New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1915-03-17
RUSSIAN ONSLAUGHT
ON PRUSS|AN BORDER
REPuLSfDBYcERMANS
Fall Of PTztmSyI Expected Within
Few Dlys--BlitEh Steamer At
tackled by German AeropI1ne.
GERMANS BOnBARD NEWPORT;
ALLIES ATTACK WfSTFNDE

Two Attempts of Allied Cruisers to
Approach Outer Notifications of
DardanelIes, in Connection With
Mine Sweeping Operations, Report
ed to Have Been Frustrated by Fire
From Turkish Batteries.
Along the 600 mile eastern front
great activity prevails and Petrograd
believes that the opening OF the spring
campaign is at hand. AL no previous
time since the war began has there
been such continuous fighting over the
whole front The official German
communication shows that in the ex-
IRENE south the Russians are again
On the Prussian border. The report
mentions a Russian attack on Lauga-
zargen, which is German soil. An
official despatch from Petrograd says
that the fall of Przemysl, a Galician
city, which has been holding out
since early in the war against the
Russian attackers, is expected within
few days.
French and German accounts of the
fighting in the west are at complete
variance. Each official statement an
nounces successes in Champagne and
near the Belgian border. Regarding
the battle which has been In progress
for the sput Of a, hill on the Lorette
Heights, both the French and Ger
mans make direct claims of having
won.
Smyrna Negotiations Fail.
Negotiations between the British |
and Turkish authorities concerning |
the port of Smyrna are said in Lon |
don to have failed. The vail of |
Smyrna, after a conference with the |
British commander on board his flag
ship, declared his intention of resist /
ing to the end.
A British steamer which reached |
North Shields reports that it was at |
tackled by a German aeroplane in the |
North Sea. A bomb fell on deck,
killing one man.
British Steamer Torpedoed.
Germany has scored again In her |
submarine warfare on British ship |
ping. The British admiralty an |
ianta and Fingal had been torpedoed. |
The crew of the Atlanta was saved, |
but six lives are reported to have |
been lost on the Fingal.
The lack of news concerning the at |
tack on the DardanelIes IS explained |
in a despatch from Constantinople |
which says that only unimportant |
operations have been attempted by |
the allied fleet during the last few |
Gays Two attempts of cruisers to ap- |
proach the outer Notifications, in con- |
nection with mine sweeping opera |
lions, are said to have been frustrated !
by fire from shore.
German Official Report
Berlin, March IT, by Wireless
Telegraphy to Sayville, n. Y.-The
German war office today gave out an
official report on the progress of the /
war, dated March II, and reading as |
fellows:
1.-The contest for the possession Of |
an eminence on the southern slope of
the Lorette Heights, to the northwest
of Arras, has been decided in favor |
of the Germans.
sIn the Champagne district, speci- !
fically TO the west of PertheS and to
the north of LeMesni1, the French
full attacks North of LeMesnil the |
attacks were renewed with stronger
force, and the engagements still con-
tinue.
French Driven Back.
I'm the Argonne the fighting has
not yet come to an end French |
forces have been driven back from
the slope to the southwest of Vau-
uuois, occupied by them. Two
French attacks in the LePretre For
est, northwest of Pont A ousson, re-
suited in failure. In the Vosges
artillery duels.
THE Russian advances against
Tauroggen, in Kovno province, Rus
STA, northeast Of Tilsit, and Laugazar-
gen in East Prussia just across the
border from Tauroggen have been re-
pulsed.
. Russian Attempts Repulsed.
Russian attempts to break through
the German lines between the Skwa j
and the Orzyc rivers, north of War
saw, also have been repulsed.
There is no change in the situa-
ton south Of the Vistula."
PrzemysI Will Soon Fall.
London, March II, 2:44 p. m.-The
Petrograd correspondent of Reuters |
Telegram company says in a despatch |
that the capture of the Austrian for
tress at Przemysl is considered in the |