Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1918 — QUIET REIGNS IN WAR ZONE [ARTICLE]

QUIET REIGNS IN WAR ZONE

Only Local Operations In Various Sectors. ALLIES AWAIT NEXT MOVE Confident of Their Ability to Withstand and Repulse Any Attack by the Enemy. Germany’s resumption of the gigantic offensive against the allies on the west front has not yet ma-' terialized. In various sectors there have been local operations which bave no bearing on the situation as a whole. But along the entire front there is a quiet that might be encouraging were it not for the fact that the Germans are known to be moving up men and materials for a new move in the mighty drive launched March 21. Field Marshal Haig's report makes special note of activity by the German artillery north of Berre. This little town Is situated behind the German lines north of Albert and marks the apex of a triangle, the base of which is the line between Hebuterne and Bucquoy. For several weeks military experts have been watching devalipments in this particular sector because it is the logical point from which the Germans may be expected to launch a great turning movement against the Arras sector. During the early days of April when the allies made a final stand on the line which they at present hold, the Germans centered their fiercest drives on Hebuterne and the wooded hills to the south and southwest. They failed to advance further and later lost ground to the allies at this point. The southern portion of the British front has also been under heavy fire from the enemy guns and this may indicate that the Germans aro getting ready for a new effort to reach Amiens. On the rest of the western front the reports tell nothing of Interest as revealing the true situation. Since tbe Italians captured Mont C’orno on Saturday morning the Austrians have tried in vain to regain this commanding peak south of Asiago, but have been met by stern resistance. Washington, May 13.-—Realizing that America and the allies have gained the mastery over the present type of submarine, Germany now is said to be planning a new series of big U-boat cruisers with which sha hopes to again assume the advantage in her unrestricted underwater warfare. Announcement of the new German scheme is made by Georges Leygues, the French minister of marine, in an interview, received here today in an official dispatch from France. No details regarding the new U-boats were given by M. Leygues, but from information from other sources it appears that the cruiser submarines will be heavily armed and armored and will be designed specially to .meet the menace of the torpedo boat destroyers which haye- proved so Successful In hunting down the smaller submarines now in operation. M. Leygues declared that the allies are ready to meet Germany’s new efforts and that they will not rest upon the "fine results obtained’’ in the past.