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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1918
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House Passes
Overman Bill,
Voting295-2
Unamended Measure Goes
to Executive After Long
Fight in Congress
Wide Powers Are
Granted President
Gillett Opposes It, but War
Plea Wins Almost Unani?
mous Support
WASHINGTON. May 14.?The long
fight in Congress over the Overman
till, empowering the President to re?
organize 'government departments and
agencies, ended late to-day with pas
safe of the measure unamended by
the House. It now goes to President
Wilson for his signature.
The vote was -95 to 2, Representa?
tive Sterling, of Illinois, and Gillett, of
Massachusetts, both Republicans, cast?
ing the only negative votes.
What opposition there was in the
House when the bill came from the
Senate began to crumble yesterday, and
to-day it hardly was in evidence. Sev?
eral amendments to limit the powers
proposed for the President were voted
down with little debate.
A proposal to exempt the Interstate
Commerce Commission, offered by Rep?
resentative Walsh, of Massachusetts,
Republican, was defeated, 213 to 87,
and one by Representative Longworth,
of Ohio, Republican, to exempt the War
Finance Corporation and the Capital Is?
sues Committee, was rejected, 109 to 61.
Not to Curb I. C. C.
Representatives Moore, of Pennsyl?
vania, and Towner, of Iowa, Republi?
cans, sought vainly to Insert an amend?
ment to require the President to re?
port to Congress on changes in depart?
ment, while Representative Gould, of
New York, Republican, wanted to amend
th* section authorizing the President
to establish an executive agency to
have jurisdiction over the aircraft pro?
duction, so as to make compulsory the
establishment of a separate aircraft
department.
Hepreser.tative Webb, chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, announced
that President Wilson informed him
that he had no idea of using his pow?
ers to reduce the functions of the In?
terstate Commerce Commission. In
that connection, however, he said the
President caJlerl attention to the large
number of experts employed in the In?
terstate Commerce Commission, and ex?
pressed the hope that he would be
given authority to transfer some of
warn to the railroad administration or
to other departments where their ex?
perience would be of -great value. A
similar transfer of experienced men in
the Federal Reserve Board, Mr. Webb
said, would aid the War Finance Cor?
poration.
Representative Fordney, of Michigan,
Republican, told the House he had made
np his mind to vote against the meas?
ure, but had changed his mind to-day
after talking to an army officer.
Former Speaker Cannon came to the
support of the Administration in de?
bate on the bill. Representative Gillett,
of Massachusetts, Republican leader,
led the fight against the bill.
Says Congress Yields Power
Both Democrats and Republicans,
Mr. Cannon said, would continue to
support the President in the war until
victory was won.
Representative Gillett said the bill
proposes to abrogate the powers of
Congress and give them over to the
President. No suggestion has been
made by the Administration as to what
it hopes to accomplish under the bill,
he said.
Under the bill the President could
transfer tho powers of the Civil Ser?
vice Commission to the Postmaster
General or the functions of the Con?
troller of the Treasury could be given
over to the Secretary of the Treasury,
ne asserted.
"The question is," he said, "will Con?
gress give up the powers granted by
the Constitution and delegate those
powers to the President. Will we
exercise the functions given to us, or
Will we give them up?
"We are here, not simply to be rub?
ber stamps and give everything that is
asked, but we are here to use our
judgment in passing on legislation."
Bill Called War Need
Representative Sherley, of Kentucky,
said that if time were not the important
element in war he would be in sym?
pathy with all of the sentiments ex?
pressed by Mr. Gillett, but that in time
of war decision and action are all im?
portant.
Representative Longworth, of Ohio,
Republican, declared the bill gives the
?resident the authority to restore to
secretary McAdoo all of the powers
Proposed for him in the original draft
?f the War Finance Corporation bill. He
?aid he objected to the manner in
*ni?h the bill was brought to the
^?F'tol, referring to Postmaster Gen?
eral Burleson as the "purveyor of
bills."
Mr. Longworth said the bill probably
*?? drafted by a clerk, and that after
|t received the sanction of the Adminis?
tration as a war measure it was sent
to Congress.
