The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-03-31
| atest War News From the Front.

POSITIONS anu inc loduo an" '''' -
held by the Germans in the eastern
part of the ArgOnne.
The bombardment northeast OF Yer
dun as we'll as in the WoeVre region
to the east of the fortress has IN
creased in intensity.
Heavy masses of Russians are press
ing the Germans from the Riga dis
trict southwark distance OF seventy
miles. While they have gained some
advantages, the Russian war office adj
mits that south Of Lake Dreswiaty the
Germans recaptured trenches that the
Russians had taken the previous night.
The Russians have again pierced the
opposing line in the Jacobstadt sector.
The Russians are operating in three
groups, covering front of three hun
dred miles, but the seyerest fighting
is reported to have occurred near
Lake Narocz, where the Russian drive
carried them through three lines OF
German trenches heavily protected by
wire entanglements.
Infantry attacks northwest Of Yer
dun, preceded by vigorous lombard
ment, have enabled the Germans to
gain a foothOld on the small hill of
HauCourt, which lies just outside the
village of Malancourt and between
that town and the eastern edge Of the
MalanCourt wood.
The entire sector Of about two and
fGlf miles from the AyeCourt wood to
Malancourt has been subjected to a
violent artillery bOmbardment and sew
eral German infantry attacks, but eX-
cept in the immediate vicinity of Ma.
lancourt the Germans we're held by
the French barrier fire and were I'M
able to advance.
From the west, in the forest Of the
Argonne, the French are heavily she'll
ing the Malancourt wood, which is in
the hands of the Germans, and at va
rious points in the forest have bonn
barded German organizations, and es-
pecially at Four de Paris, La File
Morte and MontfaucOn.
The Russian offensive against the
Germans in Northwest Russia has in
creased in intensity and fighting is in
progress day and night. The latest Of
fetal statement from Russian general
1 headquarters says that desperate in
fantry fighting is proceeding north Of
/ the town of Postavy, where the Ger
mans launched violent counter-attaCks
in an attempt to dislodge the Russians
! from trenches which they had pre-
viously captured, Respecting this op-
Grafton the Berlin communication says
that at this point the Russians deliv-
cred their attack and their losses
reached extraordinary high figures
even for the number of Russians in &C,
ton"
The Russians captured three lines
of the German trenches on the south
western shore of Lake Narocz, where
it is officially declared the fighting is
developing in favor of the Russian
forces. Here the Russians, despite
"asphyXiating gases and murderous
fire" forced three lines of wire en-
tanglements and made their gains in g
series of fierce hand-to-hand encoun
terS.
The Russians continue their pursui
of the Turks in the Caucasus regior
and have taken additional prisoners
and guns. An attempt by the Turks t
advance in the Black sea littoral wa!
stopped by Russian naval and lant
guns.
A notable aerial raid was carried
ont early in the day on the German
seaplane station at Zeebrugge, Bel
GUM, and the aerodrome near there,
squadron Of sixty-fiye allied machine
-aerOplanes and seaplanes-makin
the attack. The British official state
ment says that considerable damag
} appeared to have been done.
A war conference, probably of me-
) mentOus importance, opened at Part
this week, where military and poll
ical representatives of the entente a
lies have gathered.
Five French aircraft dropped bomb
on Metz, ammunition depots near CHI
teau Salins and the aerodrome a
Dieuse, while twenty-three other M;
: chimes attacked the aviation camp &
l Haubsheim and the freight station g
Muelhausen. In battles in the a.
S which followed the Germans and tn
French eact lost three of four nj
chimes.
Three officers and forty-four me
: Of the crew of the French torpedo d
: 6troyer Renaudin were lost when
i TeutOnic submarine sent the yess
to the bottom in the adriatjc.