Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-04-16
WAR OFFICE CLAIMS GAIN MADE.
ON 12.MiLE FRONT NEAR
vERouN.
MOST. sANGyINARY, FIGHTING.
Opposing Forces Pay Heavy Price H.
Killed and Wounded In Struggle
in. Northern France Accord
ina to Statement.

choked with rnangIed bodies Of tho
enemy that the French troops were I'M
able to occupy them, the woods full or
dead and dying, are described in Of
fetal dispatches from Paris. telling Of
the terrible battles now raging around
st. Mthiei.
So friahtful has been the loss Of life
In the savage attack against the Ger
man positions between St. Mihtsi and
Pont.a-M ousson and Etain that mill
tary operations actually are being him
dered by the piles Of bodies.
London, April 10.-The Daily Tele--
graphs Athens correspondent Gays he
learns from oedeaghatch that several!
transports Of the allies, escorted by
yarshtps, were distinctly Visible in
splendid weather of Enos and that Il
was supposed troops were being dis
embarked along the Turkish coast.
London, April 10.-The comparative
narrow strip Of territory between the
Rivers Meuse and Moselle In France.
where + the German. wedge. has for
months past been pressing against the.
French line. is the scene OF some Of
the most sanguinary fighting of the
war.
A detailed statement by the French
war Office gives summary OF the re-
suits attained by offensive reconnois-
sances and attacks which the allies
have carried on since April with the
object Of forcing this German wedge
back and Strengthening their own lines.
French Gain Near verdun.
In that period of time there has been
q gain on a 12-mile front to the north
east and east Of Verdun Of from. two
thirds of mile to two miles; two
villages have been carried and the
French have occupied the heights dom
mating the Orne. small river run
ming east and west.
Similarly. according to the oficiag
statement. the French have captured
tho plateau commanding Combres.
have occupied the southwestern part
Of the ALLY wood. where the Germans
were strongly intrenched. and have
gained nearly two miles on dve-mile
front between the forests Of Montmare
and LIE Pretre.
The German war Office sets up coun--
ter claims of, successes, in, this4region
and declares that the French have
made virtually no progress. being re-
pulsed at various points.
Force Back Edge Of Wedge.
There seems to be little doubt that
the sharp edge of the wedge has been
moved back a distance and there is q.
certainty, too, that the opposing forces
are paying heavy price in killed and
wounded.
AT Epareges, as an illustration of the
German casualties, the French report
the finding of 1000 German dead ON
the field.
The situation in the Carpathian
mountains has resolved itself into one
OF position. so far as the official. state.
ments issued from Petrograd and vi
emma are concerned.
The Russian report is largely con-
fined to the western portion OF the Bes-
kid mountains, where the Russian
drive has had its greatest success. The
Austrian report bears on the East Bes-
kids. where Germans and Austrians
have been battling desperately in the
Laborcza valley against great Russian
forces which have added to their
strength the victorious troops that
had invested Przemysl.