The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-03-27
FRENCH MOVE
NEARER LA0N
Are Showing Salient into the
Southern End of Won
Hindenburg Line
COuCY-LE-CHATEAU
TAKEN LAST NIGHT
French Guns Are Said to
Command st. Quen-
tin

Driving forward north and south of st
Quentin, the allies have cut two of the
four main railroads which feed the city
while the third is well within reach OF
french guns. The Germans are making
desperate and bloody attempts to wrest
from the French the Essigny banay
plateau, from which General Neville's
guns command the southern approaches
to the city and render its position, in
the opinion of military critics, one of
great peril
Further south the French have forged
well to the west of st. Quentin, ham
rnerlng a great dent in the German line.
On the northern section of the great bat
tie line the situation is somewhat OBJ
scure. Neither the British nor the Ger
man official communications throw much
light ON the operations here. Some prog
ress in the direction of Cambria has been
made by General Haig, but apparently
the determined resistance of the Ger
mans checked the British advance along
the whole Arras sector.
While the issue in the Titanic struggle
in France remains in doubt, the stage is
set for sensational possibilities in far
off Mesopotamia. In the plain of the
Tigris five armies are converging on the
Turks in the hope of dealing blow to
the Ottoman power in its entire eastern
empire. The meagreness of the official
reports from London, Constantinople and
Petrograd leaves, however, considerable
doubt as to the precise nature of the
situation in this theatre.
Paris. March 27.--The village of Coucy-
le-thateau was captured by the French
in an attack last night, and the war
Office announces that further progress
was made in the low section of Coucy
forest, all OF the northern part of which |
is new held by the French. The Off
cial communication last night announced |
the capture of Folenbray and La Feuil
lee in Couey forest Last nights com
munication Is as follows
"North of the Somme there have been |
no essential changes. Between the Somme /
and the Oise our artillery dispersed enc
my assemblies between Depay aud Lr
yillers tSt Quentin sector1.
South Of the Disc We made important
progress in the Basse Foret de Coucy
the difficulties of the
.errain and the spirited resistance of the
,nemy, our troops occupied Folembray
md La Feuilee.
North OF Scissors We made progress
n the region of Vregny."
London March 27.-The official British
last night was as fol-
ows:
This morning we attacked and cap
ured' the village of Lagnicourt. North
f the Bapaume Cambria road we took
0 prisoners and a machine gun. During
he afternoon the enemy delivered de-
ermined counter attacks from the east
nd northeast, but we're driven off. A
bird attack. caught in the open by our
rtillery, failed to develop.
another bombing attack made by the .
nemy during the night upon our post
orth of Beaumetz-les-C Cambria was re-
ulsed.
Parties Of the enemy who endeavored !
, approach our lines in the neighbor
ood of Frauquisssrt and east of Ypres
ere dispersed by our machine gunfire.
"There was considerable artillery ac- !,
vity to-day by both sides.
east of Nivelle-St. Vaast and Armen- .
eres there was much fighting in the air =
rsterdav, in the course of which two
erman machines were brought down q
nd three others were driven down dam y
red Seven of our machines are miss
e." :.