The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-03-30
PuNcrURE HINDENeuRc LINE
ON FouR-MILE FRONT. SAYS
PARIS REpoRT.
HEALOT0N GOES down
U. 8. STEAMER ToRPEooEo IN
"sAFE ZONE" CLOSE TO
COAST OF HOLLAND.


ate fighting between French and Ger
mans reported on the Somme and
Aisne rivers. French make more
progress toward st. Quentin. Berlin
admits further retirement but claims
serious damage has been inflicted ON
the enemy.
Seventeen allied airplanes shot
down in days fighting. says Berlin.
Paris and London record severe fight
ing in the air.
Heavy German forces concentrated
on northern Russian frontier prepara-
tory to an attack with the capture OF
Petrograd as its objective. Russian
people warned Of impending danger.
Spring thaws prevent decisive mill
tary activity on the Rumanian front
Small raiding operations reported.
Town of Roisel, seven miles from
Peronne, enter by British. The retire.
ment of Grand Duke Nicholas from
his post as commander-in-chief of the
Russian army, is officially confirmed.
Paris, March "a. - The French
French cruiser (battleship) Danton
was torpedoed in the Mediterranean
sea on March 10, it was announced
officially by the admiralty. Two hun.
bred and ninety-six men were lost and
806 were saved by the destroyer
Massue and patrol boats.
Copenhagen.-A dispatch received
here from Haparanda. Sweden, says
the Russian Social Democratic party
has issued a manifesto demanding
peace.
British report progress southeast Of
Arras, and the French. Paris says,
have moved forward between one and
q quarter and two and q half miles
in the st. Quentin region. French
troops also have made gains in the
heights overlooking the Disc valley,
northeast of Tergnier.
North of. Monastir, after a violent
fight, Hill 1,248 remained in the
hands of the French. In sixteen.
hour battle near Kerind. Petrograd
reports the Turks were forced to re-
treat to Kerind. -.-
South OF the Disc the French con-
tinue to cross the Ailette river. and
north OF scissors, Paris says, consid-
cradle progress has been made toward
Marginal.
London, March 23.-Thirteen mem
bers of the American steamer Heald-
tons crew have arrived at Ymuiden,
holland. They say the steamer was
sunk without warning in the so-called
safe zone" A Rotterdam dispatch
says that 1t is reported that thirty
four men Of the Healdton were either
killed when the vessel was attacked
or drowned subsequently.
Washington.-Americ Consul Ma
hin at Amsterdam cabled the State
| Department that the American
steamer Healdton, sunk by a subma-
rine off Terschelling, Holland, was
torpedoed without warning and that
The consul's dispatch follows:
STANDARD Oil ship Healdton from
Philadelphia for Rotterdam. cargo oil.
torpedoed, without warning. S:15
evening of 21st, twenty-five miles
north of Terschelling, Holland. TWEEN.
ty of crew drowned. One died Of in.
juries. Others taken to north Of Hol.
land. Submarine seen soon after tor.
pedoing. More details to follow.
Washington.-Vice Consul Kroh al
Rotterdam advised the State Depart
ment of the sinking, by gun-fire from
a German submarine, of the Dutch
tank steamship La Campine, with ar
American captain, Gustav Claude, or
zone" The crew was saved. The Ii
Campine, owned by the American Pc
troleum Co., was en- route from Rot
terdam to New York.
Paris, March 23.-The total amour
: of French territory liberated from tht
German invaders by the Somme of
fensive up to March 81 is 1853 squar,
miles situated in the four depart
ments of Pas-de-Calais, Disc, Aisn,
; and Somme. It includes 366 town,
l and villages, the homes of 1873!
! Frenchmen. The Germans are still il
3 possession Of 1926 square miles O
J, France.
Gear Prisoner In Republic Palace.
Petrograd.-The last of the Roman
9 offs was under detention at 'Tsarko<
. Selo Friday, his guards bearing tn,
4 red banner of the Russian democracy
. The former car. czarina, the roya
: couples only son and their fou
. daughters are now housed in tn,
q palace. Every Difference has beef