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Show GREAT BATTLES ARE RAGING I , . a '. , H vt" Four Tremendous Assaults Launched Against French Meet Repulse I DESPERA1E ATTEMPTS TO PUSH i BACK PETAIN'S FORCES BEING ' 1 MADE BY TIE CROWN PRINCE II French Hold Line Intact Under Successive Severe I Blows -Extremely Violent Bombarding With I Big Guns and Liberal Use of Gas Shells JJL Made by GermansItalians Occupy if Abanian Villages. in Desperate attempts by the Germans to push back the French f j from the vantage ground won in the recent attacks by Gen. Petain's : ! I forces in the Champagne region have been renewed. ( j As a whole the French line remained intact under the successive severe blows dealt it early today in a sustained effort of an extremely I violent and sanguinary character, gas shells being liberally employed. The front was dented at only one point and this but slightly, the crown prince's troops gaining a footing in some advanced trenches j ; northeast of Mont Haut. J j j At the Teton, the Casque, at positions northwest of Auberive and . at Mont Blond, on the front against which the attacks were launched, i the net German gain was nil, the valuable ground which the French f need for the pushing of a further offensive, particularly for observation observa-tion purposes, being retained intact Along the British line in France the comparative quiet continues, broken only by trench raids. Increased artillery activity from the Arras battle front, however, is reported today, the big guns on both .cides having started up again in somewhat lively fashionjieai' BuUe-K court and further north along the Scarpe east of Arras. British losses of men in the Arras battle are reflected in the figures fig-ures of casualties published during May, which total 1 1 2,233, including includ-ing 5,902 officers. The political situation in Spain is being closely watched, particularly particu-larly in view of today's newspaper announcement in Madrid that the constitutional guarantees would shortly again be suspended. Former Premier Romanones is quoted as declaring that conditions in the country, coun-try, which is kno to be suffering keenly in a general economic way from the war, as well as directly from submarine sinkings, were be-1 coming graver every hour. He considered the recent great meeting of pro-ally sympathizers as of enormous importance and as perhaps likely to -exercise "a greater influence on foreign than on home policies." Ij ITALIANS OCCUPY VILLAGES. '. ROME, May 31, via London, 4:46 p. m. Italian troops in Al- I j bania have occupied the villages of Cerevoda, Velisest, Osoja and Cafa, ( the war office announced today. IK The towns occupied by the Italians ii. aro m the central part of southern Al- r,JS bania. This extension of the Macedonian Mace-donian front westward to Avlona on the Adriatic has been long held by the Italian forces. Their advanco is reclaiming re-claiming more of Albania from Austrian Aus-trian Influence. Prizes for Gunners. NICE, May 31, 12:10 a. m. H. W. Barol, an American resident here, has given 125,000 francs to the ministry of marine as prizes for ofQcers and gunners on merchantmen who sink submarines. The money is to. bo distributed dis-tributed In prizes of 5000 francs. British Socialists Expected. STOCKHOLM, via London, May 31, 7 a. m. The Dutch and Scandinavian Socialist commltteo has been Informed that the British Labor-Socialist organization organ-ization will send representatives to the Stockholm conference. G. H. Roberts and Ramsay MacDonald, Labor members mem-bers of parliament, aro expected. Emperor at Doual. COPENHAGEN", via London. May 31. The .German emperor, on his ro-cent ro-cent visit to tho western front, was received at Douai by General Von Below. Goneral Von Below was for-merly for-merly in command of tho German SV forces on tho Monastir front and has recently been brought across Europe to command one of the armies on the feMY Arras front Si tnj Dutch Steamer Seized. m AMSTERDAM, May 31. via London, B, 10:50 a. m. According to the Maasbod HH the Dutch steamer Pomona, bound fy from Copenhagen to Amsterdam, has Mh, been taken into Swincmunde. Tho Hft Pomona is a small vessol of 786 tons H ( owned in Amsterdam. |