The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-15
GERMAN INFANTRY
IDLE IN TRENCHES
Crown Prince Evidently Pre-.
pairing for Further Attacks
on verdun Defenses,
Big GUNS CONTINUE ACTIVITY
shower Shells on French Positions
About Hill so4-Artlllery Duels
Along Russian Front.

London, April 13.-The Germans
northwest Of Verdun evidently are
holding in leash their infantry for
fresh attacks in their endeaVors to
capture Hill S04 and lie Mort Homme,
~key-points which are tenaciously bar.
ring their way to the fortress.
The infantry has remained idle in
their trenches while the big guns are
showering shells, On the region EN-.
bracing the triangle formed by Hill
S04, Esnes and lie Mort Homme. Not
even a sally by the Germans in this
district is reported in the latest French
official communit alton.
Comparative 4uiet prevails to the
east Of the Meuse around D%ouauHnont
and Vaux, where there has recently
been such vicious fighting. No infan.
try attacks have been made by either
side, and the activity of the artillery
has been less marked than on previ-
Gus days.
Mining operations and grenade fight.
ing have taken place in the Argonne
forest, during which the French cap.
tured the southern edges of two crar
tiers near Les Courtes Chassees.
The Germans along the Pelkelm-
Ypres road, after three attacks, invad.
ed British trenches, but were quickly
expelled from them, while the British
successfully raided German trenches
near Richebourg L'Avone.
In the Russian theater there have
tbeen artillery duels and infantry at.
tacks at various places. On the Aus.
tro-Italian front the Italians have TAX
en- from the Austrians the heights
north of Rioporals and strong lines of
trenches and redoubts on the southern
slopes of Monte Carl and C~innabono,
the Austrians suffering heavy casual.
ties.
In Asiatic Turkey P%etrograd reports
a continuation of the Russian advance
west of Erzerum. The Turks, however,
In the region of Bitlis, took the often
sive against the invaders, but all their
attacks we're repulsed.
Verdun Attacks Continue.
London, April 1.-THE armies of
the German crown prince around Yer
dun are still vigorously on the often
sive against the French.
Having delivered an attack along
the line from lie Mort Homme to
Cumieres, which netted them a few
small sections of French trenches on
the east of lie Mort Homme, the Ger
man commanders rested their infantry
there, but in the region of Douaumont-
Vaux, northeast of Verdun, threw
their men in large numbers against
the French trenches.
Here again they met with success,
but only for a short time, for the
French in a counter attack drove the
invaders from advanced sections of
trenches they had captured and in
the operations took about one hum
dred German prisoners.
In the Russian theater, an attempt
by the Germans to take the offensive
in the region of the Ikskull bridge
head was stopped by the Russians.
The big guns of both sides have been
busy at various points elsewhere along
the front.
Petrograd reports hat the Russians
are continuing to gain ground against
the Turks in the region of Erzerum.
! Unofficial advices are to the effect
that the Turks have %regrouped their
forces and now are resisting stubborn
ly the three Russian main lines of ad-
vance into their territory.
The Austrians, between the Adige
and Sugana Valley, have brought into
the campaign artillery which is de-
scribed by Rome as new and very
powerful. The Italian guns, however,
have replied effectively to their fire.
No infantry attacks are reported in
this theater of the war.
French Lines Stand.
London, April 11.-Without pause,
the German crown prince, taking adj
vantage of the evacuation of the Beth
incourt salient by the French and the
4 occupation of that position by the Ger
D mans, has thrown several divisions
against the new French line, but so
! far has been unable to break that line
t at any point.
The bombaTdment of the whole
q front west of the Meuse is of increas.
8 ing intensity IN both sides, Germans,
moving down along the Haucourt-
: B~ethincourt line, attacked the French
d positions south of the FORCES brook.
. Here they had t. face the full fury
: Of the French guns, which inflicted
2 heavy losses.