies a vastly Its object a converging movement on the andra ha sent th following menage to greater toll had been paid by the town of Corbie, at the confluence of the the Earl of Reading, the British Ambaa. mans. omme and1 the Ancre, about three and a half miles west of the battle front. Along a greater part' of the front the Germans were held and lost very heavily through machine gun and rifle fire, the despatch continues. But In the neigh- - p01""" borhood of Hamel a little salient In the SJMJJSJSSJMJSJM0JJSJSS t British line was straightened out un- gSL der heavy pressure by the enemy. The Ant counter attack delivered by the British troops wan not In sufficient MAIlLqCi5 I UNOCRGefWAAN ATTACK! t HAfTTENCOURT weight to restore tho position. nA Among the German units fighting on the Somme the famous Brandenburg Sk B Corps , has been Identified. Although the SBn'XsSkriH enemy haa used all the artillery he could GUErAnv ) CRESS concentrate, his fire has not been par- M AINVAL P'y'"ffr ticularly heavy as bombardments go nowadays. He has trusted mainly to a preponderance of numbers. Kaeasy Sorely Harass. Prisoners report that owing to bad communications and the harassing fire f tho British guns the Germans are sJ&rZ BOTES 1 ARTILLERY FIGTnTfToiNI experiencing great difficulty in bring- MESNiL ",-- ' Jtmis secroR became intense.I Q .. . ing lip heavy artillery and necessary o aaamunltlon. "Our difficulties and those of the en- emy are fairly obvious." says the Stand' arti "We are suffering from a very heavy blow dealt to Gen. Gough's army. Th enemy, on his side, find that the ANNOUNCEMENT salient created through that local sue-o- ss 1 Is too narrow for his purpose. V' 0 A . BIERtMONT J "A good many people no doubt ex- perienced a certain disappointment that no great reaction on the part of the Al- lies followed the exhaustion of the Ger- man effort. It should be remembered failed to penetrate the Allies' lines in their Dernancourt, a few miles south of Albert. The Ger- that the battle Is only In Its earliest JJAVING requested put disposal of new drive Thursday, the Germans' shifted their at- mans won a footing just below Albert, but were Government has that we at the stage, and nothing would please the ejected by a prompt counter attack. The fighting on OUR enemy commanders better than a prema- tacks a little further north and tried again to open War Department our entire output of the "makings" tura employment of the reserves." the British section, however, extended over a front the way to Amiens. The French resisted them suc- of about seventeen miles, extending to Moyennevtlle, "BULL" DURHAM tobacco. OFFICIAL V&RSIONS cessfully everywhere except at Castel, a little south- a short distance below Arras, and was particularly west of Moreuil. The Germans captured that village. severe in the section just south ot Bucquoy. in all And we have complied fully, gladly. For whatever the Gov- OF PICARDY FIGHTING The British, who had to bear the brunt of the on- this district no material gain was made by the v slaught yesterday, gave up only the little village of ernment wants, whatever it needs, it must have from us and from German Attack Morm Local- you fully and a generous v Repulsed. bombing squadron made numerous with heart. ized and Nearly All sorties and 23.000 kilograms of projec- Hindenburg Persists AIR FLEETS SMASH tiles were dropped on cantonments, have sending of "Bull" to LOXDOX, April S. FollovHng are the stations and enemy establishments. in Boast of Victory We been immense quantities our men gtcial reports on the flguting in France: Fires were caused, notably In the sta- Quentln. It is INVADING TEUTONS at the front, and at the same time trying to supply consumers at home. BRITISH (NIGHT) Since dawn tions at !non and St. LONDON, April 5. "The En- this morning the Germans have de- confirmed that from March 31 to April now we asked to give output: 36,000,000 livered heavy attacks north and south 3 five other enemy airplanes were de- tente in the last few months But are all our sacks, of Dernancourt. southwest of Albert stroyed by our pilots. has convinced us that the victory 2,000,000 lbs., 100 carloads of "BULL" every month. and In the region of Moyennevtlle. FHKXCH (DAY) The Germans con- which we require to insure Ger- Contlnvrd from Firtt Paf. DURHAM l! At Dernancourt and southwest of tinued their attacks during the night many's- political and economic Albert they succeeded in getting a with undiminished violence, throwing future cannot now be taken from appetite for eating holes In columns of This call means more than just huge figures to me and I.know it footing in our defences. The situa- fresh forces Into the battle. Wo have us," marching troops Is never ciliated. The was by a coun- said Field Marshal von tion at Albert restored