, 1916-04-22

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London, April 18th-Sugar in stock on the
18Th inst. was 5000 tons. Last yenr
143, 600 tons.
Paris, April 17th-The War Office issued
the following statement to-day: In the Ar
gonne our destructive fire was directed
against the German works north Of La Ha-
IaZee. At VauquOis one of our mines blew
up a small enemy post with it's occupants.
On the left bank of the Meuse, the enemy's
artillery has displayed great activity against
our positions on hill 304, and also Against our
second line trenches. Gu the right bank Of
the river after Il bOmbardment of increased
violence against our positions from the Mouse
as far as Dounumont, the Germans launched
q powerful attack with electives of at east
two divisions. The waves of the assault,
which extended against a front of four kIlo-
metres, were met by our curtain of fire and
the fire of our machine-guns, and were swept
back save at one point where the enemy
gained a footing in a smuIl salient to the
south Of the Chauffeur wood. During the
course of this attack the enemy suffered very
heavy losses, especially west of the Cote de
Poivre and the Haudremont wood. During
the night Of the 16th-17th our bombarding
aeroplanes dropped % shells on the railway
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Etain and the enemy bivouac in the forest
of Spincourt, and S on the environments at
Neville aud Thillot north of VigneuIles. The
Belgian official statement issued to-day is
as follows; The artillery has been quite ac-
tive on both sides, especially in the regions
of Oostekerke and Dixmude.
Petrograd, April 17th.-The following i the
official communication from Army Hoadqunr-
tiers On the Dvino front the German artil-
lery has developed its fire against the Iksbull
bridgehead and the Dvinsk positions, and
also southwark against Garbounoyka ar
tillery duels in places to the south
ward of Dvinsk region were particu-
larly intense between Lakes Miudziola and
Narocz. In Galicia, in the middle Stripu
region, we successfully repulsed several hostile
attempts to approach our trenches. On the
Caucasus front, III the coast region, our troops
after occupying Surmeneh, pursued the re-
treating enemy and reached the village Of
Arsene Kelessi, eighteen versts east of Trebi-
zond. Fighting continues to our advantage
IN the upper Tchoruky basin.
London, April ~17th.-Army Headquarters
gave out The following statement to-day
There has been heavy Smelling about Voor-
mezeele and Dickebusch and also in the area
between st. Eloi and Ypres and the Confines
canal. There was some artillery activity by
both sides to-day about Hebuterne, between
Carney and the river Somme, also about Sou
chez and Noeux-les-Mines There was also
considerable mining activity to-day in the
Hohenzollern redoubt sector and west of
Vlmy. Throughout yesterday there was
considerable aerial activity.
London, April 1Sth-According to a de-
spatch published today in the "Daily MALI,
it is announced that the French have cap-
tuned the submarine, together with her COM
mander and crew, which torpedoed the
cross-Channel steamer Sussex. Accord
ing to the dispatches, the capture is stated