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FRENCH, AIDED BY AUDACIOUS
AVIATORS, SWEEP OVER
GERMAN POSITIONS
SEVERAL VILLAGES TAKEN
At Some Points Crown Prince’s Men
Fled Pell Mell Before The Charg
ing Frenchmen
New York. —While the allied troops
were busily engaged in consolidating
positions won in Flanders, the French
forces of General Petain ' struck a
mighty and unexpected blow against
the German line northeast of Soissons
and made some of the most import
ant gains of terrain since they threw
back the army of the German crown
prince which was besieging Verdun.
The stroke was made over a front
of about six mile?, from the east of
Vauxaillon to PargnysFUain. Under
rainy and generally unfavorable
weather conditions, the French push
ed forward all along the line, aided
by audacious aviators, who flew over
the German positions at an altitude of
about one hundred and fifty feet, using
their machine guns and penetrated the
German line at one point to a depth of
two and a fifth miles.
Numerous important positions fell
one by one. into the hands of General
Petain’s men and in addition more
than 7,500 Germans, an enormous
amount of war material and 25 heavy
and field guns were captured.
The greatest depth of the drive was
in the center of the line, where the vil
lage of Chavignpn was captured after
a violent struggle, which resulted in
the enemy fleeing pel! mell. Some of
the best troops in the army of the
German crown prince were engaged in
endeavoring to hold back the on
slaught, but their efforts were una
vailing under the enthusiasm of the
French to win positions which would
place them more advantageously to
press on later toward Laon.
GERMANY IS PLOTTING
FOR ANOTHER
IRISH REVOLUTION
British Premier Declares Arrange
ments Have Been Made To
Land Arms
London.—ln the course of a speech
in the house of commons ‘Premier
Lloyd-George declared the government
was aware that arrangements were
again being made, partly by Count von
Bernstorff, to land arms in Ireland.
The premier made the statement in
the debate on a motion regarding the
government’s Irish policy made by,
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
party in parliament. The Redmond
motion, which,was defeated 211 to 78,
follows:
‘‘‘The house deplores the policy
which has -been pursued by-the Trish
executive government, and the Irish
military . authorities at a time when
the highest interests of Ireland and the
empire dema.nd the creation of an at
mosphere favorable to a successful re
sult of the deliberations of the Irish
convention."
Premier Lloyd-George said, in his
speech, that the government could not
possibly forget what had happened
only eighteen months ago.
“In order to save those poor people
who honestly believed they were doing
their best for their country from being
persuaded by Others,” continued the
premier, "I thought it essential that
the government should take action,
not provocative, but firm action.”
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Bloody Food Riots Reported In Austria
London. —The Austro-Swiss frontier
has been closed, owing to the serious
internal situation in Austria, accord
ing to an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Berne. Several munition
factories were wrecked in recent food
riots in Vienna, Brunn and Laibash,
the rioters being mostly women, the
advices state. The police, according
to the reports, fired on the crowds
Xmas Presents For Pershing's Men
Washington. — Christmas presents
and other gifts from horhe for Ameri
can soldiers in France must be re
stricted to parcels of not more than
seven pounds each-
16 German Vessels Put Out Os Action
Petrograd.—Two German dread
naughts, one cruiser, twelve torpedo
boats and one transport were put out
of action by the Russians in the fight
ing around the islands in the Gulf of
Riga recently, but. their ultimate fate
is unknown, says an official statement
issued by the Russian admiralty. It
has been established that at least six
German torpedo boats were sunk in
the fighting. The Russians lost the
battleship Slava and a large torpedo
boat. • ; .
British “Tank" Sent To United States
New York.—A British tank, similar
to the giant war machines of this char
acter in active service in France, has
reached this port on a steamship from
Europe, and will be set up here as a
companion exhibit to the German sub
marine, recently arriving, to stimu
late Liberty Bohd purchasing. The
tank was lashed on the forward deck
•of the steamship, being too large to
be placed in a hold. A British army
officer and eight men were in charge
of it during the voyage.
