AMERICA'S WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17320, 21 May 1918, Page 5

AMERICA'S WHOLE-HEARTEDNESS

IMMENSE ARMY IN PREPARATION PKESIDENT WILSOFS DETERMINATION

teirnJlATi REPORTS. iIZ. LOCAL OPERATIONS. Jtartnlisa and N.Z. Cabl* Aeeooisticm anA Renter. LONDON, May 19. Sir D. Haig reports: We made a sue-' ; eessful raid in the daytime on the Morlancourt sector and south of Hulluch, taking ' prisoner a number of Germans. The aitil- • lery is active in the Yillera Bretonneox sector. An American communique states: Hostile raids in Picardy and on the Lorraine front were repulsed, -with lora to the enemy. There -was continued aerial activity. A French communique reports lively artillerying north of the Avre, in the Champagne, and in the region of Massiges. A Belgian communique states that there is violent artillery fire in the direction of Nieuport, Merckem, Weidendreft, and Houthulst Forest. Ini another report Sir D. Haig states: Successful minor operations improved our position in the neighbourhood of Yille-sur-Ancre, north-west of Morian court. We made a successful raid north-west of Albert, in the neighbourhood of Hamel, and repulsed a raid north-east of Bethrme. (Received May 20, at 8 p.m.) The evening French communique states:, There is active mutual artillery work on the north 'bank of the Avre. NEXT GERMAN" BLOW. EXPECTED AT ANT TIME. Australian *nd N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, May 18. M. Marcel Hntin says it is reliably estimated that the enemy have concentrated 80 divisions for attack on the FrancoBritish lines. Lndendorff cannot much longer postpone the resumption of the offensive. NEW YORK, May 18. The New York Times correspondent with the French army states that the German blow may fall at any hour. There is evidence that the Germans have completed arrangements for their second great offensive, and have massed forces of picked troops.

OSTEND AND ZEEBBOGGE. HONOURS 'FOB RAIDING OFFICERS. PARIS, May 19. The French Government has awarded the Croix de Guerre, with palms, to Admirals Keyes and Tyrwhitt and 16 other British naval officers for the Zeebrugge and Ostend operations. GERMANISING BELGIUM. THE LATEST IMPOSITION, AMSTERDAM, May 18. The German authorities in Belgium have ordered that German be the only official language after to-day. This means that nearly all the officials most be replaced by Germans or pro-German Flemings. GERMAN NAVAL SHIRKERS. TRYING TO FORCE THEIR HANDS. NEW YORK, May 19. (Received May 20, at 9.25 p.m.) The Navy Department has information that von Hindenbnrg is trying to force the German navy to co-operate in the eecond blow of the great offensive.