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f \ LOST AHERDON KAISER MADE HIS BOLDEST EF FORT TO WIN WAR —i— ' TUTONS AT CULMINATION 2,000 CARRANZA TROOPS DESERT HIM FOR VILLA RANGERS ROUND UP MEXICANS EL PASO ALARMED Another View of Gentian Attack on French Fortress by a Washington Officer—Aid from Americans to the Allies Has llecn Negligible up "To' T fhis Time. A militarj- expert of national reputation analyzed the situation on the western battle line as fol lows: - The attack cn Verdun has failed. In all probability- the failure at Ver dun means that the Kaiser has reached the zenith of his military j ernMexico formerly were Villa*sol- power. The Fr'ench line is intact. Grave Apprehension in Washington— Aid "Slay be Pushed to , Gen. Pershing. Grave apprehension regarding the outcome of the American, expedition into Mexico in pursuit of Villa is evident for the first time in Wash ington upon the receipt by the war department of a dispatch from, Gen. Funstdif saying a report had reached him that two thousand Carranza troops at Chihuahua under Gen. Luis Herrera had revolted and aligned themselves with the bandit chief. If Herrera and his troops have joined Villa, some officials believe other Carranza commanders and troops may quickly follow the ex ample. In such an event the United States and the de facto government of Mexico would find themselves con fronted with a situation so serious that its possibilities hardly could be estimated. A large part of the forces ot the de facto government in north- Offlclals Ilefnne to Confirm or Deny Ammunition Smuggling. Texas rangers and the cavalry patrols have commenced a round-up of Mexicans along the frontier, who are suspected of being engaged in smuggling ammunition across the Rio Grande, a practice that is ad mittedly going on. Seven of these men were sent into El Paso from I eastern frontire villages and five have] been arrested at Ysleta, twelve miles east of El Paso At the latfer place the fciyilian resi dents say that the (fustoms officials and rangers discovered a plot to ship rapid fire guns across the border. Arrests were made but the authori ties refused to make any statement as to whether guns had been seized or had readied Mexico. REVOLT NOT CONFIRMED; BORDER NEWS CONFLICTING ARMOR PLANT BILL PASSES CREDITS RUMORS OF REVOLTS ‘ IN NORTHERN MEXICO Gen. Hell Says He n,elleves It True H .. Hut Carranza Officials Enter * 1/ Vigorous Denials. The news of Herrera’s deflection Senator* Vote on Tlllmaa Bill—Be- publicans Alone Against It. ^The French army Ls as formidable as it was before the attack started. In order to get a comprehensive Idea on the fighting at Verdun it is necessary to view the ’general situa- The troops under Herrera are de scribed as being probably the best equipped in northern Mexico and they are said’to be weK supplied with ammunition. Rebellion In Carranza's army tion from a political and military - wopld render the position of the viewpo nt.s There can be no question American expeditionary force so that the German offensive at Verdun ! perilous that every available soldier was p’anned with a Joint purpose, would be rustud in to reinforce the The muses were mixed between poll-: advancing columns. For this purpose tics and military strategy. not more than abopt fifteen thousand Ti>« political dement may be dls- men. would be available without cail- posrd of with the slninle statemet* °* 1 ^ National Guard. There ARMY IS TO RE 140,000 <r Hay Army Increase Measure Goes ' .-n Through 402 to 2. The Tllhnan blll to provide for th« erectiph or purchaso by the governs ment of an armor plate factory at a cost not to exceed eleven million dol lars was passed by the Senate lata, MANY MFXICANS IN CITY ™ ,ou “ * : HMIII niAlfcAIM m ,,,u tor llriK. Gon, Dell to t.