Proposed Changes Not Indicated
Just what changes under the law are
contemplated never has been indicated,
when the President asked Senator
vverman to introduce the bill he
??rely ?aid he needed authority to co?
ordinate the activities of various
?ranches of the government in the
PTO'ecutton of the war, and during all
-ne long debate that preceded action
H? the Senate virtually no further in*
V?!*tion dev<>loped.
There has been a general under
tM *' n?wever, that among other
things various functions now per?
formed by the departments will be
iL*n?erred t0 the w*r Ttade Board,
*** War Industries Board and other
**r agencies. Reorganization of the ?
fj^rttrmaster'a department and of the j
*>*p??l Corps of the army is a step |
walch i? sai<i to have been contem?
plated under the law, but which was j
set w'tnout waiting for Congress to
mt* *" tBe -???' was introduced, soon
***** the President had signified his
*W?sitfon to the War Cabinet and
Continued on Page 5, Column 2
Calls on House
To Punish Creel
For Slurring It
Treadway Asks Inquiry Into
Alleged Insult to Congress
in Speech Here
(Special Dispatch to Th? Tribune)
WASHINGTON, May 14.-The House
of Representatives was asked to-day to
take officia] cognizance of the slurring
criticism of Congress made by George
Creel in his Sunday night speech at
the Church of the Ascension, New
York City, in a resolution introduced
by Representative Treadway, of Mas?
sachusetts. The Treadway resolution
requests the Rules Committee of the
House to investigate Creel's remarks
and advise the House what action
should be taken in tho premises.
The slur was made by Mr. Creel
when he was asked by one of his
auditors:
"What is meant by a loyal heart?
Do you think every Democrat and Re?
publican in the Senate and House has
a loyal heart ?"
"I don't like slumming," he replied,
"so I won't explore the heart of Con?
gress for you."
In a brief speech in support of his
resolution, Mr. Treadway read the edi?
torial comment in The Tribune of to?
day, and declared that, if Mr. Creel
was correctly quoted, he shared fully
GETTING TO BE THE NEIGHBORHOOD NUISANCE
the opinion of The Tribune that he
should be disciplined for his gratuitous
insult to Congress.
Representative Treadway presented
to the House, some weeks ago, a reso?
lution, adopted unanimously, that a
report forwarded to the House by the
Postmaster General be returned with
instructions that certain "insulting
references" to Mr. Treadway, made by
George Creel, be deleted. The Massa?
chusetts Representative to-day .prom?
ised to press the present resolution di?
rected against Creel. Whether the
House will follow his lead is a mat?
ter of doubt. ... i
Congress is tired of Creel, but not
very venomous about him. The general
opinion about the chairman of the Com?
mittee on Public Information is that he
is troublesome, but not important
enough for strenuous Congressional ac?
tion.
Besides, as an important Senator who
has had one unfortunate brush with
the Administration this session re?
marked: "The President appoints him
and the President pays him out of hi3
own fund, and what is Congress going
to do about it?" As for going after the
Administration censor with the pitch?
fork of the new sedition act, another
Senator wanted to know how it was
going to be done if the Department of
Justice could not be moved into action.
However, there is no lack of com?
ment in Congress, some of it under
cover and open, on Mr. Creel's latest
utterances about Congress. Mr. Can?
non brought Creel's name into open
discussion on the Congressional floor
to-day.
Cannon Is Sarcastic
The Congressman from Illinois spoke
Creel's name three times this morning
in his address on the Overman bill.
The first time was when he remarked:
"We have some feeble persons in our
party. You have Creel." The second
opinion was more voluminous, but
equally pointed. Mr. Cannon had been
talking about tho generosity the public
Continued on laet page, Column 2
Allies Adopt
Liberty Motor
For Airplanes
Engines Being Sent to Brit?
ish ; French to Get Sup?
ply in July
?
Now Being Turned
Out by Hundreds
j Shipments May Delay U. S.
