The Penn's Grove record., 1916-04-21
RUSSIANS INVEST TREBROND PORT
TURKISH CAPITAL RAIDED BY AEROS
FRENCH COUNTERATTACK GERMANS
A~ustrians and Italians ~FevershIy Concentrate Guns for
New Smash on lsonzO - Spring Floods Isolate
Commands of Gar and Kaiser in Russia
HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES IN NEW ATTACK ON vERDuN

London.-The Russians are investing
the important fortified town of
lreplzond, on the Black Sea, often
called by the military experts the key
to the back door of Constantinople.
their army, in cooperation with a
Meet, having captured the town of
Surmenek and pushed westward to
Arsene Kelessi, less than twelve miles
from the fortress.
n battle for Verdun was marked
by another powerful infantry attack
by the Germans in which two diyi.
sions were hurled against the French
positions extending from the River
Mouse to Douaumont, only to be
crumpled back except in a small part
OF the Chauffeur wood, where they
gained a footing and held it.
Big losses were inflicted on the at
lacking forces along a battle front of
Two and a half miles. Terrific bonn
bardments continue, evidently in prep
aration for further infantry move
ments on a great scale.
On the British front in Belgium and
France the heavy commandments by
the British and Germans are IN
abated.' The artillery activity in the
sector between st. Eloi and the Ypres-
Confines Canal has been especially
marked.
The operations at Trebizond are
receiving much attention in the CAPT
tails of the Allies. Petrograd says the
Russians are looking for no easy con-
quest there. The town has been heav-
lily fortified and reinforced with three
complete divisions of troops.
The Turks are said to be resisting
fur1ously the progress of the Russians
against Baiburt, northwest of Erie
rum, in the attainment of which the
Russians hope to join hands with their
men fighting in the Black Sea l%ittoral.
BRITISH RAID GERMAN TRENCHES
Paris.-The ninth week of the battle
OF Verdun, called by military experts
the greatest military conflict in all
history, opened with an infantry at
tack by the French, in which they
captured sections of German trenches
south of Douaumont.
The onslaught was centred in the
area from Fort Douaumont to the
Vaux %ravine, and the fighting was
hand-to-hand, with no cou taken
of the losses.
The Berlin report says the French
paid a big price for the sortie.
The advance followed one of the
heaviest bombardments of the whole
hfty-seven days of the battle.
The British troops going to the re-
lief OF Kut-el-Amara have gained fur
Their ground against the Turks, who
are barring their way along the Tigris
River. Pushing steadily ahead the
British have driven in the Turks from
their advanced lines on the right bank
of the river and occupied the lines,
killing many of the Turks and taking
a large number of prisoners.
The Turks also have been defeated
by the Russians in the Black Sea lit
toral. Petrograd reports that the Rus
slams have driven the Ottomans from
a strongly organized position less than
seventeen miles east of Trebizond, and
are pursuing them energetically.
The British report the raiding OF
German trenches south of Bethune-La
Bassee road. Berlin records the de-
struction Of a British position about
sixty yards long in mining operations
near Vermelles.
Three British naval aeroplanes have
raided Constantinople, dropping bombs
on a powder factory and ~aeroplane han
CARS. Another machine dropped
bombs on the Adrianople railway sta
rion.