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THE WRUST WEEK SUCCESS AT VERDUN MADE TO SAVE CROWN FOR PRINCE Additional 'prestige to tba .('rowiu U alino't tlirrr to one, tlie prlnrr tb Prlnce’a name. |»nj ? She Han Inflicted heavy loAnen If all aecounta of-the Kalaer'a III- on her hut they have, not nass have not been (troRaly eiagger- txvn as heavy as those she herself ated, the time may not be far. die- lias sustained. Swapping men !■ SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR GO . TO AID OF THE BRITISH POSITION MAY BE TAKEN New Tork Times Expert Say# Get- man Effort 1# Neoee«ary to Save Hohenr.ollern Rule—Crucial Stage of Fight Tet to Come—Attack May Aeooeeed. In my last review of the Verdun 0ghting, one of the probable reasons for the German attack waa given as the coming failure of German num bers and the desire to strike for a decision in the west while still at the height-of power. The persistence of the Germanj In the offense, however, In apito of enormous losses they have sustained, brings into prominence other contri buting caused. Any full considera tion of the Verdun situation must, therefore. Involve a statement of the general conditions in other fields that affect it. In the analysis of these conditions the answers to cer tain Questions must be found? If the theory of the attack la to hold to gether. Veritas larludea probably the strongest individual points, or, 1 let ter, aActJoua, la Uie entire western line. Not only la this war, but In every war waged In this territory, ha# Verdun been the objective, and almost always has It been the stum bling block. It Is also far removed from P.arla—in fact. Is further from Paris than almost any other point !u the French line. To take Verdun Is not to open the road to Paris. Capture of the fort ress would cauao a roadjuatment rf the French Hoe, of course, ae It la the pivotal point on which the line tant when the Crown Prince may bo called upon tp assume the throne. If this Is the case. It ia necessary first that her be rehabilitated fn the good opinion of the German people and prove himself of a calibre sufficient ly large to have aome colbr of right to the position. Conxlri'-rlng these two facte alone, rather a poor proposition bow, and one that Germany can by no means afford. 1 HrJw much lass can she afford to suffer greater loss than she can in flict 1 ? That Germany feels this,* feels that a continuation of her attack on the same plan as that followed dur ing the first two weeks is too expen- they will be to take an offensive stand, for the lohger they watt the tfoakpr wlH be their adversary In comparison. - In the east, the other field of greet * ■ » ■ ■ > public- Interest and of Importance, the Itussianea ere still keeping up One More I’asa to be Forced In Per- thelr advance. The rate of advance during the last week may be sorne^ what disappointing to the sympathis ers of the allied cause. Aa & matter of fact? Jiowever, the Russian laft sian Mountains-—To Strike at Turkish Communications. it la entirely reasonable to aaaums alve a performance, is apparent by that to stir the people at home and to the changa in method during the past restore the Crown Prince to jiopu- week. wing, which waa operating In Peraia. was so far to the east of tha Russian right, which rested on the Black Sea. that the right had to move mora that they may be said to be In virtual The Russian troops In Persia, says Petrograd, are now so far advanced toward the Mesopotamian frontier larlty a new victory was necessary, a victory possessing all the elements of startling and dramatic character that marked the theatrical effort in Ser bia. What could more completely ' This week there has been a decid ed diminution of infantry, engage ments. The artillery has been ex- tremedy active, just as active as at any stage of the engagement. Rut fill the requirements than the cap- the Germans seem to be relying more turn of the strongest and most Im- ! on the effect of their concentrated portant of the French strongholds? artillery fire than on the infantry It would prove conclusively that not' charges that were so frequent ten only had the Germans not been (lays ago. The location of TTretf af-'* weakened by many months In the | tack has also undergone a decided trenches and by continuous offelf-j change. Originally the attack was slves In different fields, but that they directed along a narrow front imme- wero really stronger than when thejdiately north of Verdun, war first broke out. In the first of these reviews deal- Furthermore, Russia had broken' ing with the Verdun battle, the con- loose again In Armenia