Programme, but Will Get
Machines to Front
[By Tli? Aisoclsted Press J
WASHINGTON, May 14?American
built Liberty motors may first reach
the fighting lines in France driving
French and British scouting planes. It
was learned to-night that urgent re?
quests from the Allied governments for
early delivery of the American engines
have been received and arc being met.
Shipments already have been made to
Great Britain, and there are intima?
tions that General Pershing approved
diverting additional motors to meet.
French and British requirements, even
if further delay to production of Amer?
ican machines results.
The British government, it is said,
after careful investigation of the
engines by a special expert sent over
for that purpose, has been pressing
steadily for some thousand's of motors
to be delivered for use in British
machines. The French experts, at first
somewhat doubtful of the Liberty
motor, are now asking for and will
receive engines by July 1.
Overheating Problem Solved
Difficulties with overheating, alleged
in a letter from Louis Cammen Read
in the Senate yesterday to make the
Liberty motor useless, are declared
authoritatively to have been overcome.
Radiator trouble was encountered, par?
ticularly when machines which had
been operated successfully in Northern
latitudes were taken South for tests
These have been corrected, it Is stated
and the lubricating system of the en?
gine improved to the point where no
further trouble on that score is an?
ticipated.
To support their view that the day
of delays in aircraft production are
over officials point to the fact that last
month Kaw Liberties delivered in hun?
dreds, and to present indications that
the output will be more than doubled
this month and steadily increased
thereafter. The output last month, so
far as known here, was greater than
that of any foreign motor, with the
possible exception of one 130-horse-1
power type used in F'rance. No high
power motor, approaching the Liberty !
450 figure, was within sight of the
American output. It was to reach that ?
end in quantity production, it was de?
clared, that the Liberty was designed.
Difficulty in Landing
Another phase of the dispute about
the success of the Liberty motor prom?
ises to be settled soon by actual trial.
That is its availability for use* in sin?
gle-seated fighting machines. Two ma- ;
chines of this type?one a seaplane?i
have been designed and built in this
country and will be ready for final trial |
at an early date. They represent the j
first efforts ever made seriously to
Contijiued on Page 5, Column 4
Mt. Vernon Bars !
Hearst's Papers
For Disloyalty
"American" and "Journal" j
Put in Enemy Alien Class
by Ordinance
MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., May 14.?
The Board of Aldermen adopted an
ordinance to-night, by a vote of 7 to
3, barring William Randolph Hearst's
"American" and "Journal" from circu?
lation, distribution or sale in Mount
Vernon for the duration of the war.
As soon as Mayor Brush, who is heart?
ily in favor of the measure, signs it,
it will go into effect. The penalty
1 for violation of the ordinance will be
! $000 fine, six months' imprisonment, or
I both.
The ordinance terms the Hearst pa
J pers "antagonistic to the aims and pur
' poses of the United States in this
war, and harmful to the best inter
: ests of this nation in the prosecution
i of the said war."
"The American's" recent revision of !
, the President's Memorial Day procla- :
mation, from which it struck out all .
expressions of determination to fight I
until victory was won, was the inspi?
ration of this action. The ordinance I
also bars from the city all publica- j
j tions printed in an enemy alien *
j tongue.
Alderman William Dawson intro- \
duced the ordinance. It was seconded
by Alderman Caygill, wno rcrcrred to
the expurgation of Mr. Wilson's proc?
lamation as "something no red-blooded
American can brook."
I
Proclamation Decides Board
Two of the aldermen who voted
against the measure represent German
districts of Mount Vernon. The third
opposed it because, he said, he doubt?
ed its legality.
"It was the Hearst treatment of the
President's message, that decided the
board upon immediate action." Mr.
Caygill said. "We had discussed tho
matter at a meeting as a committee
of the whole on Monday night. Since
then representatives of the Hearst pa?
pers have flocked hero and have used
every possible influence to kill the or?
dinance. Several members of the board
were undecided when we met to-night.
Mr. Dawson read to them the entire
Memorial Day proclamation and then
the Hearst edition of it. That was
enough. We passed the measure."
