New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-03-09
british DRIVE
GERMANS BACK
IMPROVE AND STRENGTHEN PO.
SlTiONS GAINED EAST OF
BoUCHAVSNEs.
CINCHY TRENCH
EIGHT AIR MACHINES BROUGHT
DOWN, TWO FALLING IN
BRITISH LINES.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, March 6.-British headquar-
tiers in France reports: Monday
morning the enemy attacked a posi-
ton east of Rouchavesnes gained by
us, but were repulsed with loss, leav.
ing some prisoners in our hands.
East of Gommecourt we have i'm
proved and strengthened the positions
gained. We carried out two success
full raids to the southeast and north
east OF Arras respectively. Many cas-
ualties were inflicted on the enemy;
forty-two prisoners and one machine
gun were captured.
I'VE also entered trenches to the
southeast of Ginchy and took prison.
ers. In every case, our casualties
were slight.
Sunday there was considerable &C.
tlvity in the air; many combats took
place. Six hostile machines were
brought down, two falling in our lines.
Eight were driven down damaged"
London.-The British troops in their
forward movement in the Ancre area
IN France have made another advance
east or G|ommecourt along a two-mile
front of about two-thirds OF a mile.
according to the official report from
headquarters. Nearly 200 prisoners
were captured.
Berlin. Lieutenant General Won
Stein, the Prussian minister of war.
announced in the %reichstag that re-
prlsals had been taken against what
the minister termed the mistreatment
OF Germans taken prisoner by the en-
tente allies.
British troops have made additional
northwest of Puisieux-au-
Mont, north of the Ancre, and in the
region of Warlencourt, south of the
Ancre and toward Bapaume.
In the fighting in the Ancre region
the British on Friday captured 1923
prisoners. Berlin reports the repulse
local attacks near Souchez and in
the Ancre region.
On The east bank of Narayuvka
river, in Galicia, German storming de-
tachments blew up Russian positions
and took 40 prisoners.
In the Val Putna, Berlin records the
made five fruitless attacks
Austro-G| mar positions on
heights north of the valley. Petro-
grad says the fighting continues north
81 the Jacobeni-Kimpolung high road.
detachments were forced
o withdraw, P%etrograd says, from a
height north of the river laval.
Turkish forces in their retreat from
kut-el-Amara on Tuesday had reached
Aziziyah. about fifty-two miles north
vest of Kut,
Berne, Switzerland.-The recent re-
'orts that the AustrO-Hungarian gov
'rnment has determined to make ev-
'ry effort to maintain diplomatic re-
atoms with the United States is cor
oborated by information reaching
lere from Vienna. The impression
that Austria Hungary will
make every sacrifice regarded as rea-
enable to avoid a rupture, ever if
UGH action apparently would mean
lying in the face of Germany.
Berlin.-The admiralty made the
blowing announcement Friday: "On
larch LIST expired the final period Of
race allotted for sailing ships in the
From this date no special
will be given to any boats by .
ubmarines."
London, March .2.-The remnants of
he Turkish force retreating from
lut-ElAmara have been shattered
ompletely, according to information
iven out in the House of Commons.
he Turks, it was said, would reach
only as a disorderly mob. It
as announced that more than $500
risoners had been taken by the Brit
IN since Feb. "a and that since the
commencement of the offensive of
80 some 5000 Turkish prisoners
ad been taken. The total Turkish
in killed and wounded was
stimated by Gen. Maude at more
20, 900.