and Mesopo-1 lecture was made that the city’s de- tamla. driving the Turks, aa they - Tenses could not be-shaken from this had driven the Austrians through | direction heeausf of the natural ad- Gallcia a year before. Turkey waa vantages of terrain and the Improved In difficulties. Her troops seemed unable to stem the Russian advance, and the fruits of the .Serbian cam paign were threatened by the danger of & separate peace. Germany also knows, jnst as the rest of the world appreciates, that Bulgaria, though lined up with her at present. Is nevertheless always a doubtful quantity. Rumania, too. Is a thorn In the Teuton side. Rumania holds the key to the Balkan situa tion, and Is In a strategic position geographically to open tha way to another such sweep through Gallcta as occurred a year ago. Thus the entire campaign against Russia, made at a tremendous loss, would bn nullified. And Rumania la mohlllxcd. Is all ready to fight. Only permanent works held by the French and that as a consequence, before the Germans rould make any head way. the point of attack would have to shift to the left bank of the Meuse, between that river and the forests of Argonne. This has been confirmed by all the later fighting. Space does not permit a detailed account of the battle and Its various phases and elements. It Is hoped that later, possibly when the fighting is over In this sector, events In other fields may be of such a nature as to permit these details to he discussed thoroughly, and the whole battle re viewed as one extremely Important operation rather than as a series of fights running from week to week. At present. In desltng with the flght- a declaration of war Is necessary to! Ing north of the city It Is efficient, throw a half million-troops on one'In give merely the main feature of this part of the engagement. The French, In their retirement before the first German rushes, did side or the other In the face of auch a situation, it turns when, after running from west' waa necessary for Germany to prove to east through the Argonne. It her supremacy In order to make her! not give up anything that could be change, direction and runs practical- position aerure It waa alto neree-! considered In the light of a main ly north and south through Lorraine *»ry to gain a victory which would position Aa a matter of fact, there and Alsace, j startle the world For this reason; Is In thla sector but one main poet- Whet the French will liere to do If Verdun made a strong appeal as the tton eest of the Meuse, and that is point of attack. | what might be termed the ridge of fn attacking Verdun Germnny en- Louvemont. tered a trap. It matters not that the' Thla ridge runt tn an unbroken trap was of her own making. It was, line along the Cote du Polvre Just as truly a trap as If the Allies through the northern tip of the had made ft and baited It. To prove 1 woods of ffaudromont. thence south- her worth. Germany attacked the east across the plateau of TTouan- Verdun fella la tn fall bark, probnMy to Tool, as e pivotal point, end to draw bark slightly from RbHms wentnard and from To«l ennthward. Met Ton) la also one of the strongest barrier forla. and. except for. the oc- cepatlnn of a few additional mllca of French territory, the German prob h-m of reaching Parla would be Just about (be aamn as It was before Vcr- den was taken, eicept that the num her of men they rould use to take It would be materially lessened. Between Verdun and Rolsaona. the western pivotal point of the French slowly In order that the left might catch up. Othelrwlse, the l|ne would be con tinually lengthened and attenuated. The Russian left Is operating In the most difficult country In the whole eastern field. It has taken Kerman- shah, but from that point to the Tigris It must pass through the high ridges of the Persian mountains, through passes so narrow In place} tha‘t they are more like gorges than passes. The Russians, however, are push ing steadily forward and have al ready left Kerrhanshah about forty miles behind them. Their next ob jective Is Khanykln, about 100 miles due’west of Kermanshah. Once this point Is taken, the way is compara tively open to the river. The Turkish force, which IS oppos ing the British on the Tigris, will b* taken In the rear and be cut off en tirely from Its line of communica tions unless It tetlres before the Rus sians come up. There Is a fairly good road be tween Khanykln and the Tigris—a distance about sixty miles—which reaches the river at the town of Jad- Ida. about fpety miles north of Bag dad. It la by this means that the Turkish force, unless It retire# In time, will be eut off and either be de stroyed or captured.