Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-29
Both French and Germans
Make Claims of Small
Successes.
KAISER FINDS FORT
DOUAUMONT IN RUINS
Teu:ons Spring Surprise in
Champagne District;
Capture 10000 Men.

THE tide of battle around Ncrdun
i apparently has not turned in
favor of either side. While the Ger
mans claim further advances the
French are equally emphatic in their
assertion that they checked the at
tacks of the masses of German in
fantry sent against them.
Fort DOuaumont has fallen to the
Germans but il Is reported to be In
ruins. Around this position the most
. desperate fighting of the battle has
J been going on since Friday. Here
French cOuntcr-att0cks were deliv-
cred with such crushing force that
some of the German dctachmcntS
were driven back and one regiment
is almost cncirclcd. To the west of
this fort i'm II hand TO hand encounter
the French have elected the Germans
frCm u small rcdOubt which they had
captured.
Throughout the entire sector OF
Ncrdun except on the western bank
of the Mcusc river. where the Ger
man bonn bardment has slackcned
somewhat. the artillery ducls are
still OF vast proportions. To the
southeast the French at Frcsncs. In
the Woeyrc region. have put down
two German attacks against that
Town. but the Germans have inaug-
uratcd an important movement in the
Champagne district Wchcr ny sur
:. prise attack they succeeded in enter
Y ing French advance positions OF
supporting trench over front OF
nearly "a mile. capturing more 'haii
a thousand men.
Germans Gain Steadily
Notwithstanding the fresh reserves
the French have thrown into the al
fray at Fort DouaumOnt, the German
war office declares that their efforts
have been fruitless and that the Ger
mans have advanced their lines to-
ward Bras and NacherauNilie. IL also
is claimed that the Germans nave
entirely expelled the French from the
Meuse peninsula southWard from
SamogneuX and west OF Nacherau-
Vile.
on the Russian front around Fried
Hchstadt and Iloukst there have been
-theavy artillery machine gun ana rlIle
firing In Galicia the Russians re-
pulsed an attempt by the Austro-
Hungarians to capture trenches Oh
the middle Stripa river.
The Austrians, according 10 VIENNA,
have put down with sanguinary losses
an Italian attack against positions on
both sides of Monte San Michele ana
east OF AzZo and also destroyed an
Italian trench on the Gorizia prldse-
head
The Russians are still operating
successfully against the Turks VINO
fled from Erzerum and the ottoman
forces in the Persian battie Zohe'
Further south in Mesopotamia DOM
bardment by the British of TURKISH
camp on the left bank of the ilsrIs
river resulted in heavy casualties to
the Turks.
Tribcsmcn Leader Killed.
Further details of the fighting pc-
tween the British and tribesmen OF.
ficered by Turks in western ESypt
show that the leader of the tribesmen'
Nuri Bey, a brother of the TURKISH
war minister. was killed and ms
principal subordinate wounded anu
that the tribesmen left large numbers
of dead and wounded on the ield as
their main force fled A.,
The Italian hospital snip Ma
rechiaro has been sunk in the Aur,
attic sea off the coast of Albania. IL
is believed the vessel struck an Aus
trian mine, While the extent or tile
casualties has not become known, IL
is reported that they are numerous
The German ambassador at WASH
ington has officially Informed Secre-
tary Lansing that the assurances gwen
Ain the Lustania case with respect 10
vsubmarine warfare have not peeh
modified by the recent German
memorandum respecting that govern
ment's intention to treat armed hler-
chantment as warships beginning