The Elbert County tribune., 1916-03-31
PARIS CONFERENCE AFFIRMs A
DISCRIMINATION TO CONTINUE
STRUGGLE TO THE END.
RUSSIANS LOSE $4,000
BERLIN DECLARES BIG OFFENs.
I'VE AGAINST HINDENBURG's
LINES HAS FAILED.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Paris, March 3O.-The most import
ant conference of the entente allies
since the outbreak of the war was
held in Paris under the presidency of
Premier BRAND. The premiers Of
Great Britain, Italy, Belgium and
Serbia participated, and at the closing
session adopted the following resolu-
tioDs:
The representatives of the allied
governments affirm the complete COM
munity of views and solidarity of the
allies. They confirm all the measures
taken to realize unity of action or
unity of front.
They understand by that, at the
same time, unity OF military action.
assured by the entente and concluded
between the general staffs; unity of
economic action, the organization of
which the present staff has regulated,
and unity of diplomatic action, which
is guaranteed by their unshaken will
to continue the struggle to victory for
the common cause
THE allied governments decide to
main their solidarity of views and in
terests. They charge the economic
conference, which is to be held short
ly at Paris, to propose for them ap-
propriate measures for the realization
of this solidarity.
The conference has decided, first,
to continue the organization already
begun at London, of an international
central bureau of freights; second, to
proceed in common and with the
briefest delay, to seek practical means
to apportion equitably between the al
lied nations the charges for maritime
transportation and check the rise In
freight rates"
London, March 29.-Russian casual
ties in the present offensive against
Field Marshal Won Hindenburgs
armies are estimated in an Overseas
News Agency statement to have been
not less than $4,000 along the seventy.
five-mile front where engagements
have been in progress. The statement
says: "The fruitless attack of the
Russians, in which sixty of their di
visions have participated, against
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
front, are still continuing.
''The Russian casualties so far are
estimated to have been not less than
$4,000 on front of 100 kilometers.
"The German positions are SO ex-
cellently fortified and provided with
such a number of machine guns and
cannon that it is considered the Rus.
sian attacks are doomed to failure.
The German lines have not been
shaken"
Germans made another determined
effort to break through French lines
at Verdun. but were repulsed with
heavy losses.
Fighting between British and Ger
hold ground.
German destroyer rammed and
sunk by British cruiser in recent bat
| tie.
London, March 29.-The British
and Germans have been fighting
fiercely in the region of st. Eloi, just
south of Ypres, and the British
through the explosion of a big mine
and by infantry charges. have cap
tured OF destroyed a considerable por'
ton of the German trenches. The
British infantry stormed and took
| first and second line trenches along
front of 600 yards. London official
| ly announced, and Berlin admits that
German trenches in this region were
blown up, to an extent of 100 yarGs
and that casualties were caused
among the company occupying the po
sition."
Again the bombardment has be
come intense to the northwest and
northeast of Verdun and considerable
activity by the big guns also has
been shown in the Woevre region
southeast of the fortress.
The Germans, after a period ol
comparative quiet. have again begun
shelling Bethincourt, lie Mort Homme
and Cumieres, west of the Neuse
/ The Germans are making stubborn
resistance to the Russians between
Dvinsk and Wilma, but have lost two
lines of trenches near Postavy.
London.-A German raider has
been sunk in the Moth sea. Five
German officers and lis men out o.
total of 800 were captured.
Pence Funeral Held at Raleigh.