The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-08

The enemy's advances east of Badon.
viller were repulsed.
Battles commenced yesterday In
the yosges west of Munster and north
. of Sennhein. have not yet been de-
cided
"In the eastern theater: Our opera
tions northwest of Grodno are pro-
. ceeding according to our plans a
Russian night attack on Mocarce.
I northwest OF I<omZa. was repulsed. rs
were strong Russian attacks west OF
Przasnysz.
Our attacks southeast of the Rawa
River were successful We took
prisoners 3.4oo Russians, and sixteen
machines guns were captured"
PARIS.
Paris. March THE official state
ment OF the French war once says:
! In Belgium. In the dunes. our
artillery has Aired very effectively on
the heavy batteries of Westende.
ITO the north of Arras. in the
region of Notre Dame de Lorette. our
Ecounter-attack have continued to pro-
gress At this point the Germans. who
employed large forces. suffered seri-
Gus check.
In Champagne, In the ravine to
the northwest. of Bease5our. Ger
man counter-attack has been repulsed.
Rain. which has fallen all day. has
caused q siacksninG In tho operations.
In Alsace the progress made by us
in tho vosgss ut the Hartsmanns-
weller Kopf extends over 500 metres
fahout sa6 yards) OF German trenches.
ION the evening OF March wa
repulssd a counter-attack opposite
Uffholtz. and blew up an ammunition
depot Mt Ce~nay Last night We sweep
with our fire the enemys advance post
VINO attempted to establish them
selves on the siliakerkoff. height
east Of Horreck."
The following officiai communiqus
was issued by the war ONCE tonight
North Of AYrAs At Notfe Dame d
Lorette. the Germans attempted
counter ATTACK. but wore unable to ds'
bouch from their lines. Later thel
attempted three other attacks. which
also failed.
I'm Champagne, west Of Psrthes
we have gained foothold in woot
which the enemy had solidly organ
lied and we captured number o.
prisoners. North of the same villaG'
we repuised a counter-attack. W.
, have gained ground on the ores
northeast of Mesnil-L.es-Hurius, ans
captured another trench north O.
Beausejour.
I'm the Conssnvoye wood. NORTH
of verdun. we repnlsed counter
progressed on the slopes Of Rechacke,
kopf, and captured some prisoners
At HartmAnnsweiisr Kopft we repuls
ed Ave nter-attacks."
The following note 10 appended Il
tonisht's Official communiQue:
statistics covering the aerial oper
atoms from the beginning OF tn
3 mobilization to January 81 OF thi
I year show the following;
During these six months OF tn
| war the old and new aerial sQuAdro,
made about 10000 reconhoiterinl
flights. corresponding to more thai
$4,000 hours Of flight. These fiiSht
represent A distance OF 100000 kilo
; motres. or. In other words. forty-nv
, times a trip around tho world.
} These remarkable results were no
. obtained without sorrowful ioeeea
which were Mt least equal TO, and II
I many cases heavier. than those suffer
. ed by other branches Of the army, o.
E far as the dead. wounded and rnissinl
| are concerned"
= The ministry OF marines issued to
day tho following communicate regard
ing the operations against the Darda
nelles:
The battleship Queen Elizabeth
stationed in the Cult OF Saros. bonn
barded by indirect fire on March
the two large works on tho Asiati
coast. which defend the narrows nea
Kanak. forts Hamidiehi-Tabia an
| Hamidiehi- Sultani. At the same tim
hattieship which had penetrated tn
strait continued by direct IRE tn
bomhArdment Of the works at Oar
dance ION the Asiatic side) and soua,
Dire on the European side"
London. March THE ofhcial pres
bureau Issued the following statemen
tonight:
For some time past Il has bee,
known that two to three regiments o
Turkish troops with the Turkish Ben
Lamu tribesmen from Amara on tn
; Tigris. in the Bagdad-Ba region
and contingents OF the Persian Ben
Lamu. Turufand other tribesmen hos
tile to the Shikh Mohammerah. hav'
been collecting west Of Ahivax.
TN order TO ascertain their number
and disposition reconnaissance II
force was dispatched from Ahivas OF
March q. and the enemy was located
at Ghadir, in Syria, near the residence
. of the Maronite Patriarch. 1t has
apparently been further reinforced tn,
previous day and turned out in grea
strength. estimated at about $4,000.
In the course OF our Withdrawal
tho enemy made repeated and deter,
mined attempts TO cut OFF the recon
noitering party and there were sew.
eral hand-to-hand encounters In whict
the attackers were held successfully
at bay. while our men made good theii
retirement.
From the reports received. sup
ported by the absence OF further &C
tIvity, it appears the enemy lost be.
tween 200 and 500 killed and from
500 to 600 wounded. Our casualtie,
were also unfortunately very heavy
Five British officers were killed ant
three wounded One Rri'ff' sold ~
was killed and FIVE wounded. Ont
Indian officer was killed and lou
wounded, and thirty-five Indiar
soldiers were killed and 1855 wounded
"On the same date cavalry recon
noisance was made in the direction o.
Nakalla. about twenty-five miles
northwest OF Basra. The reconnoiter.
ing party on starting to return II
camp were followed up by some L.
coo hostile tribesmen. These were
skillfuliy drawn on to a concealed
position occupied by infantry. ma.