-lefiraph Com j '''i^.mocra'uc BfinKtors supnor t e<! *ti« * Kl , I as ? ? u 00 v U un9 i 0 ," K an . I bin solidly, regarding it a« one oi ■ t 01 ^ 0 *J e , ve l,• 1 0 , be r tr . u v e ' important measures included In ,* * Believing That Herrera Has Rebelled Gen. Hell added to his message the | na ti ona i preparedness program i y-v f L"* « *• 5 cr»V /» t XT 1 1 CT CX _ . * r denial of Ignacio Enriguex, civil gov- Against Carranza Texan City Fro- ernor of tjie state of Chihuahua, who pates for OutbreaJ^lb Mexican Quarter Where 35,000 fylve—All Precautions Tak<‘n. El Paso, Texas, says: Private ad vices confirm ropo' tsr that Gen. Luis Herrera had joined the Villa forces at Chihuahua and left LitU.e room for doftbt tliat Mexican affairs had reached a point fraught With far- reaching and perhaps serious -conse quences to this country. Not only was it accepted that Her- rer£ had declared against both Car- hut it pent a telegram to Consul Garcia at El Pa"o, Texas; declaring that Gen. Luis Herrera, commanding the gar rison at Chihuahuai • Ci'y, still was loyal to the first-clnef and not to credit reports of his defection to Villa. Consul Garcia made puh'Ic a mes sage from Gov. T’n'iquez. which reads: “Your messree referring *o press retorts ■egarding Gen. 1-nis Ilerrera received I have Justjshaken hpnds with Gen. Herrera arfil he is loyal to the legal go vert)’ment cf Mexico. Do not 'give credit to re ports in this matter.” Gen. Herrera has been known as a porsopal enemy of Villa. His pres ent position is aid to tie that tho tic The Hay army increase bill, pro viding for a regular army peace strength of one hundred and forty rrtri za and the United States thousand fighting men Instead of the I W n S asserted with equal confidence- present one hundred thousand, pass- tiiftt-TtiFreon is in the hands of Villa rd the House late Thursday by a vote] forces and that all northern Mexico government has betrayed Mexi- of 402 to 2. It goes to the Senate j 3 seething with open rebellion c ,' n interests in permitting the soi- against the de facto government. ( of the to-^nter A1 lA ,. , Moxicnn torntory and that this ho- So grave, was the situation regard- ■ out weighed w hatever offenses ed here that the military authorities being hastened to completion. Nine Progressive Republicans joined with the majority in favor of the bllL They were Senators Borah, Clapp, Cummins, Groma, Kenyon. Norris, Poindexter, Ste’ling and Works. Senators Swanson, Reed and Till man closed tJtu> general discussion for tho measure, maintaining that thb private manufacturers never had ! dealt fairly with the government and that government manufacture in conv ;■ petition. with private manufacture was nert^sary. Senator Tillman de- | elqred the bill was not designed to drive - the private manufacturers out of business, and predicted that It would not. RUSSIANS PRESS GERMANS are now on.the border or in Mexico in the neighborhood of twenty-five thousand ifoldlers, and in the ’whole of the continental United States the other mobile forces number bnly a little more than five thousand. that tlie German pcrtple needed the rennrt of a great victory to keep up Ibe'r haskboiie They have waitc! for many month* fer the cheering new- **”it never came fo them; and the politicians at Berlin have been a* m-iti" -n their ehitirirm of the gov- • ernmont a. those of any other capl- p|R£ SLEEPS 36 BLOCKS P"t the major consideration waa| mlPtarv It ha- been ex tdent to the C-'em. -n -trateKisi- fur many monttisj that If Gormaey ever la to win thle’ for immediate consideration virtual ly as drafted ny the House com mittee. " f The negative votes were east by Representatives Britten, Republican, of Illinois, and London,^Socialist, of New York. Mr. Britten opposed the bill becqpse he favored a still further increay in the army and Mr. London because he favored no increase. Villa has committed. He has declared planned drastic steps to redeve^ll that he wm resi8t(With aM hls roW( . r t prpssinK the G( Mexicans in El I aso of a y a s t hc entry of American troops In'district southw ^ ,a h k! M-b o. hut .he report say, he U still tea miles. W1 Berlin Says Teuton Defence HenlkiM 1 nshaken In Great Offensive. 