^ In addition .tq the mountainous country throngirWhtch they are com pelled to pass the Russians are also hampered by the weather. Thta ele ment. however, la offering fewer dif ficulties each day that passea, and as spring cornea on will be to the In vaders' advantage rather than other wise ORDERED!!) HELP CARRANZA TELLS HIS TROOPS , TO AID l. S. EXPEDITION NO ENCOUNTERS OCCUR ' . A Although no Assistance Has Reen Given by Mexicans Officials Do Not Expect Trouble—Troops Plough Way Through Sand—Col- nmns are to Join. and his officials with the United co-operation with the British at Kut- el-Amara, where Gen. Townshend’s forces have been cooped up for sev eral months, and the campaign against Bagdad has become twofold, with the likelihood of the Russians being as important a factor in the Mesopotamian! operations as their allies. Before the Russian penetration, , - , „ through the mountaid passes of the! State* pursuing Mila into the Kermansheh region, it was generally mountains of the Cialeana district- held that the chief aim of the Rus-1 This was announced for Gen. Car- sian operations on the extreme ranza by Consul General Andres southern front was, effectively and i Garcia, who sent an official state- once .for all to crush German in-1 ment to Mayor I^ea of El Paso in fluence and ambitions in Persia, and order that the mayor might assure only the most visionary critics here> the border that there was no danger conceived the? possibility of Russia’s of friction between the Carranza and successfully traversing the Persian the American troops. Gen. Carranza will co-operate mountain provinces and assuming an important role in Mesopotamian affairs. The latest news, however, of the success of the Russians In working, their way through the passes of the formidable range which acts as a natural boundary between Persia and Turkey, shows that the Russians are in a position to convert their potential threat against Mesopotamia into a positive menace. “The entire force of Gen. lior- tani lias hceiK.#L<)tlfle<rthat it must co-operate with the United States troops in ever) thing pertaining to this campaign In Mexico in pursuit of the bandit Villa," Consul Gar cia said. "We are assured by Washington that this movement means nothing more, and we are acting on these assurances." Gen. Pershing’s report of^ his en- The Turkish reinforcements which' trance Into Mexico served to dispel were sent from Bagdad and Mosul, to a great extent fears that had been by way of Sulemanieh and Sehna, to' entertained In some quarters that re threaten the flank of the Russian sistanre would be offered by troops forces at Kermanshah and make a of the de facto government.-- 1 Col. further Russian advance dangerous, llertanl, the commander officer yf have been compelled to withdraw on the famuixa garrison at Palomas, account of British pressure from the on the south side of the dividing line, south and Russian activity in the promptly Joined Gen. Pershing. Ilia north, which some time ago resulted force was only some four hundred tn the capture of Bltlla. The Rus- men. but they were reported fo ha»e aians therefore are now opposed displayed willingness agd even eager- As there seems to be no force of, only by frontal resistance, against ne: to Join the chase can troops will I ail Ulll AA II VI IUV xjliiix l# •«. wa i. v — .» - Black Sea capable of offering any i the mountains separating them from of them are being cm Turks anywhere east of a line from which they have advanced through Moxl real resistance to the Russian ad- Mesopotamia. vanco. practically alt of the Turkish | ^ r<md from K<Tni , n , hah » M t- 1 by Gen. mont and throngh Vaux North of this tine the ronntry Is broken. There la no continuous line on which troope esn he supported from empire In Asia Is very apt shortly In Russian hands. SIB WAR CONTINUES to he eater atrongeet position In the French line She must keep on until Verdun fall# Rhe dare not atop now To do so would be to ndmlt to those whom she not only wishes to Impress either side The Individual e’evs- hut whom she must Impress that she tlona In this broken country were Is np longer rnpebte of the task she! held by the French largely as e sva- haa set out to accomplish. At thla' tem of advance posts end were not line, there are « number of places stage of the war game, auch an nd-j susceptible of defense against any! where the Fren< h have nothing like mission would be well-nigh fatal such attack tn fore* as that hurled the advantages of terrain that they, Not that German failure to take upon them by the Germans