1 fRENCH SUCCESS HI OEIIO !'«£«* « MAN'S HIEnMS COMPIEIE' •n,e Kntlre ttrrmmn Omta. ot Uie Put Two MonUi. Hue Iteen Wr«,t«d FYiim ■niem at One Htroke-------Tl»e Knonauua lium of Ufe W hich tlie (iermanji Ha»e Hofftrcd In Ttieae Two Monihi Hu Ilc-n Hencicml of DO AvaU. P»r.«, May S-The French aacceuei on the left bank of the Meuse ha»e been of itrealer Importance than In dlcated by first reporu. according to a semi-official sUtement Issued Iasi night The French troops, by a skil fully prepared

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... d brilliantly execut ed operation, hare thrown back the Oermans on the northwest side of, ment. The large number of German Dead Man s Hill beyond the line held | killed explain, why few prisoner, at the beginning of March. The en-1 were taken. emy has thus lost by a single stroke his gains painfully made by two months of continuous costly attacks. The Germane, surprised by the denness of the French attack, w... thrown back In disorder and suffered exCDptlonally heavy losses, particular ly from the preliminary bombard Wll-Ii BKTIRE FROM MEXIOfT lusve beeai rewcbed betwpesi >or-GeDenU Hngfa la Scott, chief of staff of the Calted Btetee army, aad General Alyoro Bbm-Kon. minlater of war la the de facto Mexican caMaet, was gtsiii aUy andentood today to gsortde for gradual retiremewt of the 6ENEIUL BERIRAM GEES WDIGNANEUNUERPREIB . Thai He HmI no InleriDe-OtUwa. May ♦-General Sir Alex SDder Bertram waa the lecond witnaif tailed before the Meredlth-Duff coswlaalon Inquiring Into the fuse soairtcts. He wss exsmlned yesterdsy sftamoon snd agsln todsy. Coming to the negotiations "wlth lbs Russell firm. Qenersl BerVsu could not recall whether he bad bisen presrat when the promise wss n^sde °J **** *"°^*~*'** *°**^** "Did you Bt sny time tell Mr. Rus sell or Mr. HsrrU. or did you ever beer Mr. Csmegle tell them and see Col. Allison If they wsuted fuse eontractsT" stked Mr. Hellmuth "What fiction." rspped out the wit ■ess. and Mr. Hellmuth reputed hli gasstion. "Never heard of such a thing," sntwerad General Bertram. "The sug-faetloB Is abhorrent to anything we do. Do you think I am s fool? bad BO Intermediaries at all A man who had a propotitlon had to pome direct to me." '• .'When finally the total for (he five minion fusee bad been placed ^ . bad been "mighty glad to get ri ,r He had been present later when Hessra. Rnssell and Moyd Harris had •» eems to OtUws and ^ ' appointment at not securing part of s the contracts. There had been no •cene. however. "We gave them eneoeragement that there would be fur ther orderi. They were diiappolnted. tbs same as hundreds of others. That . Is all. Commtaslooer Duff asked General Bertram whether, when he had given the letters to the American and Inter national fuse companies, allotting tbam the five million fuse he had considered hlmaelf committed to give the orders at the price stated -a minimum of It.*6, General Bertram said he did not consider him •slf so hound. Mr. Hellmnth inquired w^her, at My time General Bertram Ad heard that any commission was to be given to anyone In connection with the fuse eontracu. General Bertram declared that (Continued on Page 5 ) omA HOUSE Patrons of motion pictures know that there Is always some unusual fes tnre st thu theatre every Saturday •vraing and lu preaenting "Bill Pe ters' Kid" that reputation will be up held. It U a story of mining camp life with Mary Anderson and Wlllfirtn Duncan ae oo-sUra. The Vltagraph Company have produiEed a photo dra ma that win earnestly appeal to ev eryone who has lived In a mining town. The characters In the play were specially selected for this play Md the character Bill Petera It ehly. Uken by Wm. Bainbridge. whose por trayal of weitero parts Is always good Comedy and other films will lx screened along with this feature Sa turday night only from 6.30 lo^l ? WOlllD DESEROy SEIIPS If A BREAK OCCURS German. !n Amerlcaji Porta Pl«, tlir Dewtrurtlon of All Internal seta In the Kveni of • Ku|Kurr Be tween Germany and the l -S. Providence. R.I . May I Journal sayi: aecrel conference has twen certain club at New York, which there were present German dtplomalle representative^ and tain officeri of the German and A us trlan liners which are now tied up In the Hudson river. The pari>.ise this conference was to decide on i best method of putting all the self ntemed ahip. owned by ' steamship corporations out c ness ImmMIliely upon -H an order from the German and trlan consulales In American pr should a break In relations with United States come.