Durinc; the day at his New York j
office Mr. Caygill received numerous
telephone calls from men that he knows |
in the Hearst employ urging him to drop
his support of the ordinance. Other!
members of the board had similar ex
periences. . The ordinance will go at
once to Mayor Brush, who has an
nounced that he will sign it.
Text of the Ordinance
The text of the ordinance follows:
"Whereas, newspapers and other pub?
lications printed in the language of our!
alien enemies, or, if printed in the Eng
lish language, contain matter which In
word or spirit is antagonistic to the |
aims, objects and purposes of the i
United States in this war and harmful
to the best interests of this nation in
prosecuting said war; and,
"Wherea;-, All newspapers and pub?
lications which have been or hereafter
may be printed in the German lan?
guage, together with certain publica;
tions known as 'The New York Amen
Continued on last page, Column 3
British Repel Blow on Somme;
French Lose Hill NearKemmel;
Allies Prepare for Long Battle
Hit Without !
Pause, Is New
Plan of Foe
i_
Ludendorff Expected to
Smash Continuously on
AH Fronts
Teuton Calculations
Include Americans
While Allies Are Confident,
Man-Power Problem Is
Vital Issue
By Arthur S. Draper
(Special Cable to The Tribune)
LONDON, May 14.?A few weeks
hence we shall know whether peace
will come this year or whether the
war will stretch out over many years.
Super-optimists already pretend to J
see signs of the collapse of the
enemy, militarily, economically and
financially, but those best informed
on the general conditions within the
German Empire look for a long, des?
perate struggle.
America is the salvation of the
grand alliance. Although the Ger?
mans are preparing another power- \
ful drive against the British, their ;
calculations go much further, and in- !
elude the Americans.
Germany is expected to hit harder j
and longer this time than she did at i
the beginning of the campaign. Her
first drive was a, big gamble. H^r
second -effort will have less qf the
element of chance in it and will de?
pend more upon superior weight.
Foe to Use New Tactics
Ludendorff will hit differently in
May than he did in March. His
strategy now will be different from
what it was two months ago, when
the weather was always likely to
prove his enemy. In March and
April he hit wildly because he fig?
ured on a lucky knockout blow. In
May and June he will slug continu?
ously in the hope of v/eakening tho j
Allied defence.
Not alone Britain, but France and
Italy as well, will feel the force of
the enemy's blows. Anything which
gives the impression that America is
not a tremendous factor in the war
at this very moment is extremely
damaging to the morale of the peo?
ples of the Entente. Great as Amer?
ica will be six months hence, her
strength is needed now. ?
Although the British and French
armies view the coming onslaught
with confidence, it would be wrong to
underestimate the tremendous blows
which they must meet within the
next few weeks. The man power
problem is the vital question to-day.
None can say what the next week3
will bring forth.
Ludendorff Holds Back
I The guns thunder continuously
from the sea to the Alps, with the
sectors around Arras, Albert and
Amiens especially lively, but Luden
dorff is still waiting. A possible ex?
planation is that he is holding back
until the Austrians launch their at?
tack. Another is that he hopes to at?
tack in clear weather.
The American troops will have
their chance. Foch, Haig and P?tain
only wish that there were more of
them. The next phase of the 1918
campaign will prove to be the real
test, and not until after it will there
be any thought of peace among the
Entente nations.
Speaking for the government, Aus?
ten Chamberlain voiced to-day the
feeling of the British when he said
that the Cabinet was not indifferent
to peace, but that it considered it
idle to discuss it now.
America will play a part in tli3
next test and even a greater part
thereafter, should the enemy achieve
fresh successes in the coming weeks.
?
Still Hopes to Solve
Mystery of Cyclops
WASHINGTON. May 14. ? Although
two months have passed since the naval
collier Cyclops disappeared, Secretary
Daniels said t?-day the Navy Depart?
ment still holds hopes of solving the
mystery, and has not yet officially re?
corded the vessel as "lost."
Systematic questioning of fishermen
and residents of islands along the route
the collier would have followed from
the West Indica to an Atlantic port is
continuing.
