Arizona republican., 1916-03-27
AIR RAID AND NAVAL BATTLE
 G|VESD|vERS|TY TO THE WAR

"The enemy exploded a mine yester- day near Givenchy, but did little damage.
 Early yesterday morning the enemy sprang mine near Neuville-S St. Vaast and occupied the crater. Our counter attack took the crater, but was driven back later by enemy bombers.
 "There was trench mortar and rifle and grenade activity at the Hohen- zollern redoubt and quarries today The enemy shelled .Kruisstraat, Hook, Saint Jean, the neighborhOOd of the Loos-Lorette spur and VauX. We re- taliated by blowing up an ammunition depot near Cost tavern. "One of our aeroplanes which went out yesterday has not returned" The French Statement PARIS, March 26.-The official com muncation issued tonight says: Tn the ArgOnne we concentrated our fire on the lines of communication be- hind the enemy's front. We lombard ed revictualling conveys north of Ap- remont.
 West of the Mouse there was a vio- lent bOmbardment between the village and wood of MalancOurt and against our second line positions. No infantry action occurred.
 East of the Mouse and in the Woe vre the cannonading was intermittent. Our artillery was very active also, the whole of the front, particularly in the region of GrimaucOurt, where the fire of our batteries caused several eXplo- sions and in the region of Harveille, where we dispersed a large convoy West of PontA Mousson, the fire | of our trenches guns directed against | German shelters caused the explosion 1 of a grenade depot. .jur long range guns bombarded the railway station at Nigneulles- Les Hatton- Chattel. In the Vosges our artillery was act
 i've against the German organizations | in the valley of the Fecht This morning a German aeroplane was brought down; it fell toward our lines in the neighborhood of Douau-
 mont"
 The Belgian official communication I reads:
 Artillery action on both sides oc-
 cured on the Yser front | The Russian Statement. PETROGRAD, March 26-(Via Lon | dOn )-The following official com munication was issued today: Western front (Russian): In the
 Riga sector the German artillery has shelled Shlok and the Ikskull i bridgehead.
 | Tn the Jacobstadt sector the Ger !
 cinity of the Mitau railway, but were
 repulsed by our fire. There has been
 lively artillery firing at some other points in this sector.
 Westward of Dvinsk our troops captured an enemy trench and took some prisoners.
 l Desperate fighting continues in the region northwest of Costavy and
 Lakes Narocz and Vichnevskoie. On
 the rest of the front as far as the
 Rakitno Marshes there has been a heavy gun fire at various points Enemy attempts to open an attack
 southward of Karpilovka, westward
 of Derajno. were repulsed by rifle
 fire and grenades.
 Tn Galicia the enemy attacked one
 or our positions III the district where
 the Stripa joins the Dniester but
 here also was driven back by oul fire.
 Tn the region of the Upper Tchorul
 river, in the Caucasus region, oul
 detachments are making good prog , ress, dislodging, the Turks iron heights which were defended by sev- eral superimposed lines of trenches : Our troops also have advanced con siderably in the region southeast
 ward of Bitlis, in the Lake Van reg , ion of Asiatic Turkey