Identified fifteen division on this part Hindenburg in a telegram to the bombers unload their wares at all hours will mean more than figures to the hundreds of thousands of men every- ter attack. of tho front, seven of them fresh ones. and In all sorts of weather. Some of el Essen Chamber of Commerce, In the region of Mesnil and Notwithstanding the marked supe- these lads (ro six or seven times In one where in the country who "roll their own" and who look upon that our line has been heavily riority In the strength of the enemy according to a despatch to the night, pound aerodromes and blow fresh shelled, and some Infantry fighting forces, which the Germans used up Central News from Amsterdam. gaps In battered villages. They have little muslin sack of good old "Bull" as a personal, everyday necessity. baa taken place near Mesnil, but with- recklessly, they did not obtain their "We must suffer still for n created a demand for the camouflage out advantage to the enemy. Enemy objective, which was the railway from short time the present anxieties that cannot be satisfied, Attacks on 'Moyennevtlle were repulsed. Amiens to Clermont, as Is shown by in to insure our good German gunners who fire at distant It means that the Government has found that our fighting men An attack carried out by our troops documents found on prisoners. French order targets aro stung mercilessly by these southeast of Gommecourt resulted In regiments, resisting step by step and future," the Field Marshal is hornets. need the "makings". the capture of ISO prisoners. counter attacking energetically, main- quoted as having added. What chance has a battery crew On the British front south of the tained their line In Its entirety and against an airplane that drops within been quiet. But, if "Bull" is a necessity to you, here, in the peaceful of omme the situation has Inflicted cruel losses on the enemy. bank of the Meuse successful thrusts shouting distance and pelts thi-- in the pursuit BBITI8H (AFTERNOON! This Meanwhile In the north the French sunshine? enemy's have brought us prisoners. Heforo your daily life, greater to morning the activity of the withdrew their positions to west of Verdun tho artillery battle, which had Some of the airmen drop twenty-fiv- e how much its necessity those splendid artillery and trench mortars Increased Castel. They ejected the Germans bombs each on ammunition dumps. was Increased during the day. also was gone to fight for north of the Somme and followed from Arrlerecourt Wood, west of lively during tho night. When the aerial procession has finished Americans who have you to win this war for you. by a series of strong Infantry attacks Mallly-Rameva- l. Southeast of a funeral pyre is usually all that re-I- along all of that portion of .the battle a brilliant counter attack gave Ins of the plies of shells thnt have I know that you will think of them as I do only of them. I know front which lies between the Somme the French the St. Algnan farm, which TO LIFT HUMBERT IMMUNITY. been so laboriously accumulated In the arid Bucquoy, they held against all assaults. wlldernesr. be single complaint. I you The latest reports Indicate these at- Between Montdldler and Noyon the Catnpn are Mt alight, convoys bear- there will not a know that will give up your Adopt ' tacks met with virtually no success artillery fighting became very Intense. French Senate Hrsolatlun ing lumber for the roads are thrown of "Bull", however long you have enjoyed it, close is anywhere and have resulted in further French troops attacked the German fur Sarb Action, Into disorder and bridges are halved re- share however it heavy casualties to the enemy. lines and obtained possession of the direct hits. The scarred square at Ba- - On the same front our troops car- Kplnette wood, 600 Paris, April 5. The Senate passed to- to you, as you will give up anything you have if it is made clear to you greater part of day a resolution favorable to lifting the paume looks like an upturned, battered ried out a successful attack In the yards north of Orvlllers-Rore- l. All sieve. neighborhood of Hebuterne. They to dislodge parliamentary Immunity of Senator that our forces over there need it. efforts of the Germans th Charles Humbert concerning charges The Cambral road, feeding that clear- took some 200 prisoners and a number French were vain. ing house of westbound traffic, Is so hole of machine guns. operation en- Hiuwiiik UUI Ul ma Itimiivn 111 lilc Further east a local 1'nttcd States In the early days of the Infested by our aircraft that the Ger- That the Government has requested the whole output of "Bull", South of the Somme there were no abled the French to enlarge their posi- mans shun it and take devious tracks on British war. g further attacks made the tions north of Mont Benaud, which across