Germans from Rumania Rushed West
LONDON, May 14.?"Reports from Li?ge say that one cavalry
division from Rumania has passed through Li?ge going westward and
that more troops from Rumania are expected on the Belgian front,"
says a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Amsterdam.
"Orders have been given for all other traffic on the railways to
stop in order to allow these troops to pass," the correspondent adds.
It is probable that the cavalry referred to by the correspondent
belongs to the German forces which were operating in Rumania and
have been released from that front through the signing of the peace
treaty between Rumania and the Central Powers.
Anarchists in
Moscow War
OnBolsheviki
Groups Under Black Flags
Fight Soviet Troops
in Streets
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Sunday, May 32.?Fight?
ing began last night in the centre of j
the city between Bolshevik troops and
anarchists. The Soviet troops sur- !
rounded the anarchist headquarters,
over which a black flag was flying, and
fired on the flag.
The anarchists replied with grenades
and machine guns. ? Similar fights oc- j
curred on other streets. One of the '
groups, known as the "anarchist feder- j
alists," who were using bombs, showed
the white flag after a half-hours fight?
ing.
At noon to-day fighting was still in
progress.' ;
An official statement, issued yester
day, declared that after the occupation j
of Tammerfors, Finland, by the* Fin- ,
nish White Guard, 500 Russian /officerirj
and men were shot.
The Russians, it is declared, were |
taken to the Municipal Theatre at
night. The next morning they were j
brought out in groups of fifty, lined]
up- and, uiqwcddowu with machine guns,
the statement asserts.
The statement also contains a re?
port on the battle fought near Lahti
(the engagement reported by Berlin I
to have resulted in the overwhelming !
defeat of the Red Guard, in which 20, i
000 of the Red Guard forces were taken j
prisoner, early this month). The
statement describes the engagement as
a desperate and bloody one, and de?
clares the White Guards and the Ger?
mans lost about 4,000 killed. Many
civilians, it is stated, were killed by
the German bombardment.
Kaiser Saddles
War Burden on
"Free" Lithuania \
AMSTERDAM, May 14. Emperor j
William has issued a proclamation
concerning Lithuania, in which he says
it is assumed Lithuania will participate j
in the war burdens of Germany. In
the proclamation the "independence"
of Lithuania, allied with the German!
Empire, is recognized.
"We assume that the conventions to '
be concluded," the proclamation says I
further, "will take the interests of the j
German Empire into account equally I
with those of Lithuania and that Lith?
uania wiU participate in the war bur?
dens of Germany, which secured her
liberation."
Emperor William's proclamation, ac?
cording to the "Rheinische Westfael
ische Zeitung," carries the following
preamble:
"We, Wilhelm, by God's grace Ger?
man Emperor, King of Prussia, etc.,
hereby make known that whereas the
Lithuanian Landsrat, as the recognized
representatives of the Lithuanian peo?
ple, on December 12 announced the
restoration of Lithuania as an inde?
pendent state allied to the German
Empire by an eternal, steadfast alii- I
anee, and by conventions chiefly re-1
garding military matters, traffic, cus- |
toms and coinage, and solicited the help |
of the German Empire; and, ;
"Whereas further previous political I
connections in Lithuania are dissolved, !
we command our Imperial Chancellor to !
declare Lithuania on the basis of the j
aforementioned declarations of tho
Lithuanian Landsrat, in the name of the !
German Empire, as a free and inde- j
pendent state, and we are prepared to ?
accord the Lithuanian state the no- !
licited help and assistance in its res I
toration.
"We assume the conventions to be J
concluded will take the interests of i
the German Empire to account equally J
with those of Lithuania and that Lith
uania will participate in the war bur
dens which secured her liberation." ;
Lithuania is one of the former Rus
! sian border states which the Germans
have attempted to set up as nominally
: independent countries under German
? influence. Germany is making every
i effort to exploit the states economical?
ly, but except in the case of Poland
lias not attempted to force the former
Russian subjects to fight with the
German army, as the Kmperor's an?
nouncement indicates may now be done
in Lithuania
m ??
