The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-02
Reports Russ Army Opposing
Won Hindenburg Lost
10000 Men.
CROWN PRINCE SMASHES
ENTRANCE INTO VAUX
One Zeppelin Destroyed of Five that
Raided London. Killing 70
and Wounding A.
spsaaI Cable to TSs Washington Heraii.

Special Cable to Ths Washington Hsrsa.
Berlin Cvia, -London), April 1.-The Rus
Sian offensive against Field Marshal Won
Hindenburgs army on the northern part
Of the eastern front, has collapsed &C
-cording to the official statement issued
by the German war office today.
In this offensive, which began on March
Is, and continued until March So the
statement says, the Russian losses are
carefully calculated" at 10000 men out
OF the $4,000 engaged. although this
half a million men was supported by an
unprecedented amount Of munitions"
The Russians gained no success by the
offensive, as to the purpose of which the
war office presents an order which it
says was issued to the Russian army in
this sector on March II. In this order
''the election Of the enemy from the
frontiers Of the kingdom appears as
the purpose Of the offensive.
London, April L-Swinging back across
the Meuse in his pendulum-like drive on
veFdun. the crown prince, by a mighty
night attack on the Vaux- Haudremont
front. smashed forward into the village
Of vaux.
New attacks launched today against the
ravine connecting the ruined fort OF
Douaumount and Vaux were repulsed, &C
cording to the midnight statement from
Paris. West Of the Meuse, where by
previous blow OF the pendulum. the
Crown Prince won Malancourt, the day
passed quietly, the Germans contentIng
themselves with consolidating the ground
gained.
German troops entered vaux after a
desperate battle, fin which, despite i'm
menseIy superior numbers, they had been
repulsed several times.
Their first attack broke down COM
pIeteIy under the French machine gun
and barrage fire. The second. in which
hand-to-hand fighting was developed. last
ed several hours before the first German
great part of the ruined hamlet stul
remains in the hands of the French.
One RaIding Zeppelin Wrecked.
One OF the five German Zeppelins which
conducted three-pronged raid on Lon
don's suburbs and the eastern and north
eastern counties last night, was de-
stroyed by the British gunfre. At least
one OF the others is believed to have been
hit Twenty-eisht persons were killed
and forty-four injured by bombs dropped
from the raiding dirigibles.
So far 1t has been impossible to COM
pute the property damage, telegraph lines
being put out of commission in many
places by a storm. The raid lasted five
hours. the Zeppelins flying over many
towns without even attempting to drop
bombs.
The wrecked Zeppelin was the LIS. IT
was struck In the stern by a shell and
Immediately fell to lower level. Slowly
It continued to descend until it fell into
the Thames Estuary. The crew was cap
tured and taken to Chatham.
That another Of the raiders may have
met a similar fate is indicated by the
story brought back today by pilot, who
had taken a steamer to sea- He says
he saw a Zeppelin, its back broken, at
sea. 1t was more than 100 feet long.
Were Superdirigfbles.
All five of the raiders were of a new
type, which has but recently taken to
the air. They were super-dirigibIes,
much larger than the Zeppelins which
made earlier raids on England. That
one Of these Dreadnoushts of the air
should be brought down by British fire
for the first time in the war caused great
satisfaction here.
Reports so far received make it GER
tain that at least seventy-four bombs
were dropped by the air invaders. Some
fell in the suburbs Of London.