The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-24
MASSES OF TEuTONS AT LIE
MORTE HOMME DRIVEN EAST
WARD BY THE FRENCH.
BIG DUTCH STEAMER SUNK
Russians and Italians Claim Advances
In Their Respective Districts, ard
Turks and Austrians Giving Much
Ground-Fighting in Egypt.
Latest War News From the Front.

again has been the net result OF Ger
man infantry attack launched with
huge effpctivcs after a heavy lombard
nent against French positions at lie
Mort Homme, northwest OF VeIduh'
The Germans, who attacked in serrled
masses, were driven eastward toward
the Bots des Corbeaux, where the
French guns inflicted heavy casualties
on them.
Around Douaumont and the village
of Vaux the big guns are operat NJ
with redoubled violence, while south
ward in the Woevre the artillery duels
in the Meuse hills continue.
In the Argonne forest the French
guns are still Smelling tn German po'
sitions northwest of the road from
Varenne and German batteries near
Montfaucon.
The latest German official cOmmuni-
cation making reference to French al
tempts Ito dispute our possession OF
the height of lie Mort Homme" has
brought forth a statement from the
French embassy at Washington that
the Germans never have gained foot
Ing on the hill, which the French still
hold.
The Dutch passenger steamer Tu-
bantia, bound from Holland for South
America, has been sunk by an expIo'
sion near the Noorhinder lightship.
All the passengers, among whom 1t is
reported were several Americans, and
the members Of the crew were saved.
Whether the ship was torpedoed or
struck a mine has not developed.
General Gallieni, the French minis
ter of war, has resigned because OF
poor health. General Rogue will sue
coed him.
A Berlin dispatch gives an Athens
report that British warships have bonn.
barded Vurla, near Smyrna, almost en-
tirely destroying the town and killing
a large number of Greeks, who consti-
tuted a majority Of the population.
AdviCes from Petrograd describe re-
markable progress in Persia of the
Russian troops, who are moving swift
ly over difficult roads and in the face
Of considerable opposition toward the
MesopotamiSn frontier, where shortly
they expect to be in touch with the
British forces at Kut-el-Aamara and
the relieving column under Generals
Lake and Aylmer. The Russi2nS are
now said to be within fifty miles Of
the last difficult pass, which will place
them in the rear Of the Turkish Bag
dad army, and their object is to cut
the railway to the north, thereby pre-
venting the Turkish army from reCeiV.
ing supplies and cooperate with the
British against Bagdad.
In their advance against the Turks
along the Black sea littoral toward
/ Trebizond the Russians have captured
additional Turkish officers and men
and two machine guns A British col
umn has attacked an advanced posi-,
ton of the Turks in Mesopotamia, bay,
0netted a considerable number OF the
Turks and captured others.
The British have captured the port
of Sollum, in Western Egypt, from the
Senussi tribesmen, led by Turkish off
GERS, with only slight resistance. Aft.
erward they pursued the fleeing tribes.
men and captured officers, men and
guns.
In East Africa the Boer general
Smutus, is actively pressing the Ger
mans, who are reported retiring south
ward along the Tangi railway.
The German crown princes army
has apparently paused to take breath
or bring up reinforcements for a con
/ tinuance OF the advance against the
Verdun fortress and its outlying de
lenses. Meanwhile the big guns are
exchanging shells at various points
along the entire line from Belgium tc
the VOsges mountains.
Back Of the German line, to the
north Of Verd;in, a French air squad
ron dropped 100 bombs on the state
at Brieulles and at numerous point!
around Verdun. French and German
aviators have met in combats in the
air with the advantage incontestiblJ
in favor of the French, according t
| Paris.
The Italians are keeping up thei
strong infantry offensive begun sew
eral days ago on the Isonzo front Els
pecially fierce have been the attack,
around San MARITIME. Here, Rom,
says, the Italians captured Dante de
Croviglio, the pivot in the Austrian
defenses, and in the same region
stormed two other places and seizec
Austrian trenches.
Lieutenant Colonel Jan Christian
SHUTS, the former minister of defens,
of the Union of South Africa, and nov
commander Of the British expedition