Dublin Lord Mayor
Gets Passport to U. S.
DUBLIN. May 14.? The Lord Mayor
has received passports for America and
arrangements for his immediate de?
parture are in progress. This was an?
nounced in a report at a meeting of
the anti-conscription conference Held
at the Mansion House to-day.
The conference received a communi?
cation from a number of representative
Irish women, suggesting that a wom?
an's day be organized to demonstrate
the solidarity of the women of Ireland
against conscript;on. The suggestion
was approved.
Britain Tells
DetailedStory
OfOstendRaid
Vindictive, Amid Rain of
Shells, Blocks Harbor
After Losing Way
LONDON, May 14.?The Admiralty
has issued the following story of the
Ostcnd operation:
"DUNKIRK, May 11.?The Sirius lies
in the surf some 2,000 yards east of
the entrance to Ostend Harbor, which
she failed so gallantly to block, and
when in the early hours of yesterday
morning the Vindictive groped her way
through the smoke screen and headed
for the entrance, it was as though the
old fighting ship awoKe and looked on.
"A coastal motor boat had visited her
and hung a flare in her slack and rusty
rigging, and that eye of unsteady fire,
paling in the blaze of star shells or
reddening through the drift of smoke,
watched the whole great enterprise
from the moment when it hung in doubt
to its ultimate triumphant success.
Commodore Lyncs in Command
"The planning and execution of thab
success. had been intrusted by Vice?
Admiral Sir Robert Keyes to Commo?
dore Hubert Lynes, who directed the
previous attempt to block the harbor
with the Sirius and the Brilliant. Upon
that occasion a combination of unfore?
seen and unforseeable conditions had
fought against him.
"Upon this, the main problem was
to secure the effect of a surprise at?
tack upon an enemy who was clearly,
from his ascertained dispositions, ex?
pecting it. The Sirius and Brilliant
had been baffled by the displacement
of the Stroom bank buoy, which marks
the channel to the harbor entrance.
But since then aerial reconnoissance
had established that the Germans had
removed the buoy altogether and that
there were now no guiding marks of
any kind. They had also cut gaps in
the piers as a precaution against a
landing, and, further, when toward
midnight on Thursday the ships moved
from their anchorage it was known
that some nine German destroyers
were out and were at large upon the
coast.
Night promises Well
"The solution of the problem is best
indicated by the chronicle of events.
It was a night that promised well for
the enterprise?nearly windless?and
what little breeze stirred came a point
or so west of north. The sky was lead
blue, faintly star-dotted, with no moon,
and a still sea for small craft, motor
launches and coastal motor boats,
whose work was done close inshore.
"From the destroyer which served
the commodore for a flagship the re?
mainder of the force were visible only
as silhouettes of blackness ?- the de?
stroyers looming like cruisers in the
darkness, the motor boats like de?
stroyers and the coastal boats showing
themselves as racing hillocks of foam.
"From Dunkirk a sudden brier* flurry
of gunfire announced that German air?
planes were about. They were actually
en the way to visit Calais, and over
the invisible coast of Flanders the
summer lightning of restless artillery
rose and fell monotonously.
Doomed Ship Steams Pant
" 'There's the Vindictive.'
The muffled seamen and marines
standing by th? torpedo tubes and guns
turned at that tame to gaze at the
great black ship seen mistily through
the screening smoke from the destroy?
ers' funnels, plodding silently to her
goal and end.
"Photographs had made familiar that
high-sided profile, her tall funnels
with Zeebrugge scars, always with the
background of the pier at Dover, ;
against which she lay to be fitted for ;
her last task. Now was added to her
the environment of night and sea and
the greatness of the tragedy of her
mission.
"She recedfcd into the night astern,
as a destroyer raced on to lay a light
buoy that was to be her guide, and
those on board saw her no more. She j
passed th3rce into the hands of the '?
small craft whose mission was to guide ;
her, light her and hide her in the
clouds of a tinoke screen.
