The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-07
Germans Shift Attack, Carry
Trench by Storm.
In Fierce Counter. French Re-
gain All but 800 Yards.
TEUTOh DRIVE ON EAST FRONT
Artillery Leads on With Bonn
bardment Near yidzy.
Russ Forge Ahead in Caucasus
and Along Black Sea.

London. April 7.-FoIlowing up
sharply the capture of the village cf
Haucourt in the Avacourt-B -Bethincourt
salient northwest of Verdun, the Ger
mans have shifted the line of their at
tack slightly to the east. driving
against the lines between Bethincourt
and Chattanicourt and penetrating "A
first line trench there. The locality -
in the vicinity OF Dead Mans Hill.
where Germans and French have been
battling at intervals for weeks for con
troll of dominating positions.
Paris declares that the German
were driven by a counter attack from
the greater part of the captured posi-
lion and that they now occupy only
some advanced sections along a front
of about 500 yards
French Gain Along Meuse.
East of the Meuse the French are
continuing their nibbHng tactics and
report continued progress in German
communicating trenches southwest Of
Fort Douaumont
An interesting situation is develop
ing on the eastern front where the
Germans gave signs of initiating an
offensive Troop movement on the
Dvina front are prevented by the
thawing of the marshes but south OF
i
ed violent fire in the vicinity OF
Nidzy and in the Narocz lake region.
In the Caucasus campaign the Rus
slams are making continued progress
along the upper Tchoruk. in Turkish
Armenia driving the Turks westward
after dislodging them from fortified
positions. The Ottoman troops are Of
fering stiffer resistance along the
Black sea coast, attempting attacks on
he Russian positions east OF Trebi-
Nd hut foil fr7er to. e4fn
cording to Petrograd-
! Sink Big Transport
4 London newspaper dispatches carry
reports of the sinking Of the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental line steamer Sinlls-
$500 ton vessel, in the Mediterra-
mean. She is supposed to be in the
government service and the report u
her loss is connected with that from
Athens that a large transport of the
entente allies has been sunk off the
Greek coast.
l The Spanish ambassador at Berlin
has been instructed by the cabinet "a
ask Germany an explanation of the
sinking of the Spanish steamer Vsgo
and a definition of the German sub
marine policy with regard to the rights
of neutrals
Into an Ambush.
Paris. April IA Havas dispatch
/ from SaIoniki dated April S says that
a German patrol fell into an ambush
on the Macedonian front and that sew
sral officers and men were taken pris-
oners.
General Sarrail. the commander-in-
chief of the Franco British forces
will attend a tie deum today on the
occasion of the Greek national holi-
/ day, by invitation of Greek authori-
ties. the dispatch adds.
Honor Won Hindenburg.
Berlin April THE fiftieth anni-
versary of the entrance of Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg into military
service is made the occasion Of many
I tributes to the famous soldier En-
peror William has sent a portrait of
himself TO the field marshal Several
members Of the reichstag delivered
addresses eulogizing him. and news
papers throughout Germany published
accounts Of his career.
Holland Quieting Down.
London, April THE situation in
Holland apparently is becoming Iess
tense. Reuters Amsterdam corre-
spondent says an indication of the
change is that officers of the military
transportation staff of the state rail-
ways will be again granted leave.