1 Heavy EXPECT EAJLY ADJOURNMENT Admlnhtrntlo^i I^>ndi-rs Say Congress Will End in June or July. XX * f If mu»t he xx on hefnre the ■prlng me Inctd entixlly. the Fnlfed W»fe* ft • r * factor In thl* rone tuzlon. up to the pro non t time the great tr»' ••Ti'i » w*H h tho A1 lie* has be en tha she rt* re of ram. i.. v . cut'll i p xpwpccpp Evidence of co-operation lietwe^n 111 RAMI ILLt, 1 L.X.xLbjtt President Wilson and congress, which may lead to an early adjournment at the eapMol, is seen by administra tion officials Hi tho action of the Senate and lloaso in putting prepar edness legislation ahead of other bills and practically removing the Euro-1 hie enlry and search I try (.raw——Sixty-Mile Wind Does the Bent. I to*- tie man v wild report*, the Anw-ritan munition fart'trtev have ni ' • t l-ogun a large shipment of rtfV-s to the Millies. Up to the p-oa- ent time less than one hundred thoo- aa"d \meriosn rtfl** have reached Eu-opo They wt-r* of an obsolete tyne ftnd have leen u***<t hv the Rue- ■Ians onlv A few large field pieces msv he added to ihis number. V 'll* the ••peeing of spring, the groat •• ti meets will commence. It ta l<r> hah'e that ntlhln three month* an average of Ihonsamls of rtflee will l*r **«’ a * eon fes n* e * Hr it A llt< the < tine# . At gen. aarv mem 1 In; ■ d l* hss ■ r the Allle* daily. | been no sliortegp of Gerttiany. but there has been -ndous shortage fa the Allied »-• l.ermany is heginning In ' rr-ulls of the ra-ualties. Her l-vxe rrarhe*! their numerical Tbej are falling off. The artnie* hare no; yet reached ■•'erlcal limit They can pro- en as rapidly as they ran get !y ’ends np to the a that It I* necea- to make her tre-i ore spring Know-! In relation to the Fir In the «astern part of Nash ville. Tcnn.. late Wednesday swept an area of thirty-six blocks, causing damage of twenty-five hundred thousand dollats. One death, that of a negro, was reported. Maby per son* received Injuries and many made homeless. Hit hundred houses were destroyed The seetlon was largely occupied by residences and hundreds of famtllea wera made borrele-a. A small ba’t of yim. lighted and thrown by a bov Into dry grass tn a vsennt lot started the fire and a wind driving fifty mile* an hour fanned the burning grr«« Into a torrent of names which quickly caught a plan ing mill and leaped from building to but’dtng. It was estimated that at leaat three thou-^r <1 persons ate homeless as a result of the fire One hundred mem- tiers of the Nations! Guard of Ten- pi-s-ee. ca'ied out hy Gov. Rye. were on dutv In the fire rone snd will re main there th(oujthout live night and il days to s'd In relief work and prevent possible looting. h'omes and enforce what would he practically martial jaw tn .“little Chi-; huahua,*’ the heart of El Paso's Mex ican section. • All night El Paso waited for .the warning whiaties. whlrh_ would tell that the expected outbreak lias oc curred. Three hundred soldiers with machin'' gun detachments waited under arms for any emergency and the police reserves, equipped with rifles, were also held ready. It is understood that government officials have sent to Washington a recomr*er. !atlon c uched In the strongest terms, urging that step* be | taken to disarm all Mex'rans along the border, taking the right of ford- oppnm d to Francisco Villa. Ten-Ion In administration quarter* | over the Mexican situation has re-, laved In the absence of official con-' flrn.atton of the report that . two thousand Carranza troops.at Chlhtia-' hua under Luts Herrera had Joined [ Villa. Conflicting advices from the border, however, caused th.» stats*-dw-j partmect’to telegraph American con-1 suls at Chihuahua anil Durango fori immediate report* regarding iler-| masshs of. Russians aro German* from the Riga ard for a distance of bile they have gained some advantages, the Russian wag office admits that south of Lako Dreswiaty the German* recaptured n trench that tho Russians had taken the previous night. The Russiana have again pierced the opposing lino in the Jarohstadt sector. A« cording to the German official rompiuntcation not even the smallest advantage against “the unshaken German defense'* has been obtained anywhere tn this great offensive, rev*. Slow wire communication south which the Russians have undertake* of the border mar delnv-The nmlles. I m porthwest Ku«*la. While Berlin The accumulation of denials of the declare* that the Russians havo Herrera report during tho day; the; rra-cd their vicious attack* In tho safe arrival ot army motor truck*. nctphhorhnod of Postavy. eastward