| Summary: | with. United States threatens counter reprisals. April 21—The Germans claim to have taken 183 men, including 5 officers and 25 machine guns; Gen. Pershing estimates German losses at 300 to 500. —Paris reports that since long range bombardment began, March 23, it has killed 118 and injured 230 (2 days' reports missing). —British airplanes drop 12 tons of bombs on Men-in, Armentieres and the Thourotte railroad junc-tion, down 6 German machines, disable 3. Large fires are caused at Chaulnes, Juniville and Beth-enville; 3 British machines fail to return. —British and French troops land at Murmansk on northern coast of Kola Peninsula, Arctic Ocean, to guard against attacks by Finnish Hhite Guards. Russian Red Guards are co-operating. —Armenians capture Van, in Turkish Armenia. —Guatemala National Assembly declares war with Germany. April 22—Baron von Richthofen, the leader of the German flyers, with 80 victories to his credit, is brought down behind the British lines and buried with military honors. —Bonar Law presents the budget in the House of Commons, calling for $14,860,000,000. April 23—Major Raoul Lufbery destroys his eighteenth German plane and Lieut. P. F. Baer of Mobile, Ala., his fifth. —United States casualties in France to date: Killed in action, 513; died of wounds, 104; of disease, 924; from accident, 192; other causes, 93; se-verely wounded, 419; slightly, 1,592; missing, 86. April 22-23—German destroyer and submarine base at Zeebrugge blockaded by the sinking of two old cruisers, loaded with cement. The British cruiser Vindictive runs the gauntlet of mines, subma-rines and heavy gunfire, lands sailors and machine guns and distracts attention during operations. A similar enterprise attempted at Ostend was not successful, the British blockading ships ground-ing and blowing up. British losses at Zeebrugge and Ostend: Killed, officers 16, men, 144; offic-ers died of wounds, 3; missing, 2; wounded, 29; men died of wounds, 25; missing, 14; wounded, 355. April 24—Germans attack in whole front south of the Somme, but are repulsed; in later attacks gain Villers-Bretonneux, east of Robecq. British retain their line. The Germans gain a footing in the outskirts of Hangard; are checked at Hailles and Senecat Wood; capture Viengelhoek Hill, and take French prisoners. Check Allied advance northwest of Bethune. —British Admiralty announces it will discontinue issuing weekly bulletin of losses and substitute monthly ones. It reports losses in tonnage since beginning of 1917, for quarter ending March, British, 918,840; Allied and neutral, 1,619,373; ending June, British, 1,361,370; Allied and neu-tral, 2,236,934; ending September, British, 952,- 938; Allied and neutral, 1,494,473; ending De-cember, British 782,880; Allied and neutral, 1,272,843; ending March 1918, British, 687,576; Allied and neutral, 1,123,510. April 25—Germans assault from Wytschaete to Bailleul; in Lys salient, French and British lose ground. Germans capture Hangard. —British sloop Cowslip torpedoed; 5 officers, 1 man missing. —French fight their way into Hangard. —Gen. von Risberg, Speaker in German Reichstag, states that on March 24 the Germans missing totalled 664,104; 236,676 were prisoners in France; 119,000 in England; 157,000 in Russia and Roumania; the rest probably dead. April 27—The French win back ground near Kem-mel and recapture Locre. —The British capture Kirfa, in Mesopotamia, and 40 prisoners; the Turks retreat to Kirkuk, are overtaken by British cavalry, who kill more than 100 and take 538 prisoners. —British Air Ministry announces that during March British airmen dropped over the enemy air lines in France 23,099 bombs by day and 13,080 by night. Germans in area occupied by British, 517 by day and 1,948 by night. —The French Government decrees 3 meatless days a week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. April 28—The loss of Kemmel Heights forces Brit-ish to retire. Locre changes hands five times; Germans get footing there, but are driven from Voormezeele. —In Mesopotamia the British force the passage of the Aqsu. —The British liner Orissa (5,436 tons) torpedoed in English waters; 57 Y. M. C. A. Americans are saved; 3 of crew are lost. —Dr. Sidonio Paes elected President of Portuguese Republic. April 29—British flyers drop 275 tons of bombs on enemy troops east of Locre. —In Mesopotamia, British capture Tuzhurmatli and 300 prisoners. April 30—British casualties during April: Killed or died of wounds, officers, 1,621; men, 7,723; wounded or missing, officers, 7,447; men, 35,864. May 1—Legion made of the Czechs and Slavs join Italians to fight against Austria. —British troops advance a mile west of the River Jordan, in region of Mezrah; take 260 prisoners. —Sebastopol, Russian fortress in the Crimea, oc-cupied by German troops. —Long range bombardment of Paris continues; 3 women injured. —At Versailles, Premiers Lloyd George, Clemenceau and Orlando, with representatives of France, Great Britain, Italy and the United States, meet in conference. —Gavrio Prinzip, Serbian assassin of the Austro- Hungarian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, in July, 1914, died in an Austrian fortress. May 2—Australian troops enter Es Salt, capture 33 Germans, 317 Turks; a detached brigade of horse artillery loses 9 guns. —United States steamship Tyler sunk by subma-rine in the Mediterranean; 11 lives lost; British steamship Franklyn and two others are torpedoed in same attack. British airmen drop 2 x /z tons of bombs on Ba-paume and other targets, bring down 14 hostile machines, disable 4, lose 5. Also drop 5% tons of bombs on Chaulnes, Juniville and at Caix, and on lock gates at Zeebrugge. —In Lower House of Prussian Diet Social Democrat motion to restore equal suffrage provision is de-feated. May 3—French take important positions between Hailles and Castel; French and British raid south of Arras and east of St. Denant, taking guns and prisoners; south of the Avre, Hill 82 and the wood bordering on the Avre are taken and over 100 prisoners (4 officers) a German attack near Ailette is repulsed. —British airmen bomb Thionville railway station and Carlshuttle work. —United States makes an agreement with Norway for exchange and restrictions of exports to enemy. May 4—Italian airship drops a ton of explosives on aviation ground at Campo Maggiore. —British mission to United States estimated Brit-ish casualties in Picardy since March 21 approx-imate 250,000 killed, wounded or missing. —Field Marshal Lord French named Lord Lieuten-ant of Ireland. i .'-:.' Internet Archive
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