possess In the Verdun section, where the French fortress will end the war) The French retired from these ad- there ere no permanent worka of any <a favor of the Allies But It will > vanced positions one after the other, kind, wherw conditions lend them] prove both at home and abroad that 1 Inflicting such loss, aa they could on selves much more readily to offen-| Germany la atirely surrounded by an the attacking troope. anttl the main Iron ring, end that sooner or Inter! position of the tanvetnoat ridge was she will beat herself to pieces against I reached, end there they stood feet It In her efforts to break through Their mein line wm eenrhed. end If The effect In the Orient Is apt to be, this were plerrcd the entire Use As a body the remain under the Gulf of Alexsndrctta north to the| but one of the difficult passes of their oW PM—[§der. but s number being employed as scouts Pershing. cwhere south of New Mexico, is twenty miles and possibly a Gen. Pershing at. t Ivid'-d force he is commanding inking ftip'r wav towards. Villa i/rnus They bid had no en- er with Mexicans and their pro ln*o Mexico In search of Fran- Vl'ta and hta little army has uninterrupted, according to tha laconic niesajgcs received by Gen. Funston. “Meretv plowing Ihetr way through the desert sand," were the word* of Gen Funston in summaris ing the day s developments Berlin Keys von TlrpiU'a Art Does Not Mean Owl ton. P gr th ar r- •!«. n alve operations, and which are much ueerer to Parle. It Is e very nature] question to aah. then, why. since thla la an, have the Geewtaae seterted Verdue. with ward, sometimes narrowing to a mere mountain path, winds between the crests of the high ridges of the Persian mountain province of Lurl»- (an. Along this the Ra«-lans have already |.r«*-ec<|ei| fifty miles In the fact of great ixlda. A like distance along the same road, whlrn. turning southward, run- between two ntoun- , Berlin vt. tendon. Friday: Oer | u, ‘" M***." 1 ™ man officials repent the statement ,0 ur * ’V' * • hat submarine w.rfnre will go on In • t,,rr * ^ the limit, set by the German memo | ^ fmndum to neutral powers of teat I If Khnnlkin Is once attained the month, but that the demands of those Ku«lans will have fj^ “> ,h * who wished to see the Indiscriminate! rear of the Turkish Bagdad army, torpedoing of "whatever front of torpedo tubea. ... , .. tk expression of one of those who gd-1 P r *** ur T ,ro ™ n ° r *“ !"• In the effort* to destroy Villa and De fnl. occupation of the Van region has |,t, r(l ||„ wrr , hul Indiscriminate i rear oi me twr-i-a The < ampalgw l< rer comes In! • n< * *° ***• Rcltiah pressure ftotn tns )>a • assumption l,** to use the. southeast upon Bagdad will be added government's troot . I ( ^ sow • bt m etrtwfH Trim . The campaign Is being conducted that I lie de facto •ps Mill co-operate all lie dlaadxautagea. In the proper Its.extent embarrassing, though no man can answer to this question will bo found the secret of the true military situa tion. not only In the west hnt throughout the entire war area. The question of numbers explains why there Is s German offenalve at all. It does not explain why Verdun It Is entirely possible that Turkey, teeing her powerful ally, whose press agents have filled For mind with Ideas of Invincibility, beaten off by would he threatened. It waa oa thla line then that the real test of the re- slsllag power of the French fnrroa waa made. The Germans have launched attack after attack on thta line, mainly against the town and vocate thla policy, will not be filled This also Is the deduction which those acquainted with Jhe situation declare can he drawn from the resig nation of Admiral von Tlrpitx The conclaaldn Is aald to he strengthened by the feet that Admiral von fapelle already facilitated Russian progress In this direction, and the Russian critics now prophesy that-the cam paign will be carried forward to a successful conclusion. Ruaaln'a part will he to strike north of Bagdad and with the exeeptloe of »up|>»rt given by the smell garri son at 1‘alomaa. opposite t 'olumhu- military headquarter* oa the hordes without exMeiare that active aid would be given. The -tatement of Gen. Gavire. an enemy whom aha has been tauabt fort of Vnux. hut at to believe la Inferior, will. In the face of the Russian terror, ask for peace waa chosen as the point of attack 1 ^ mean the loaa of her empire For that we must go much further ,n E° ro P*- but the will save ber em end much deeper P' r * ,n Asia, which, aa matters stand At the beginning of hostilities the Gentian Crown Prlora was the so- ] knowledged leader of the war party. | In