with the Expeditionary force*: the If necessary.; restoration of radio ■communication pean and Mexican questions from the field of debate through votealstlppOrt- tng the pfeftldent. * Although some congressional leaders, notably Speak er Clark, say congress will be In ses sion until fall, administration offi cials predicted confidently that ad journment would come In Juua or early In July. * VILLA CANT ESCAPE Carvanra General Ha) a Troop* Both Conntrle* Surround Ilian. of *1 the f»rt* PR4IRIE FIRES IN KANSAS munition situation, the German staff deeb'rd l» make the drive before the AIPc* lad reached tliEIr greatest strenrth. Verdun was picked for two rea son* Nominally, it was the strong- ost point on the line; actually. It was abroit' The wc ikesf. all thing* con sidered It was nomlnal'y thc strong est because It ha* been known for grre-.fon* o* the French Gibraltar. Aetivtlly. It* *trencth wa* reduced great I v by the introduction of mobile gun* of great calibre. Thc fall of Verdun would appeal to the German people a* little else cou'd aopeal to them. It likewise w hi' • I ei'enlenlated to shatter the nerve,* of the French It wa* the w< nt-ost point on the line, because It rear* n nted a salient which, from a nil'i’a-y standpoint, always'is the easiest place to take. • Me: <Ty to take Verdun would mean optii us. unless the offensive resulted In pieri'ing tlie French HrV' tiiormich — ly In order to pierce'the line, Ver dun must he reduced so that /the A'lir* would not he enobled to re- ip fore'■tie line* In tlie rear. Tho one German hope xVas to drive stra' lit thrtiugh before tlie rreneli could remedy tlie l«;*s by intrenelllng xxltli,4*uns and men in tlie rear. Germany failed to take the nolnt| quickly. France now has reinforced tho line in the rear, so that the little; gains made in the frontal attacks are discounted completely. Even though the present horn- harclnicnt reduces what i'T left of tlie various forts and re'-ults in Mi • 'rttiitg out U e line, the Ger- nirrs will havo gained nothing of Burning In a Dozen 0>untfea !foa*e* are Caught. -Many Prairie fire* were burning In a do*en western Kansaa countlea Wed- v and Thursday. Vegetation U very drv because of the extreme beat • 1 Mgb triad* of tlie !a«t few days. Although no los* of life haa been reported, manr house* were caught In the fast moving flame* and paa- ture land* have been reduced to faat reaches of black stubble. One Mare. wMch originated near T entl. In Wichita county., started eastward, burned its way through Poott and I ane countie*, and finally xva« believed to he under control west of T’fica in Ness c imtv. a dis t ance of seventy mile* At Modoc, in Scott ranniv. coven houses aro said to have bc'n burned. Dedg- U’tv maintained a lira guard all Wednesday night on the edge of the city. ''Fires were burn- Gc*. P. Kllaa Calles. military goy- ern»,r (f Sonora, received a telegram Friday from Gen. Enriques, military governor of Chihuahua, stating that fixe columns of Carranza troops were rlosing In on \ Ilia and hi* bandit* newt .Namlqulp* and ttxat, with the aid of the Ayicrlcan*. Il wa* belieted tlmt \ III* could not c*ra|ir. Gen Enriques also* telegraphed that the reporta con>erning the re volt cf Gen. Ilerrere were false and were n ad* by the “r dieala” to cause trouble between the Carranza gov ernment and the United States. CAN T GET NEWS Transmission by Wireless Fail*— Villa's Friend* Cut Wires. The Washington authorities hereto fore have opposed such action on the ground that It would l>e misinter preted by the Mexicans as discrimi nation* against them. It la now Instated by local authori ties that the time haa pa**cd for any delicacy In handling the situation. It Is pointed out hat no American la permlted to enter Mesico armed and that there has been a far greater laxity on thia side of the border than was desirable. , The altnaMon In Juareg remain* mostly n subject of conjecture with auch Information aa la obtainable bearing a decidedly sinister aspect It la known that n bitter fend exlsti' between the mayor. Manuel Prieto,] and the military commander. Gen Gabriel Gavlrn. Prieto I* a staunch { Carranza aurporter. while Gavlra la j devoted