U. S. TRANSPORT IS LOST
Steamer, Homeward Bound From
French Port, Torpedoed
And Sunk
Washington:—The .American army
transport Antilles, homeward bound
under convoy, was torpedoed an^unk
by a German submarine in the war
zone. About seventy men are missing
and probably lost
All the army and navy officers
aboard and the ship’s master were
among the 167 survivors. The missing
are members of the crew, three civil
ian engineers, some enlisted men of
the navy and sixteen of thirty-three
soldiers returning home for various
reasons. Neither the submarine nor
the torpedo was seen, and the trans
port, hit squarely amidships, sank in
five minutes.
This tragedy of the sea, rhe first in
which an American ship engaged in
war duty has been lost, is the first of
its magnitude to bring home to the
people of the United States the rigors
of the war in which they have engag
ed against Germany. It carries the
largest casualty list of the war so far
of American lives and marks the first
success of German submarine attacks
on American transports.
That the loss of life was not greater
is due to the safeguards with which
the navy has surrounded the transport
service, and the quick rescue work of
the convoying warships.
Following is the announcement made
by Secretary Daniels:
“The department is in receipt of a
dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims,
which states that the Steamship An
tilles, an army transport, was torpe
doed on October 17, while returning
to this country from foreign service.
■This vessel was under convoy of sev
eral American patrol vessels at the
time.
“The torpedo which struck the An
tilles was not seen, nor was the sub
marine which fired it. The torpedo
hit abreast of the engine room bulb
head and the ship sank within five
minutes. One hundred and sixty-sev
en persons out of about two hundred
and thirty-seven on board the Antil
les were saved. About seventy men
are missing. All the naval officers i
and officers of the army who were on
board the ship at the time were
saved."
Upon receipt of the cablegram from
Admiral Sims the government kept its
promise not to withhold bad news from
the public. The issuance of the state
ment was delayed only until the pavy
could telegraph to the families of the
men known to have been lost.
Secretary Daniels carried word of
the loss of the Antilles .to the white
house when he went there with Ad
miral Mayo, who made his report to
President Wilson on his visit to Eng
land at the direction of the president.
Quick upon the wave of sorrow at
the news of the loss of the transport
came a feeling of distant relief be- I
cause she had met her fate homeward
bound and not on the way over with
troops. The only soldiers on board
were returning to the hospital or on
special assignment. Had the full
complement of the transport been
aboard, the loss undoubtedly would
have been written in hundreds, as she
was struck in the most vulnerable spot
and went under so swiftly that few
could have escaped.
The Antilles, a freight and passen
ger steamship of 6,878 tons gross, own
ed by the Southern Pacific Steamship
company (Morgan line), was one of
the crack American coast liners; She
plied between New Orleans and New
York and had carried thousands of
persons to the Mar di Gras, celebration
in the southern city. The vessel was
taken over by the government as a
transport early in the war.
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Bulgaria Seeking Opening For Peace
Copenhagen.—While Emperor Wil- '
Ham and King Ferdinand of Bulgaria i
have been exchanging assurances at i
Sofia of the unshakable loyalty of j
Bulgaria and Germany to each other
and of the permanent nature of the
alliance of the two countries. Bulga
rian agents abroad have been endeav
oring to get into touch With the en
tente powers on the subject of peace
and subsequent relations. Their ef
forts are declared to be inspired by
apprehension that Germany and Aus
tria-Hungary, particularly the latter,
may not be overzealcus in defending
Bulgaria's interest at the peace con
ference.
Subjects Os Holland Ask U. S. Help
New York.—Detained in this city
three months because Ho ships have
sailed to Holland, three hundred sub
jects of that country, nearly half of
them women and children, petitioned
President Wilson-to assist them in re j
turning tq their native land. The p< - ■
tition states that the party gathered
here from all parts of the western i
hemisphere after they had been as
sured that tho steamship Nieuw Am
sterdam would, be permitted to sail
ehrly in July with a Belgian relief
commission cargo and passengers^ }
No Victory Seen For Either Side Yet '
Stockholm, Sweden:— The brgarriz-*
ing committee of the Stockholm con
ference has drawn up a manifesto
declaring that from the experience of
the three-year war it Is hot rash to
draw the conclusion that there-will be
no victory for either fade in 1817. pr
1918, or even later. It indicates, as
the general cohdltions under which it
considers peace should be nmde. the
complete evacuation of #ll occupied
territories in Europe and the colo
nies and the restoration of devastated
territories by an international fund.
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