fact, he ia generally credited with being more directly responsible for the war than the Kaiser himself. | The strong Socialistic element in this writing still to (Friday night) they hevs make any Impression When It waa found that to attack on this front was to court enormous losses without further gain to justify now. Is In Immedtala danger of din-j them, the attack was shifted to the ruptlon west hank of the Mens# between If Turkey breaks away. Bulgaria 1 Bethlncourt and the river. On thin will follow Inevitably, and the Torres! front also there la a continuous Vedras at Salonlkt will be converted Into a ktnctlc power which will sweep north through Serbia and' ridge similar to that which charac terizes the terrain on the other bank. From a point on the Meuse Jnst Germany had reached the point ti\ Its * ,r,ke Austria from the back door, south of Regnevtlle there branches not only with the half million lout a ridge which run# westward. French. English, and Serbians who passes between Cumleres and the are centred there, hut also with an! Bols de Corbeaux, and continues on additional half million Rumanians Just south of I.e Mort Homme I^e and possibly art additional 8 00,000, Mort Homme, for which there has Greeks. It Is then that the end been such a struggle and which would come. | seems to be. held In part by either _ These are the possibilities that stde, Is not a part of the north, about brought about, or. to say the least, <:<,rn ’? n y w,, l In defeat at Ver-; the same height as the ridge Itself. Germany was-willing to embark on ! ' ,,e cannot therefore-top fight- |„ ft £ 00( j artillery position, and It, lu a measure to save the war now. Even though military con- aR pfiffi has tactical value, but Is pos- party, which at hot tom meant Having slderatlons dictate that the Inevitable S es?ed of no strategic value at all In the royal house. The successful con- ,, * s u , vlnff 1 on n “* , ro,n l ,on * | relation to the posltlon'as a whole, elusion of the war Is, therefore, life ^' r gnln. she cannot listen. • j t j,.. s i m ply a good defensive and of- or death to the Hohen/,o|lerns. | 'hily one tiling will serve and that is pensive point, not a lino, ajid as such victory. | t | ie p rf > n ch are holding It. If the growth where the existence of the war party as auch was seriously threatened. Tills was brought ghout by a number of element* that need not concern ua now. The ortty~ point of present Impor tance Is that the general situation ps outlined did exist. The war was eut th# railway, severing th* only haa been chooen as tho new minister I ,ni P < > r, *“ t 11"* ” f h ' ^cv'mn-mlcr at Ja.rr, that whll* He la known merely as an excellent, wb,rb ,b * Turkixh nrmy la receiving lie had given order* for ro-oprr*. administrative officer not having | ,u ship command In the Inst twenty-five - • • • ,.,t. h. ... ioovh .... .v. ri«b. | MATE TEACHERS MEET hand man of Admiral von TlrpBa until his retirement last November. FRENCH ATTACK GERMANS floetlle Force* Clash Near Greek Soil—AIMcxi Gain Village. tlon In arrovdnnre with In-true- I thm* from hi* government he per sonally did not Indorse *urh action, wa* the ha«i* for comment by nrmy men. Gather In t'olnmhU to IHacua# By some Gavlra’a attitude wa* ! taken aa indicative of that of many *^‘ a * r * Thr* r Activity. j n f Carranza's officer#, but-those high The growing tendency to hind the *“ •uthorlty expressed the hope that school closer to the life of the com- «J*selpHno would prevail In all c.vae# munlty in which It la aituated was r h V : r „ , r: r '" n "i B 0 P! n "? n the keynote sounded tn the opening 1 n ; session of the forty-fourth The German people are not kept very well Informed about the wan They know only what the ruling powers want them to know. In this .connection. It will he remembered, for example, that immediately after tho Teuton occupation of Serbia wax complete, the BotIIi);. papers wero asking why. in the face -of all tho Teuton victories'in practically ©very thealbe of war, the- Allies were ^ot asking for peace. They seemed en tirety unable to understand it. This of itself proved that th* real situation was either not understood or had bqen deliberately distorted by the officials. As the days passed after the Serbian victories and lengthened into weeks and months. 