tho fields. The Gothas arc try-lu- of all of front by the enemy notwithstanding the night and day output our factories, must make this abso- the Germans, their It said In New York Thursday the same game. It Is confirmed that the fighting yes- false statements, were never able to wii lesser raldurH from the German side se- that at the request of the French Am- lute need clear to you. terday on this front was of a moat take from the French. have taken to lomblng the French vit- vere and persistent nature, the enemy bassador the activities of Senator Hum- OERMA" (NIGHT) There hav bert, who Is of f,e of iates behind our lines, but their efforts making repeated assaults on our posi- the editor Journal Into Instgntflcsnce been artillery duels and local Infantry I'arls, would be Investigated by the Atto- Vle beside tho record And I know that you will not forget the little muslin sack gone tions east of of our organised battle craft. In their (DAY! Between engagements on both sides of the rney-General of the State of New BRITISH .the Bomme, Strong French counter at- Invcihgatlon, cases it Is thn Chilian imputation behind present on its mission of hope and inspiration Xiuce the Kommo heavy York next week. The it for the to our boys in River and western of con- our lines that has suffered most, fighting continued yesterday during tacks failed on th bank was added, would be conducted In evening late the Avre. nection with the French Government's the trenches. the afternoon ami till a lively artillery ac- hour. The enemy employed strung There has been prosecution of Senator Humbert on a forces and delivered repeated assaults tivity before Verdun. charge of having had tranxactlons with "Bull" will come back, with ribbons of honor. Have no fear. on our positions. These attacks were GERMAN (DAY) After a hard Germany. beaten off with loss to the enemy, but struggle we hav taken, between th The Inquiry will Include Humbert's depoWts of money with J. I'. Morgan & Dashwood our troops were pressed back a short Somme and the Luce rivers, Hamel north-ca- st Co. dealings Bethle- distance to positions cast of Vlllcrs-Brettonne- and also tho wooded districts and his with the (about nine miles cast of and southeast of Vlllers-Bretonneu- x hem Steel Company In purchasing war Amiens), which they now maintain. and Castel and Mallly on tho Bupplics for France. North of the Homme the enemy's west bank of the Avre. President artillery has been active during the We attacked yesterday south of the LABOR BARS PEACE MISSION. night In the neighborhood of Bucquoy Somme and on both sides of Moreuil Company and in tho Scarpa Valley. Hostile and threw the enemy out from his Three Kffort of British Delegation The American Tobacco concentrations early this morning In strong positions. English and French NEW YORK the neighborhood of Albert were en- reserves advanced against our troops. to Iteaeh Hrre Frustrated. 53 gaged by our artillery, Tli el r storming attack broke under our London, April 5. Joseph Havelock There is no FRENCH (NIGHT) The Germans Mr. Wilson, secretary of the Seamen's and did not resume their attacks on the The enemy showed desperate resist- Firemen's Union, asserts that the union other collar front north of Montdldler during the ance on th whole of the front. His has frustrated two attempts rrcontly course of the day. Our troops have losses are consequently unusually se- made by three Brltlbh labor delegates to made with the vigorously counter attacked the en- vere. We took several thousand of sail for the United States. dis- emy and have succeeded In Improving prisoners. (nm sttemnt was made hv an Amerl-- novel and points, nota- According to completed their positions at several a calcula- can steamship and later one by a vessel tinctive lapel-fron- ts bly In tho region of Mallly-llamev- tion the number ef prisoners brought from France, but the crews refused to and Cantlgny, the north and west out- In by the army of Gen. von Hutler In sail with tho peace delegates. of the skirts of which towns are In our hands. the period from March Jl to March A further gain of ground was real- 2$ amounts to 51,218 and th captured ised this afternoon north of Mount guns to "21. With the capture th Dashwood. Henaud. whole booty up to the present has 20c each. The artillery of lxth sides between risen to more than (0,000 prisoners Bell-an-s Tasalgny and Noynn haa beou contin- and more than 1,300 guns. uously violent. lly way of reprisal for the continual Absolutely Removes On Wednesday we brought down bombsrdment for some days of our I five German airplanes and on captive shelters in lAon we have taken Hhclms Indigestion: Druggists balloon was destroyed by fire, )urlng under our fire MT 'luesijiy night and Wednesday our In the Champagne land on the taat tefund money if it fails