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Show east, together with some hundreds of' prisoners. In Palestine the British, having met i with a reverse at the fords of the Jordan, Jor-dan, withdrew from the east to the west bank of the river. Secretary Baker announced that more i than 500.000 American troops had ar- rived in France, and the French gov- j ernment announced that 200,000 Italian reinforcements were in France. In April German U-boats sank 3S0.00O tons of allied and neutral shipping. The loss in April, 1917, was more than b'00,-000 b'00,-000 tons. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. For nearly two weeks the Germans have been resting and reorganizing, and in that period they have been subjected to harassing attacks. Both sides are preparing for the new phase of the spring campaign. The allies profess to know where the next enemy blow will fall. General Had cliffe notes that the heaviest German concentrations are in the Bomrae region ea.st of Amiens, and indicates that the allies must look for the main enemy effort in that Bector. Whether General Radcliffe is right probably soon will be disclosed, for the allies look for a new Teutonic offensive offen-sive some time this week. There have been hints that the Austrians, aided by the Germans, would make an attack on ftaly, but this may have been camouflage. camou-flage. If so, the Austrian emporor aided in the deception, for it was announced that he had gone to the front. British, Canadians, Australians, Americans and French have taken part in the attacks of the last week. Most notablo of these were tho Franco-British reply to the German drive in the Ypres sector and the French advance ad-vance at Grivesnes in tho ilontdidier sector, although tho Australians made a substantial gain noar Morlancourt and Sailly-le-Sec, and the Canadians eon-ducted eon-ducted a big raid in the Arras sector. The fighting in the Ypres sector waB mainly on a five-mile front between Voormozeele and Locre. The British hold the Voormezecle line, and to their right are the French. The Oermans attacked along this line with the object of improving their lines beyond Mount Kemmel for the next big drive. They succeeded in penetrating the lines near La Clytte and on either side after an all-day fight. The British reacted vigorously toward evening and regained some of the ground. Next day tho allies completely restored their posi- tinny In the Locre sector the French made several attacks during the week, steadily stead-ily bettering their position, and near Meteren the British attacked with some success, also at Loo on, to the south. At Grivesnes the French made a brilliant bril-liant attack and recaptured the park east of that village, taking several hundred hun-dred prisoners. trOrman efforts to regain re-gain the ground wero frustrated. Near Albert the Germans captured some high ground which they needed to get them out of a bad situation, but on the following day they wcto thrown back to their old positions. While no direct attack has been made upon the American positions near Amiens, there appears to have been much artillery fighting and some skirmishing skir-mishing between outposts. In the Toul sector an American outpost was wiped out by a silent attack:, in which not a shot was fired. This was a successful German imitation of an American attack at-tack ou May 4. when an enemy outpost was annihilated. Aerial warfare is now the heaviest of 'the year. The allies have been bringing bring-ing down between thirty-five and forty-five forty-five enemy machines a day. Their own losses are said to be not nearly so heavy. Whether it is the enemy that is pushing the attack is not clear, but, at all events, the Germans are accepting battle. Presumably Pre-sumably it is an enemy air offensive designed to conceal the movements of infautrv which are to take part in the next land offensive. A blockading exploit which was not wholly successful was carried out daringly dar-ingly by British naval forces at Ostend. The cruiser Vindictive, which was badly battered in the attack ou tho Zeebrugge mole, wns sent into the fairway at Ostend and was sunk across the channel. chan-nel. The cruiser, which is 300 feet long, is lying at an angle of about forty degrees de-grees in a channel 320 feet wide. Naturally Nat-urally the blockade is not complete, but the British hope that, it will become more effective each day as the result of silting. The operation was carried on under the cover of an air and fleet bombardment bombard-ment and a gigantic smoke screen. The smoke screen was produced by destroyers, destroy-ers, and V"as carried by the wind inshore, in-shore, thus concealing the naval maneuvers. maneu-vers. Meantime, many British seaplanes dropped bombs on the town and harbor works. A fog during the operations, which took placo between 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning, interrupted the air bombardment and the naval1 moves for about an hour, but at. 2 o'clock the Vindictive went in toward the harbor. It had to grope around for twenty minutes under a heavy bombardment, seeking the channel. Meantime the Germans had discovered the foes, and at 1:45 had opened up a bombardment with star-shells and explosives. The star-shells star-shells kept the harbor brilliantly illuminated illu-minated and made the work of the Vindictive Vin-dictive more difficult. The cruiser was struck a number of times on its way in. and there were some casualties, but they were not heavy, for the reason that only a sufficient number of men had been placed aboard to operate the ship. When the operation had been completed, com-pleted, motor launches took off the survivors, sur-vivors, including the wounded. The Rritish lost one motor boat. 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