White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-04-06
ALLIES FORCING
GERMANS BACK
HARD HITTING ON TEN-MILE
FRONT PUTS THE TEUTONS
ON MOVE AGAIN.
HEAVY GUNS OF GREAT HELP
French Gain Northeast of Scissors
and Defeat Counter Attacks-Eng-
Iish Nearer Persa-Russians
Swing South to Junction.

British efforts to drive salient
into the German lines between Mar
Going and st. Quentin continue SIC
cessfully. Seven villages on front
of 10 miles between and including
Vermand and Heudicourt were occu-
pied Saturday, according to the latest
official statement from British head
quarters in France.
Marteville, Vermand and Soyecourt
six to eight miles northwest of st.
Quentin, were occupied with little op-
position from the Germans. British
artillery drove the defenders from the
village of st. Emile, east Of Villers-
Faucon and on the railroad running
south from Marcoing. Along the Co.
logne river, small stream, the Brit
ish advanced and captured Jeancourt,
Hervily and Heudicourt. Berlin Of
ficially admits that the British ad-
vance reached Heudicourt and st.
Emile, but declares that a British at
tack north of Metzen-C Couture, north
of Heudicourt, was repulsed.
Further north, in the region south
east of Arras, there has been bitter
fighting. The British report the de-
struction of several posts, including
Eucoust-St. Mein and Henin-Sur-Co-
jeul. At the later place, Berlin says,
an engagement resulted favorably for
the Germans.
Germans Take Prisoners.
Northeast of Scissors the French
have made progress, Paris says. They
have repulsed two German counter
attacks in the region of Vregny. Ber-
lin reports that the French were de-
feated in attacks against German po-
sitions on the Vregny plateau.
In the Bystritza valley, near the
Observation-Disclosures frontier, on the
eastern front, German troops have ia
ken 200 prisoners. North of the Pri-
pet marshes near Novo Grodek, Ber-
lin says German enterprises resulted
in the capture of rs prisoners.
The forward movement of the Brit.
ish troops has brought them in con-
tact with the Turkish army that re-
treated from Kut-El-Amara and which
now has been reinforced by fresh
units. Severe fighting has taken place
near Jebel Hamrin and KILL Robat,
near the Diela river in Mesopotamia.
British Near st. Quentin.
British forces in Frances are grad
ually creeping up on the important
town of st. Quentin, considered ONT
of the German strongholds. Alst
northwest of the town they are swing
ing their line forward in a straight
ening out movement that is making
good strides eastward.
| Meanwhile the French forces I'm
der General Nivelle are keeping W
their offensive south and southeas
of st. Quentin and again have made
good progress north and south of the
Athletic river. They have captured
several German trench systems ant
organized points of support east O
Neuville- Marginal, inflicting heav.
casualties on the Germans and driv
ing them back to the outskirts o
Vauxaillon and Laffanx.
British Forge Ahead.
West of St. Quentin the British
have thrust their line through thu
village of Savy and the wood Of Sa
Wy and now are resting only tire,
miles from St. Quentin. Near Saw!
the Germans resisted tenaciously, bu
finally were beaten off, losing heav
lily in killed and wounded.
Allies Take More Town.
London, April 2.-Their latest gain.
have brought the British troops Il
within two miles of St. Quentin, say!
the official report from headquarters il
France. In the investment of st. Quen
tin several more villages have been oc
cupied by the British, including Fran
cilly-Selency, Holnon and Selency.
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