to the Interests of Gen. Obre- gon. Carranza's minister of war. who I la known to be bitterly hostile to the] first ehtef'e program especially at It relates to co-operation with Ameri- 1 rane. Oavtrw'e Ironn* are Obregoa- • (at* and former Vllllstaa. Whatever may happen In Juarez there la no supposition that any at tack wonld be made on El Paso from the other aide of the river but there la the greatest apprehension that an | outbreak on one aide would be fol- j towed by an outbreak on the other, i In a total population of eeventv-one In a total poplatlon of seventy-one thousand. The military and rlvtl authorities have made vigorous effort* to fore-1 hstall trouble .by arresting every of the railway between Dvlnah and Vilna. Runaia officially announee* with Gen. Pershing'* force* and theithmt the fighting there rnntlnoes and satisfactory pro.-rea* of dlplomaHc that southwest of Lake Narorz the negotiation with the de facto govern-1 Russian troops again have advaaeed tpept served to relieve official anx iety. —. BORDER NEWS UNCERTAIN Mexican valuation Is More Confused Than el Awy Ttwxq, The Mexican altnailon was more mnfu«rx| ami umertaln Friday than at any time steer the pursuit of t'ranrtnrn Villa began. Pracll« rallv tlie only news rerrixrd on the border from the Interior was from Mexican MMtrrr* and this wa* of ■urh a directly contradictory na ture that It wa* Impossible to sep arate tlie true from the false. under a violentT>ombardment. , m T t MAY HAVE Cl’T WIRES Carranza Genrral Thinks \ Ilia ling llahled Trlegraph I.iae*. Following hard on th* new* that the Mexican telegraph and telephone wire* between Juarez and Casas Grandea had been cut, word came from Columbus Tuesday night In a dispatch passed by the censor that both wireless and ground wire com munication with Gen. Pershing had failed. The army field wire bet wean Columbus and headquarters of tbn expeditionary forces was severed In Karly Friday /ndrea Carrie, the| «w‘nty-eight places. It wae anld. Thn Carranza consul at Kl Paso displayed i trouble with the wireless occurred telegrams which he said he had re-1 thortly before eii o'clock but Itn reived from Gen. Bertanl at Casaa I cause Ja unknown. Grande*, announcing that Villa waat Gen. Gavlra at Juarez admitted surrounded at El Oso. a ran< h five I Early Wednesday the wlrelesa sta tion at Columbua was In communica tion with the He'd station at Camas Grande*, but after a few message* had been exchanged transmission failed. The field wire i useihsa. Mexican officials lave conccfied that the severing o^lelcgraphlc aer-i , vice between Juarez and Casa* Oran- • f ‘ _.i, trh nu i t « des probably was accomplished by a " f ' nia adherents which is quite bandit raid on the Mexican North- western Railroad In some qua-ters Tho most Important arrest was therzriias been a disposition to believe that of Meiehor Ilerrera, brother of ' Gen. T.uls Herre-a. Herrera was Se mites south o( Nan lqulpa. by the Joint American and Carranza troop* and that a decisive battle waa immi nent. Gen. .Bell, commanding the United States troops at El Paso, received this report in silence. Hls only com ment wa* that he would watt until he heard directly from Gen. Pershing, who Is leading the punitive expedi tion. before making any statement on the situation. There was frank that he had failed to restore* wire communication with Casas Grande and It waa prretlcally conceded by the Mexican official that the cnttlng of the wires was the result of a retd by Villa forces on the retlroad. The extent of the raid and the damage done was either unknown or sup pressed. NEAR VILLVSOUTLAWS that Villa sympathizers may have cut the ground wire laid by Gen. Per shing in his march southward. PEACE RUMOR KILLED infiC'^ chnnM'S to wc<i of that place. Volunteer (Ire fighters worked ail right in variom places plowing fire guard furrows, parrying wafer and u=ine other methods to stop the flames. < ■ ~~ the north ai.d Officials Say no Intimations Have Been Presented to Authorities. . ^ skepticism among other United' Mex.can who wa* suspected of trett- army officers, although It was ...... ,n * fetiow countrymen aralnM that advanced detachments continued * astern, ap-, American troop* might have parently organized, ha* been carried reac hed Namlqulpa by this time, on for somo time, ha* been well •,«.». Nim-roo, h»„ W- (, R J||pFhJKF ViLLA- Army Aviators Go in Hight* to Dis cover Hoeing Bandit. Aviator* of the United States army arc reported searching the almost blind trails leading to the passes in the Sierra Madro mountains where Franeisro Villa may seek to escape after his defeat by tho Carranza Torres at Namiquapa. If Villa is proceeding In consider able force the airmen are likely to rested ns he crossed the Internatlonr 1 bridge after a conference with Gen. Gavlra at Juarez. According to the police 'hey havo proof that a plot had actually been perfected by Her rera and hls associates, to start riot ing in Kl Paso. Two hundred men were said to have heen enlisted ns a nucleus. According to the police, plans of Ilerrera anticipated that as locate him. .f ho has spilt up his The state department late Tuesday' soon m the riotfhg started large command into small units and its took cognizance of a published report number.: of Mexicans would join keeping under tlie shelter of the oak that Germany had indicated to the them. A ] and pine woods that clo’-'e both sides [.United .States that tlie time was ripe j The precautions sdopted by the the mountains the task of the j for tlie American government to be- military and civil authorities w ,> re aerial observers will become extreme- ! gin poace\ negotiations and that pot relaxed, They-were in part the !>'difficult. ] Chancellor von Bethniann-Holiweg result of Gen. FuBston’s orders that “ no ^ ! t’ OT1R m spying after x Dla ^ had intimated to Ambassador Gerard especial -steps should he taken at all forces, however, that the first squad- Lively Fighting Occurs In Lake Re- po,ntS R,on -? thc border to safeguard ^ A® AAu A® 1?'** RUSSIANS ON OFFENSIVE Tcndiing Saya Natives Continwe Their Friendly Attitude. Cen. Pershing, leading the Amort, can expeditionary forces In Mexico, has reported to the war department tliat he had reached a point near Villa a id Ida outlaws. It wa* in ido clear in the dispatch that Gen. Per shing l»eliexe«l t.ie troops of the do facto government xvere co-o|>erati»4 in tlie bandit hunt and that it is quit* possible Villa may he trapped. Offifials continued to assert that all dispatches to the war and stato departments Jold of co-operation be tween the Americ;, i and Carranza forces, and of generally favorable conditions in the interior of Mexico and along tlie herder. - One of Gen. Persh'ng's reporfis said the attitude of the natives continued friendly. Mr. Baker, in referring to this, explained that the department had no information to indicate that a single hostile :hot had been fired against or by the American troops since they entered Mexico. BOTH SIDES RAN gions Near Dvlnsk. vij'ue. , Tlie original plan of' the Verdun offensive was to 'break tlie line at Hint ro'Pt and simultaneously start two irrnjic offensives on points at each side, so tliat three force 1 ! mieM army. Tlie plan* have collapsed, and the worst-effect upon the Allied armies xxill Im* to straighten out the line. The alight advances made by the Germans mean' noth. Ing. - ’ ' ever to warrant such statements. ATTACKS NEAR VERDUN Germans Cain Foothold on Small Hill of Harcourt. There has heen live’y fighting be tween the Russians and tlie Germ-Vns west of Jncobstadt. along the DVm Rivdr 'and in the lake region b°tween Dvlnsk and Vilna. with the Russians generally on the offensive. . While Berlin reports these attacks as having been renulsed with heavy ]o'' c ep, the admission is trfadc that a German salient near T.afce Xarocz Infantry attack* northwest of Ver ge -('’rough at onrp and.