Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1916-02-12
HEAVY ARTILLERY BUSY
ALONG FRENCH FRONT
FRENCH KEEP Up STEADY ARTlL-
TRENCHES m FRANCE
ON OTHER WAR FRONTS
Teutons and Colonial Troops in West
Africa intcrned ~ Spanish Guinea.
Aerial Raids m Northern Russia.
Turks Are m Bad. Etc.

Except ON the front i'm France aud
/ Belgium. little fighting has been rc
/ ported. Paris tells OF the lombard
ment of German position near iI't
/ Sas and Stpcnstraotc in B,iuum. th,
/ destruction of a German hiockhoua,
/ between the disc and tho Nleuc. aut
/ OF effective work by French batteries
7 in the Artois and Champagne regions.
7 French shells ON the former sector
caused powerful explosions northeast
of Arras and a great fire ia the Cham
pagnc near Challcraugc.
The Germans have been busy with
their artillery against The British
around Loos. while the British in t.
turn have bOmbardcd German trenches
near the YPres- Roulers railway
For the second time during the wal
Prince Oscar of Prussia. fifth son Of
Emperor William. has been wounded.
While recent reports OF the actual
opening OF an offensive movement by
the Teutonic allies against Saloniki
appear premature. the cables bring &C
counts of various troop movements in
military quarters 10 indicate that such
an offensive is probably imminent.
Athens dispatches tell of continued
concentration of German. Austrian
and Bulgarian forces on the Greek
frontier and transfer of heavy artillery
southwark from Nish. Adyicos from
allied sources declare that friction be
tween Roumania and the central pow
ers has increased and that ROumania
has collected forces close to the Aus
tro-ifungarian frontier.
The British government has re-
ceiyed definite information that the
report that an uitimatum had been de
livered by the central powers to Rou-
mania is untrue.
Except on the western line in France
and Belgium and on the Caucasus
front little fighting of moment is in
progress in any of the war thcaters.
A large German warship has been
sunk in the Cattegat between the
island OF Anholt and the Swedish
coast, according to a Copenhagen dis
patch. The ship is supposed TO have
struck a mine.
The British are pressing the Ger
mans hard in the Kamerun region of
German West Africa. A Spanish Of
fetal communication says that 900
Germans and $4,000 of their colonial
troops have crossed the southwest Dor
der and sought asylum in Spanish
Guinea, where they are informed
In Northwest Russia there have
been aerial raids by both the Germans
and Russians and in GaIicia and Blu
koina small infantry and grenade at
tacks At one point along the line the
Russians found a system OF Teutonic
mines and. having fired it. detonated
the mines.
The British and French in Belgium
have shelled with destructive effect
German trenches at Baesinghe, and
the French heavy guns have silenced
a German battery east of Baesinghe
In East Champagne the French re
port the wrecking of German trenches
on the plateau of Navarin and the
blowing up of munitions depOts. In
addition Paris records the demolition
of asphyxiating gas reservoirs, the es
Gaping gas waves. from which were |
blown back on the German lines. At |
tempts by the British to advance |
southwest OF Neuville and south OF |
Labasse canal we're repulsed. accord |
ing to Berlin.
Petrograd SAYS the Russians con
tinue TO harass the Turks over the en- /
tire Caucasus region and that all at /
tennis by the Turks at an offensive !
have been repulsed with heavy losses /
to the O;tOmans
I'm NcsopOtOmia. near Felahie. small /
artillery and infantry engagements /
have been going on between the Turks /
and -.e British Kut-el-Amara, where |
the British are besieged by the Turks. |
there Is no change in the situation.
Sir Edward Grey, the British secre- !
tary for foreign affairs, in a letter 10 |
the chairman of the American relief |
commission, has expressed the fear |
that il will be impossible 10 enter into !
anv arrangement for relief for Poland |
until the German and Austrian govern |
nents have prohibited the export OF !
all foodstuffs from Russian Poland |
and given guarantees that native |
stocks of foodstuffs shall not be- |
drawn upon TO maintain the armies of |
occupation.
Canada is enforcing a vigorous cen.
sorship. and the chief Canadian press |
censor has sent out a request that all |
Canadian editors use discretion in |
nublishing alarmist and unsupported |
reports Of incendiarism by enemies"
According to Washington dispatches
the outlook for an early settlement OF |
the Lusitania case is again promising, /
in the opinion Of diplomatic officials