Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-04-05
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-Enq-
Iish Nearer Persia-Russians
Swing South to junction..

Iish Nearer Persia-Russians
Swing South to junction..
British efforts to drive a salient
into the German lines between Mar
Going and St. Quentin continue suc
cessfully. Seven villages on a 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,
Heryily and Heudicourt. Berlin Of.
ficially admits that the British ad-
vance reached Heudicourt and st.
Emile, but declares that British at.
tack north Of Metzen-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-C 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 Vregpy. 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 Kizil 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 one
of the German strongholds. Also
northwest of the town they are swing
ing their line forward in straight
ening out movement that is making
good strides eastward.
Meanwhile the French forces un
der General Nivelle are keeping up
their offensive south and southeast
of st. Quentin and again have made
good progress north and south of the
Athletic river. They have captured
several German trench systems and
organized points of support east OF
Neuville-SurM inflicting heavy
casualties on the Germans and driv
ing them back to the outskirts OF
| Vauxaillon and Laffanx.
British Forge Ahead.
West Of St. Quentin the British
have thrust their line through the
village of Savy and the wood of Sa
Wy and now are resting only three
miles from St. Quentin. Near Savy
the Germans resisted tenaciously, but
finally were beaten off, losing heav
lily in killed and wounded.
Allies Take More Town.
London, April 2.-Their latest gains
have brought the British troops tc
within two miles of St. Quentin, says
the official report from headquarters ir
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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