4-- In regarfj to Verdun, or for that German* succeed In capturing It as matter to afiy other given point on! they seem about to do. It does not the western front. It is not literally j mean that-Hro French have suffered Impregnable. When she says Ver- a sevej-e^bToiy. dun is impregnable, it is to a certain j On this baf|k the French have pro- extent a figure of speech and merely needed very much as they did on the means that the defenders can make east hank, giving ground slowly the attacking forces pay such an ex- until the main defensive position is orbitan* price for It that as ~a mili-j reached. They have not reached.this lary proposition it Is not,attractive.! position yet, hot the attacks of the A military commander, befpre he German artillery have been such as launches an attack against a fortified i 10 promise that this retirement will as It bad la Gavlra. annual' !s, ° ronc ’ , *' , tcd plan of action he- A strong French column with »* b t| convention of“the'state Teiichcrs- As-] mi, ‘» ar J r m™ "* ,,1 *‘ l wo artillery from the Salonlkl entrench-! . .. Thursday nixht In the r0,in ' rl **" has been agreed upon. The ed camp haa attacked and occupied f^Vumbm heatre I Americans are In Mexican relying on the villages of Macikovo, Karadagh j _, . , . ■ . | the assumption that Carranza ha* a«- and Kozuna, which had been entered I The teacher was named as the re ^ t< , d , n ,, 00(1 fa|th (hp notp of |||( , by Teuton and Bulgarian forces. «c-! * Kenfy . t ' , \ r0UKh " hlrh ’’''-I 1 tl ° state department promising re.-lpro- cordlne to a Reuter dispatch from b * more strongly. 1 lit*, privily, | n chasing down the Salonlkl, dated March 18. The change from the old order was warm- j bandits and tho unofficial report French had only a few casualties. j ' y commended by Henry Nelson Mexico Clt* that orders had Owing to the encroachments of the f" y ‘ ,pr °[ Spartanburg, prealdeiit of ^ pn | s! ,„p (1 for co-operation. Teutonic allies into Greek territory | tbe as80C,atl ®" 1 ' n ^ u # d ^ ^ n „Tt' Neither I’crshlng n or Gen. and the consequent advance of the theatre 'Vas filled almost o capacltj. Funston has been Jivon any d I reel French, the neutral frontier zone! a f th f rPCls ' r ‘‘ t,on ^ ' ]; at .‘ ^ promise of support. It was pointed which had been agreed upon by tho already reached a total of more than, out, however, that Mexican army Greek and foreign governments Is twe *'® 111,1 ’. n .i tn 1 17100 fos-uhiy would consider it th* now eliminated. Forces of tho cen-1 ‘ n I fulfillment of their part of the pro- posfttnTOvelghs its value in terras of probable losses. He may, for ex ample, decide that the peculiar im portance of a given place fnakes It worth, say 200,000 men, and figures that ho can take it without losing In and still brought no sign of th© i excess of this number, weakening of the Allies, Germany, If. however, ho launches his attack was practically under compulsion to ; and finds that instead of the number show that she still possessed the he had calculated on it will cost him power to strike and to bring victory twice that number, he will. If he Is be made in the near future. Then and not until then will the erucli.l stage of the Verdun fight ing arrive. The French will bo holding position which, if taken. , or even seriously pierced, will flank the rest of the line and force a retirement.- ‘ Whether the Germans will have sufficient force left to drive the at- after the stroke to prevent unsettle-, considering only military art aside; tack forward no one can say. As to the feeling of security of the French, however, one point Is to be noted. The logical military answer to such ment and dissatisfaction at home | from,politics, abandon his effort, ad- Again, It will be remembered that ] mlt defeat, and later make hl» at- at the beginning of the waf the <!er-' tempt In some other quarter. jr* mans moved into France In three 1 Germany ha* already gone beyond an attack In force as dhe German's eolpmns, the centre one of which the value that any military con*td-!hav© directed against Verdun ^would was commanded by the Crown crat'on would fix on Verdun., Her he an attack lq some other quarter. Prince, whose Instructions were to! lessee are. of course, not known, but which would necessitate drawing take Verdun Thla he tried to do, | In view of experience on the western | troops away from, the city. “ In other words, a counter-offensive at' aome dther point. . The French and English have the men for furh a purpose, the guns and the ammuoltlon. Tha), the but waa,thrown back by General Rar- 1 front, experience gained both In rail, who thus enabled the French to Ghampagne and Loos, her loeeea to retain their positions lu Alsace and'tar cannot fall far short of 210,000 I or rain* men Twice efneo th* Crown Ptinse has This sacrifice has brought her a started aa attack In th* Argonne few extsf mites of terrftonr. hut It Freoch did not do so Is th# Seat erlf