Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-04-04
ST TRA|CHT
L|NES;COMMENCE
FRENCH ATTACK
Battles Around Verdun for Mon.
day Were Practically Fav-
orable to Neither.
GERMANS DRIVEN
FROM VAUX WOODS
Survivors of Sussex Make Affida
Wits That Boat Was Tor
pedoed.


London, April 3.-Having straight
ened out their lines by occupying all
the French positions north of Vorges
brook, between Haucourt and Bethen-
court, northwest of Verdun, the Ger
mans now are engaged in shelling the
region of the Bourrous wood, some
five miles northwest Of the fortress.
East of the Meuse, around VauX,
there has been considerable fighting
between the French and the Germans
in which the French were victorious
in driving back the TeutonH to the
northern outskirts OF the Ballet
wood, and in reOccnpying the western
part Of the Village Of VauX, which
they had previously evacuated.
The occupation by the Germans OF
the Haucolrt- -Bethencourt front, fol-
lowed a vigorous attack. in which,
however, the Germans met no foe,
the French having evacuated their
positions at night without the Ger
mans observing the movements. From
their new positions south of the Vor-
ges brook and at BethencOurt, the
French poured direct and thanking
fire into the attacking Germans. who
suffered heavy casualties.
Along the remainder of the French
front, artillery bOmbardments have
Dredominated, although there have
hat
which the Germans lost four aero
planes and aerial raids by the French
on various German cantonments in
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Boats Were Torpedoed.
Accumulation by the state depart.
ment OF circumstantial evidences, in.
dicating that the SUSSEX and other I'm.
armed merchant ships have been at
tackled by German submarines, prob
ably will make necessary change in
the administrations plan for dealing
with the broad question of submarine
warfare and the arming of merchant
ships for defensive PURPOSES. This
became known tonight after the state
department had announced the re-
ceipt of dispatch which quoted one
of the survivors of the Manchester
Engineer disaster as saying he had
seen the horoscope Of a submarine.
Affidavits Of Survivors.
Other dispatches received during
the dav brought the information that
a number of affidavits from survivors
of the Sussex were being forwarded by
Ambassador sharp at Paris, that Am
bassador Gerard at Berlin had been
promised an early reply to his in
quiries regarding the Sussex. the Eng
lishman and other ships, within few
days.
Until number of unarmed mer-
chant ships were overtaken with dis
aster in the war zone, the United
States had planned to issue, for the
benefit of the belligerents, complete
definition Of it's position regarding the
arming Of merchant ships for de-
fensive purposes and the conduct of
submarine warfare.
The proposed statement, probably,
will be withheld until the facts con-
cerning the recent disaster are clear
ed up. ....,... .. .....
Germans RepuIsed by Russ.
An attack by the Germans against
the bridgehead at Ikskull was repuls-
ed by the Russians. The usual bom-
bardments are in progress on the
Austro.ltalian fronts.
Constantinople reports that the
Turks, strongly reinforced, have
checked the Russians offensive in
the Caucasus region and that the Ot-
toman forces have made advances in
the Tchoruk valley. Petrograd, how
ever, asserts that the Russians have
seized heavily fortified Turkish posi-
tions at an altitude of i 900 feet on
the upper Tchoruk and farther south
have captured a Turkish position and
dispersed Turkish cavalry detach
ments.
Turks Hit English Troops.
In Arabia, according to Constanti-
nOple, the British near Schiekh Os-
man has been driven from fortified
positions with heavy casualties and
forced to retreat.
The sinking by a Turkish subma-
rine in the Black Sea on March 80
Of a 12,000-ton Russian transport.
with troops aboard, and of two other
vessels on March 81, is reported by
the Turkish war office. 1t was on
March 30 that the Russian hospital
ship, Portugal, was torpedoed and
sunk in the Black Sea.
German Air Raids.
A British official statement says
hot
Scotland Sunday night, ten persons
were killed and II injurew.
Berlin asserts that Edinburgh and
Leith and points on the Firth OIL
Forth and the Tyne were visited by |
the Zeppelins and that violent ex-
plosions and numerous fires occurred
both in Scotland and England All
he airchinc roturnod IN tho;r hose