-therehy ep- was withdrawn in order to escape the dun. pre’cedod by a^ vigorous bom veiop a large section of the Allied encircling fire of the Russians. Near Rntzltseherki, midway be tween Dvinsk and Vilna. the Russians have raptured advanced German trenebe* and lust ®o*ith of Dvlnsk, In the region of Novo Alev a nrir PV sk. have repulsed h German coiinter-*t- on positions taken at Veilkoles- elo. ' i portune,. by a-uthorizirig a flat denial ] American lives and property in view 111011 3re expected to pick out earnp- of the story. Tiepartmept officials-mf tlie disaffection of Gen. Luis Her- places, watering spot-s^amr in declared they had no advices wfoat- rern and other Carranza chieftains in * 01110 cases .pathways over the mpum northern Chihuahua. • , tains which the mhio trains can fol- low e l' ' The belief of Americans who are j ’ ' . - familiar with Mexican affairs was tha"t if the reported revolts In Chi huahua seriously shakes the power of the first rhJef it wonld rot be long before there would bo trouble Bothmann-Hollweg’s Friends Declare In Fonero; which I* tho headquarters * „ , He Has Situation in Hand. London Tells on Germans- ’ Gives English Axvay. -Berlfai WILL BE NO CRISIS the village of Malaneourt. and be tween that ■'town and the -eastern edge of the Malaneourt wood. The Fyerch can afford to lo«* two Iq-cn to every one that the Germans fr*e, • 'de* Wa- P* r lb 11* 'Yf~ li* Att tl rut. k were about <*qqzl_ palr\er by one hundred aliuatlon IJ. »vall little to Oer rr-rv The r ’ WWr Fighting In Galicia. The Austrian*, combating the. Rus- ’Wfnr- in Gaiieia ard the Italian* along the Austro-Italian fronts ap- p—* ia Aft C« now. destz numl id ahe mi'.*t emtalize them by tg Fren'h troop* in great ■any ird • 4* ^ -v . few BUM (*311 ftCfCMT * • 'fatal mod fc- La re* te4:«* of Gztltfeg a* »e*r ta tl* ‘r* be Wos W^e the Hetlieerei »•• rovi*' *4 or aosfrox for* * The arm v *wl If’Od mVl tKo Ixelllremit* I* 4 *n4 not be- rb ha* mo** Ru»'lan« Ta'»e Bridgehead. Pe*ro*fiad *ay* that tn the eapiu*# of the Austrian br-deehesd nesr the v-m*** cf M'kkslt-he tn G*Meln. e>n«t of i** 4efe» 4er* were ktlfad In baad-to-haad fghtfer. A her Ilii d! spat eh hays.frtonds of the imperial chancellor, Dr. v'on Beth- mann-Ilollweg, are all quite confident that he has well in hand the politira! situation connected- with tiie llsplaee- of the Ohresron adherents and revet "h^ns Tteeti more than hrkexx’arm to th* , , , Carranza authority. Tt is the native bardment. have enabled .the Germans Statp of npn obre-on an! its people to gain a fobtho.d on the small hill, arf> jj e ^ eV oted to his in- of Harcourt.-whigh lies just outside 1 tcrp> . t9 Gen. Calle*. the military governor mont 0 f Admiral von Tirpitz as mln- of Sonora. Is knnwrj to he an Obr**- fc( P r of marine, and thajt there' need ron •upporTet ind his recent attacks be no fear tliat !♦ will develop into a ucop tt e elentifiens and clericals, chanceljor's prlsis. combined with his propocal to con- Tiiov he'ibve the* rational liberal fiscal*—eil cnh<*'sslo'.xs granted by and conservative'rcaolution*. calling Huerta and Villa, have given omin- for unjlmited ti*e of submarine; lx-* force to tbe pec*t«->ert rumors against hostile ve**el* xelftr-ttei ex ■haUlinf 1»lr Hnm wlthrl thlLhe I* hat ttnlT »Bt^•A- ,, «f1 r an hut reotlon of naaselnger ahip*. may bo out cV.anee. . PU vmrIt Is 'i WiyLTUliJl »l U"W| W ItnUfa • '-♦ a.namher of •'K'-most truated f U *.ioo and a vo*e In the.RH-hstag officer! were Imp'icatcd with 't K e ; London reports: "Monday.morn ing four British destroyers]^ sighted three Gej-man destroyers-off-the Bel gian coast. The German destroyer* at once turned and ran 'pr Ze»- hrugge, chased by our own destroy ers. "Shots were exchanged during this -hort running fight- Two enemy. ba»ta xvere observed to have been hit. Out casualties were four men wounded." Berlin reports) “On March 20. off the coast of Flanders, a fight which was successful for us took place be tween three German torpedo boats and a division if five' British de stroyers. "The enemy 'broke off the engage ment after he had received several direct hit* ami he steamed out of fcight at full speed. - ' We suffered only —Important -r’.-— r — chief ! eg^’olt*. The nervnn .der ha* fner*.**^jl that many Americans a rof hls no’orlous that- tier would prefer a definite sunder ng o' reUttrns between W i«k t •en*toti along th* hop., trg'op and the dc facto'govemiaen a rootir.uanr* of tha •tUtlng sir o *«ch a*, axtant raakly aldiii c»t‘oq Murder* HD Fowr Daniel O. Patterson, formerly yardmaater at .V. C-. for tho Southern rallwny. enHf Tseeday shot aad htUod his low chib dre* and