with th* object of driving dowfi tho has alae hrenght her Jnst np to the* done* of firm belief in their aWI ty weet hank of tha Menee and Joining real permsaeet defenses ef th# rtty^ to hold their own la the_flghttng la hands with tho Germane at th* Bt Theoe have not at ye hero touched except et eoo petal which Is all dOBgaseoa. It will throngh nod tahe tho carp tho shadow of Verdaa. Thpy ar* not ready tor their own offensive, ihetr artillery rseeme has not reechdd tho dasHrod paint, and the lengoc pohUc tpintrx (1 am spanking ef ihetr own tral powers and the Allies are face to’ face, the dispatch adds, and shell ing, sniping and grenade throwing nre in progress, fn The neighborhood of the aboTtTmentioned village about thirty miles north of Saloniki as on the other fronts where the adversary forces are in contact. tion of the meeting last .year at Flor ence. GERMAN ATTACK SHIFTS INCREASES ARMY House Takes Action to Get 20,000 Additional Fighting Mon. Paris Reports Repulse of Five Strong Attacks East of Verdun. The German drive at the Verdun defenses Friday again shifted its directum Strong assaults were madp by tire Germans on the lines east of Verdun during fhe night, five $neces- gram if they continued independent ly the operations against Villa. Gen. Falles, commanding the Mexican Troops^ In Sonora, is report ed to have placed at strategic points in the western part of that state, some five t'on and men to prevent the entry of Villa, and Gen. Luis Gutierrez is supposed to lie directing five columns in Chihuahua to prevent tho fugitive rebel from eseaplng- south or east. A clash between any of t.ho Car ranza troops and the Americans is n<'t anticipated by Amcrb ui army Congress took active notice of the ing repulsed by the -Fre ich, Pacis border situation Tuesday for the j announces. , first time. The House passed a joint j The German attacks were most resolution authorizing the recruiting violent, but,' each was broken up by of tlie mobile regular army to full the French curtain, of fire, tho Paris strength. This means the gddition war office declares. Both the fort ,sive assaults in the Vaux region be-f offirPrs, hut the (binthat some ingtinous detachment niigt t attempt an attack on the American forces has not been ignored. Should <ueh an incident occur, army men pay it of approximately twenty thousand men to the infantry, cavalry and field artillery. . . The step waa suggested by the army- general staff. It is urgently desired now because of the weaken ing of thj border force by the expe dition after ^illa. but ever since the patrol of, the border began the army has been greatly hanfficapped by the skeleton organizations of regiments, DUTCH STEAMER SUNK cans oa Board. * Th# Dutch passsngsr xfismer Tub- antis. bound from Holland for South America, has been sunk by~sn explo sion near th* Noordhlader lightship All the passengers, among whoa. It la reported, here several A merle* as sad tho msphsra of the crew, war* ■ rdaad ar axrwrt a min* has aat do and ,the village of Vaux were objec tives of.the Germans, two attacks being made on each, while a fifth was delivered in an effort by the Ger mans to debouch from a protected roadway southeast of Vaux village. FRENCH AIRCRAFT ACTIVE General Fight Follow* Attack on German Points—Machine* Drop M*« Have Been Tonwdocd—\meri L_ F,Te French Aircraft dropped May Have Bren ^»«Wl-^ ; j )0nibs on M( ,, z anmun)tl o D depots near Chateau Sslins and the sere drome at D*cuj^_while twenty-thr» other maobTnetnfcitc'Ved th©ItPflfl'BIfff’ camp at Hahsheim and th* freight siatioa pt Mulhauaaen la the attaek which followed the Gerazaas and the .Freoch each lost three or fear ma rhiaes A German airship attacked tha Eateate allied fleet south of Boieolkl. hot with what reaaft Ber Bo should scnrcoljAbo due to mistaken identity,, since the Uniform, equip ment and general appearance of the Americans would make conEusion'im- posfiible. - . Secrecy still is maintained ns to tho exact di-position of -the-punitive force, its composition and future movements; In general, it Is ad mitted. however; that juncture of col umns now heading . south j»wlll be made before the end of The week, perhaps Saturday, when they will be some fifty miles south-of tho boun dary line. ‘ V- Plan for Veteran*. Arrangements are being made for th© % entertainment of the reunion of the South Carolina Confederate \>t- TO#- wwwr WT* WHff tn Rock Hill April 25 and 2<S. Dutch Atesmed Torpadnad. London aaaounres (he torpedoing eftb* Dutch steamer Palemhsah tmm Rotterdam to Java, off the Gal »»J#r k«ht t* ik« Thame* estuary AQ of tho er** ar* reperted safa '