"There was no prelim'nary bombard
ment of the harbor and batteries, as
before the previous attempt. That was
to be the first element in the surprise.
A timetable had been laid down for
every stage of the operation, and the
staff work beforehand even included '
Srecise brders for laying the smoke ,
arrage, with plans calculated for
every direction of the wind.
Monitors Await Signals
"Monitors, anchored in firing posi- '
tions far seaward, awaited the signal. ;
The great sea batteries of the Royal
Marine Artillery in Flanders, among
the largest guns that were ever placed j
on land mountings, stood by likewise
to neutralize the big German artillery!
along the coast, and the airmen, who
were to collaborate with an aerial bom
Continued on Page 4, Column 5
Terrifie Fight
For Mastery
Of Heights
Still Rages
Petain's Men, Forced
to Give Ground, Take
Heavy Toll of Ene?
my Dead
Teutons Blocked
By Australians
Haig's Force? Retreat
Before Heavy Attack,
Rally and Regain
Positions
A member of the German Reichstag
interviewed by a representative o
the Copenhagen newspaper "Poli
tiken," admitted that the Germai
drive thus far has been a failure
owing to the heavy losses, an
said that the army was now awah
\ ing more artillery. He declare
that Germany still expects to driv
through to the English Channi
and force peace.
Attacking to prevent the Allies froi
outflanking them at Mount Ken
mel, in the sector south of Ypre
j the Germans have retaken Hill A
from the. French. A hard strugg
! continues on the ajoncs, of t?
height.
\ Near Morlancourt, on the Bra;
j Corbie road east of Amiens, tl
Germans launched a blow at tl
British line over a one-mile fror
They penetrated at one point, bi
were completely driven out by tl
Australians in a counter attac
Haig reported last night.
| Before Ypres, on the Somme, ai
along the southern battlefron
there were heavy artillery due
j Observers report that the ener
is continuing his preparations f
a great new drive on Amiens. 1
j tween La Bass?e and Montdidii
, Austrian troops attacked the new
won Italian positions on Mor
Corno, east of Lake Garda, a ai
ond time yesterday, Out w?
driven back. Along the Ita'.i
mountain front the artillery du
are continuing.
! A dispatch from Amsterdam repc
that traffic nas been held up
allow the passasre of Gerrr
forces from Roumania throt
Li?ge en route to the battlefri
in France. One cavalry divis
already hac paf?c-d.
\Hill44,No~r7hof
Kemmel, Is Again
In Enemy's Ham
illy The A5AOC??.U.C1 I'r**..]
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
FRANCK, May 14. Hill 44, a small
important elevation near the Vj
! River, north of Kemmel, about wl
such sanguinary conflicts have I
; waged since May 8, appeared to-da
I bo in the hands of the Germans ag
The enemy began an assault yes
day morning and gained a hold on
position, and at latest reports was
clinging tenaciously to the rug
slopes, although the hard hit
French had been pressing the inva
vigorously.
Hill 41 has been one *>f the !
hotly contested points on the nortl
battlefield.
British Rallied
When the Germans attacked bet>
La Clytte and Voormezeele on Mi
the British were holding the eleva
.Strong enemy forces centred a <
against this point, and after b
lighting captured it. Their ten
was brief, however, for the Britis
a smashing counter thru?t hurled
graycoatg back. Throughout hour
intense conflict the British hung t<
shell pitted crest, but the folio
day the enemy organized such h
counter attacks that the defer
were once more forced to fall bacl
hind the hill.
The Germans retained the deft
until the day when the French
?sent in for a counter attack. The
lus stormed and retook the hill
brilliant operation, which also resi
in the capture of Godoer.one*Far
strong position to the east.
It was a foregone conclusion
the Allied claim to Hill. 44 coulc
go undisputed, since it domin?t
considerable stretch of territorv li
valleys of the sluggish little Ke
beek, Willebcck um\ Yyvcibeek.
Open With Heavy Guns
Yesterday morning the enemy
ried out a local bombardment :
th? hill, ?'id followed th-* by a <
mined attack. t Ine Freuen op<
