The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-03-30
British and French Alike Report
Adyaftss'- Sir Douglas Haig
Drawing Nearer To Cambria.
While Neville Gains To South
RUSSIANS REPULSED WHEN
THEY STRIKE. IN voLHYNIA
AustriansAttack italian Trenches
In the Julian Alps, But Are Re-
pulsed After Heavy Fighting;
Battle Again In Macedonia
Associated Press BY Federal wireless,

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Associated Press by Federal wirelsssJ
AIEW YORK, March 28-The
IN gigantic armies Of the En-
tente and the Central Powers are
fcinting, striking, retiring, block
ing, maneuvering for advantage
on almost every one of the fronts,
but with the exception of the
steady retirement of the Germans
on the line from Arras to Laon,
in western France, the changes as
reported yesterday were compare
lively uhimportant.
The French are still battering
their way forward along the road
to Laon. Yesterday morning they
had driven their lines into the
heart of the Forest of Courcy
where the Germans had construct
ed trenches to hold them back,
but the artillery cleared the way
for the infantry and the official
comminuque last night announced
that the whole OF the lower sec
tons of the forest have been taken
from the invaders, together with
the villages of Petit Varisis,
Vereuil, Courcy-Laville and Cour-
cy lie Chateau.
BY night fall the advance of the
French had succeeded in reaching
the outskirts, OF the Forest OF
Saint Gobain; due east of Laon
and Just south of the road between
Laon and La Fere. Thanks to the
cover afforded by the forests the
German retirement was stayed a
time yesterday, but the searching
guns found the enemy and drove
him out Of his positions, before
he had time to consolidate them
On their section of the French
line the British are also doing
well. They have driven forward
with hardly pause in the las
forty-eight hours, in their advance
toward Cambria, while farther t
the south, in the direction of Sainr
Quentin, their gains have beer
even more marked, and Berlin
yesterday announced that the
Entente troops have entered thu
town of Roisel.
Roisel is midway between Sain
Quentin and Cambria on the MAR
railroad between those two cities
and is in itself an important juno
ton point, one line of the railroad
running to Cambria, due north
while another ran to Peronne, ant
the third branched to the soutl
to Saint Quentin. The British lin,
south of Roisel is now beginning
to climb gentle slope, the inclin,
being gradual from their presen
positions in that sector clear t,
the Belgian boundary line, saw
where the Somme valley cuts int,
The rolling uplands OF that part o
France. Among the other village
taken Yesterday by the British
but nearer to Cambria are Lon
gavesnes, Lieramont and Equan
court.
Huge masses of Germans have bee
transferred to both the Russian an
the Italian fronts, according to despa
ches from. letrograd and Rome, an
they have struck with more or LEI
force in both those theaters of I'll
World WaFA South of Baranovichi
Nolhyuia,9 where tile desperate fghtir
of last spring Rhd Summer brought Il
great drive of Brussiloff to a standsti
the Germans sent out waves of ga
which caught the Russians unprepare
and forced them out of their trenche
Berlin claims TO have captured thrI
hundred Russian prisoners in this igh
ing, but Petrograd announced that Il
Germans were later repulsed,