The Rice belt journal., 1916-04-21
AFTER DAYS OF FURIOUS SoM-
BARDMENT OF FRENCH LINES
TEUTONS SLOW DOWN.
ITALIANS S-AUSTRIANS ACTIVE
Commandments and Infantry Attacks
at Various Points Contnue-Many
Vessels Sunk This Week by
Mines and Submarines.
Latest War News From Front.


al the other war theaters, diplomatic
issues growing out of the war are
prominently to the fore in the news OF
the day.
Before Verdun the infantry has re-
NAMED inactive and only in the sec
tors to the northwest, embracing Hill
3O4 and the front from lie Mort
Homme to Cumieres has there been
heavy work by the artillery. Berlin
reports that unfavorable weather is
hindering infantry operations.
The Germans northwest OF Nerdun
evidently are holding in leash their
infantry for fresh attacks in their en-
deavors to capture Hill No. 3O4 ana
LIE Mort Homme, key points which are
tenaciously barring their way to the
fortress.
On the Austro-Italian line the usual
bombardments and infantry attacks at
various points continue. In Asiatic
Turkey the Turks have delivered pow
erful Counter.attaCks in the Caucasus
region against important positions re-
Gently captured from them by the
Russians. Their attempts failed, ac-
Cording to PetrOgTad,
Five additional vessels have met
with disaster as the result of mines
or submarines. The British steam
ers Robert Adamson and Angus and
the British bark InverIyOn have been
sunk by submarines, while a Danish
vessel named Dorothea has been sunk
by a mine and the Dutch steamer Co.
lombia damaged by mine.
In the Russian theater there have
been artillery duels and infantry at
tacks in various places. On the Aus
tro-Italian front the Italians have
taken from the Austrians the heights
north of Rioporals and strong lines OF
trenches and redoubts on the southern
slopes of Monte Carl and Cinnabono
and on the rocks of Monte Speronne,
the Austrians suffering heavy casual
ties.
Elsewhere along the line the artil-
lery duels continue Dispatches from
Saloniki reported recurrence in the
| fighting on the Greek front between
Gievgeli and Doiran. In Asiatic Tur-
key, Petrograd reports continuation
of the Russian advance west of Erze-
rum. The Turks, however, in the re-
gion of Bitlis took the offensive
against the Russians, but all their at
tacks were repulsed.
Although the Turks report serious
| defeat near Felahie of the British ad.
vancing to the relief of General Town
shend in Kut-el-Amara, a dispatch is
said to have been received in South
Africa from General Townshend say,
ing that he was well and expecting re.
! lief shortly.
Gold, silver and paper money and all
negotiable instruments and realizable
securities have been placed on the
contraband list by Great Britain.
The armies of the German crown
prince around Verdun are still vigor.
ously on the offensive against the
French.
Having delivered an attack along
the line from LIE Mort Homme to Gu.
nieres, which netted them few small
! portions of French trenches on the
east of lie Mort Homme, the German
| commanders rested their infantry, 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 short period Of time,
! for the French in a counter-attack
1rOve the invaders from advanced
sections of trenches they had captured
and in the operations took about one
hundred German prisoners.
While the Douaumont-Yaux attack
was in progress the Germans had not
overlooked the line between lie Mort
Homme and Cumieres and covered the
entire region with an intense artillery
Tire, probably preparing for another at.
tack by infantry. Along the remain.
| Ter of the front in France and Bel.
Bium there were only artillery bonn.
0ardments. In one of these-north OF
The Aisne-the French guns caused Sc.
rious losses to a strong German col.
umn on the march.
In the Russian theater an attempt
by the Germans to take the offensive
in the region of the Ikskull bridgehead
was stopped by the Russians. The bic
guns of both sides have been busy at
various points elsewhere along the
| front
Petrograd reports that 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 thei1
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