The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-09
British Airmen Destroy
Ger man Torpedo Boats
ANIATORS PENETRATE
BEHIND GERMAN LINES
The British Score Another
Advance of Nearly Two
Miles at The West.

LONDON. Apr. S, 1850 p NJ
\ German destroyer was sunk
and another was damaged severe
IL last night of thu Belgian coast
wv nriish airp!aneS. the admiralty
announces. Tho state ~ ent
follows:
ATTACKS were carried out on
IN" Zeebruggc (B"igiumD mole by
uaval ssaplanes on the night Of
Aprii IS. Many bombs We're drop
ped. Attacks also we're made on
ammunition dumps at Ghcnt and
B.ages. All our machines return
vd safely.
Other operations were carried
ui!t OF Irehrugge during the
same night whereby 1wo enemy
dcstroycrS were torpcdoed. One
Was seen 10 sink. The fato Of the
second * uncertain but Il WAS
severely damaged. we sustained
no cHstIaltin$."
PARIS. Apr. Soc 4. m.-Ger-
ni;,u puSi;ious ~ Inu region OF
i.oI!AartZvGe. ii-,li-,un> wsT. En-
".ra!rd 81 Two points last night,
IN" r-ar ctlice announces. 30 I'm.
prriaD. action occurred between
II. :5Dmm" add 'bc -Aisne before
IN" REV German front. German
au;iHcks in III" NusgnS and in Al
sac" ;r"rr reVu!Scd.
BERLIN. Va London, Apr. S.
The TTrnch renewed yesterday
THEIR attnmpt 70 gain ground near
Lai::iux on The new frcnll north OF
SojssunS bur ware repulsed with
heavy losses. the war office an.
nouGcnS.
The SIatrment says l6l airplan-
es and 70 captive balloons wera
destroyed o. the Germans last
month.
EXccp, :u- an advance by The BIRTHS
"vc: Il front @: n@arly q mile ami lhccr
quarters north ii Lnuvcral, which ii.,
about midway between Rapuumu at'
'a:ubrai. artillery duciS. trench raidin
AID at-p;ant' operations have feature
tn" ;iShilng on th" western front i!
l''ranc" and Belgium.
Thrrc va: no infantry action SUnir
on this front. the British having ,'Hr
ri"d "ut :h"ir attack against tho t;"T
nuns Saturday n3scTt. at the same tim
!n~ German positions near Lpuhacrt
@NIc. Bei&IUn. AMI !utiiclES citualtiE
On tho defenders.
Eeriin reports III" rcaulsc with hcav
loss nt french attacks Saturday usu
i.atfauN. northeast Of SnisSnnS.
British ;,irnr";i Or" continuing tnci
Intensive liz ii: :1.:s. hu!rb dropping an
scouting operations oyer the 'icrula
lines ir France nnd t;"lE:um. y tura
1iTty miles behind tir German front WI
one of th,. exploits recorded frnru th
aviators SUNDAY. Considering inc -
suits ihoy ha"" achieved III hghil7a
bombing and observation, IN" EriiiS
atrrnen count the cost il the i"SS Of air
rlnrns srHaIi ono.
!.rnGnn r"p"rtss that IN operations NJ
Icp brucgr TWO G"rnran !n"p'do boa: DC
SirQycrS wrrc trrHcdo"i Ono Of Gee;
sank and the 4JiCr WIS At least sever"
Is damaged.
\ lcudInc by Russian troons "n III
co:t~: of ASin Minor has hccn nif"ctr.
rom a Torpedo boat IN IA" F:larH SO:
IN. n,."ra tinn wrs carried uut ~ ~
mouth AZ III" Eiver T"rnch. 80 mile
west - r,hi:"rd. and Il Tari.iSn ot
s~?va :jor puSt wls burned. Tn Turks
sniiIug vessels w;lh va.ua',t. r"rgoe
were CAPTURED h. the Russians au
taken t. 'T-ch'zoni.
Thn U%u;1l artillery duFls aT" In Tr7
gross in the .Ntsrro-lI Italian tH'a'r,
There has been n" chang" ~ III" Sttn:i
iirr> ~, thc Mar"hnnian :r"n' Eri'i-
n..;a:ars EI"o dr"purd humhe az 'T";I
tonic all;r'l pos!'!"r" IN III" Nar"'
riy"- valley ard at f'hrs'""n. mort Avs
cr Tayc T,Dir:Iu.