The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-03-01
ADVANCE is MADE
ALONG WIDE FRONT.
IN FRANCE is ANNOUNCED IN
BRITISH REPoRT-eERMANs
YIELD GROUND.
CLAIM VICTORY OVER TURKS
In Report Received at London-Mer-
curry Falls To 3s Degrees Below
Zero in East-Austrians Repulsed
BY italians.

zero IN EaSt-NuStrianS hepuIseu
BY italians.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London.-Important positions along
the AnCre are being occupied by Brit
ish troops. The official report given
out here announces that during .-le
last "a hours the Germans have con.
tinued to yield ground, resulting in a
British advance along a wide front.
The report from British headquar-
ters reads:
During the last "a hours the eiemy
continued to yield ground along the
Ancre. Meeting with little opposition,
small bodies of our troops pushed for
ward on wide front, occupying Serre
village and several other important
points farther east.
1--WE successfully raided positions
last evening east of Vierstraat (Bel-
gium), on a front of 500 yards. Our
troops remained in the German trench.
es for an hour, inflicted heavy casual
ties, destroyed several dugouts, mine
shaft and three machine guns and
captured 55 prisoners and one ma
chine gun. We also entered the enc.
my's positions during the night east
of Armentieres.
"A hostile raiding party reached our
trenches, east of Yypres under cover
of a heavy bombardment. The raiders
were Immediately elected with loss.
The enemy blew up mine this morn.
ing east of Ypres.
There was considerable artillery
activity again on both sides of the
Somme."
The official communication issued
by the Paris War Office reads:
Our artillery was active in the re-
gion of LIE Mort Homme. Our shelling
was attended with good results. In
termittent artillery actions took place
at various points along the front in
Lorraine and the Vosges. Quiet pre-
vailed everywhere else.'
Belgium communication: Bomb
fighting was resumed with violence in
the region of Steenstraete and Het
sas. The usual artillery actions took
place at divers points along the front. =
South of Ypres and between Ar
mentieres and Arras several advances
of the British, some launched aftel
strong artillery bombardment, were
repulsed," says official German report
from the Franco-Belgium front.
Our thrusting detachments carried
out accommodating attacks west of Lie
den, in the course of which they pen
etrated hostile positions deeply, TAX
ing prisoners and destroying enemy
works"
"In the Somme sector the artillery
fighting was spirited for time, partic
ularly between Sally and Boucha
Vesnes.
East of st. Mihiel French enter
prises were undertaken without sue
cess. Our own enterprises in the wood
ed district toward the MoZelle result
ed in the capture of IL men. Nea
Lusse, on the western slope OF th'
Vosges, German storming detachment
brought back 80 men from French pc
sitions."
The semi-official Transocean New
Bureau, of Berlin, gives a review o
the furious attacks made by tn
French to regain the lost positions ol
Hill 1856, south Of Ripont, in Cham
payne. The fact that the French hav
made repeated attacks at great losse
on this front tends to disprove, accord
ing to the news bureau, the assertion
made by the French headquarters tina
the position was only salient angle.
The review adds on the eastern from
the temperature went to 38 degree
below zero. The Sereth front is in tn
grip of snowstorms.
Several attacks were made by tn
Austrians, but, according to ottlc1a
Italian report, they were defeated b.
the Italians. The announcement TO
lows:
THE artillery was more active Il
the Astico and Travignolo Valleys, a
the head of the Cordevole and But tol
rents and in the area east Of Gorizia
The enemy attempted to attack ou
positions on Monte Mosciagh, on tn
Asiago Plateau, in the Grande Valley
on the upper But and in the Ponte
bana Valley, but was repulsed every
where.
"The weather was favorable 70
aerial activity. Our aviators, support
ed by the artillery, put hostile all
planes to flight"