Show I FliERS CROWD SKY AS OPPOSING ARMIES WAIT D By Dy International News Service LONDON May Max Ia 18 I A AviatIon Aviation a again pa in was lie the whole show In the wet west during the tile thelast I last la t twenty four hours Again the al allied allied at- at lied machines up Ull In ill great lock flocks sent a alarce large larce number of Herman German planes crashing crash fh badii badI badly bad bad- InS hug earthward or winged them RO so O I ii ly the they tumbled down clown out of or control The British carried out a couple of or HUCe sue suc- e ful r raids south fouth of Albert and below Hulluch Bulluch Otherwise c there 8 no infantry tr try action of consequence Hea Heavy gun eun duels raged au all night and day Ia however er I and tonight's report from front Field Marshal l Halg records an Increase o In th the Krupps' Krupps activity this tills morning around Bre aux nine mlle of Amiens the first place Illace the Germans GermanI will have to take if I tile they mean to renew their frontal drive e on the tile bl big base hase Budapest via Zurich came camo late latr I tonight the news that Germany and Aus Aus- Hun tria-Hun Hungary tria-Hungary ar have unified their command on that theatre of war var This means It tt Is believed that Is now the central powers powers' holding the lie lieI I same ame position In the tho foe foes foes' camp that Koch Fochi holds with tho the allies I A hot sun I is drying the roads in the I west est making movement o of heavy guns uns Increasingly ens easy The weather even InI In- In I eludes clinics the th morning mists which are Lu- Lu I den orffs new pets for the tile opening of I Ian an offensive c There Is hl considerable curl- curl I I everywhere as to wh why the thc revival re I of ot the hat battle tte Is so 80 long delayed I j The Thc Berliner admits Germany German I ha he been n obliged to call up the tile 1020 class I and all other reserves es before starting the thc I I new offensive e I I i MORE MEN CALLED TO 10 I CUT SPRUCE FOR PLANES I By United Press PORTLAND Ore May Ia 18 Tho The Tho spruce production division dl of or the United States signal corps with headquarters here will be substantially increased In strength th The rile division headquarters received this tills word woi-d tonight from Washington i Demands for or material has 1 become so 50 great that the present I strength believed to be about ten tenI I thousand men men has become Inadequate teI te- te I Colonel Drice p P. P Disque was Informed I tin In Ill conferences with the thc new head of I I the tile aircraft production hoard board that the output of aircraft lumber must be I tripled r raised from ten en million feet a month to thirty million feet reet Whether I tills this means that tho tue force forC will he be raised led i to approximately men Is uni onI un- un I n i known |