Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — TODAY’S WAR NEWS [ARTICLE]

TODAY’S WAR NEWS

British Send Forty German Planes to Ground. Taking advantage of the clear skies yesterday, the British airmen claim to have sent forty German planes crashing to the ground, some of them from a height of more than fifteen thousand feet. This is a new and marvelous record for the British Royal Flying Corps. It is all the more remarkable when it is realized that but two Brjjish machines are missing. The daring of some of the British flyers was truly wonderful and the damage to the Germans was very great. Great Battle of Arras Continues. Realizing that the battle on the west front may be the decisive battle of the war, the Germans are making a desperate stand and effort to stop the advance of the Entente Allies. The German resistance grows more determined but in spite of the addition of reinforcements in large numbers, theßritish are still able to make considerable advancement. The loss of life is dreadful and the Germans seem to be willing to pay any price in the number of men sacrificed in order to hold out.

Mission to Russia. President Wilson has decided that the personnel of the American commission to Russia, it is understood, will be Elihu Root, Charles R. Crane, Professor Harper, of Chicago University, and Theodore Roosevelt.