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Show HIIIIIIH Ml Hindenhurg Line Breaking--Artillery and Warships Bombarding Fiercely I B ' GElffl AMES IN FRANCE i ARE SLOWLY YIELDING UNDER ill' si lire?' Trnuinir nnnnTninip i IB Iron Ring Most Either Break" or Crack Under Con- -: I siant Hammering Over Wide Front Counter ; Attacks on the French Lines Fail and (Prisoners Are Taken British Destroy I Ammunition Dump. Tlie German armies in France are slowly yielding under the ter- isi rific pounding to wlu'ch they are subjected day and night. In the d belief that soon the iron German ring must either break or crack, the rjsd allied commanders apparently have abandoned the policy of sudden "pj thrusts and are relying on a constant hammering over a wide front. er"i Meanwhile the latest news from Russia indicates that the crisis wes in that country continues acute and the menace that Russia may f3 either withdraw from the entente or be plunged into chaos still throws tiffer its shadow over the future. 9 Rumors persist that the Russian radicals intend to attempt to Sjlg- force repudiation of Russia's treaties with the other members of the eneS entente. !ujljj On the credit side of the account is the rising tide of indignation 1JHf against Germany in Scandinavia and Spain. The anti-German faction IKM in Sweden has been powerfully reinforced by the action of the Ger- adSj; mans in sinking three Swedish grain ships, in violation of their own $Ej ' agreement to respect the safety of the vessels. Spain is still awaiting I el a reply to her protest over the sinking of the Spanish steamer Patricio, also destroyed while sailing under a German guarantee, and the tone iSDJ r of the Spanish press is increasingly peremptory in its demand that Ger- 2a many be compelled to respect Spanish rights. 7i Last night's actions on the French front confirmed French pos- "j session of the commanding high ground won in the previous night 3 near Moronvilliers, in the Champagne. The Germans thoroughly bom- 1 barded these new French positions and then delivered several infan- m try attacks but were unable to shake the French hold and suffered con- 9 siderable losses. The French have enumerated more than 1 ,000 un- m wounded prisoners taken in the fighting of the past few hours in this U region. Ill French Repulse Attacks. PARIS, May 22, Noon. Three sop-II sop-II urate counter attacks by the Germans on positions captured yesterday by the French wero repulsed last night, ac-I ac-I cording to an official statement issued f by the French war office this morn- ing. The number of prisoners taken V by the French yesterday was 1,000. ( The statement follows: T "In the Champagne the enemy, after bombarding tho positions which we captured yesterday north of Mont Car-! Car-! nillet and at the Casque and the Tell Te-ll ton, made infantry attacks against III these three sectors. Ho was repulsed Ifj everywhere and suffered considerable III losses without obtaining any result HI The number of unwounded prisoners H taken by us In the operations of yes-l yes-l terday reached 1,000, of whom 28 are III officers. I- "There was Intermittent artillery lli fighting on the remainder of tho front. HI On the Vauclerc plateau tho artillery fighting was violent ( "Enemy surprise attacks at various It points were repulsed. In the course II of raids in the Gorman lines wo took 1 fifteen prisoners." I 1 British Successful Raids. II LONDON, May 22. "Wo made suc-I suc-I ceHsful raids last night northeast of lllil. Epehy and during the night east of I ft Bullocourt, south of the Arras-Cambrai tl Hi road and west of Lens," says today's llll war office report. 1 1( "Yesterday afternoon wo destroyed llll a large German ammunition dump on llll the Arras-Cambrai road northeast of S4 Queant. The shock of the explosion V was felt at great distances behind our jjfjr line." f Continues Strike In Budapest. llll STOCKHOLM, May 22, via London, llll I'O P- m According to information llll received here from a Hungarian l . source, a strike has been continuously If in progress in all tho Budapest muni- 5 i tlon factories since May 1. r Russian War Report. II PETROGRAD, via London, May 22. I Today's war office report is as fol- 5 lows: 1 II "Western and Rumanian fronts: Fu- slllades havo occurred. j Caucasus front: Kurds attempted an ' attack south of Erzlnfien, but were I dispersed by our Are." E It nn |