Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-02
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 SO Degrees Below
Zero in East-Austrians Repulsed
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 the
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-
tiers reads:
During the last "a hours the enemy
continued to yield ground along the
Ancre. Meeting with little opposition,
small bodies of our troops pushed for
ward on a wide front, occupying Serre
village and several other important
points farther east.
I'VE successfully raided positions
last evening east Of Vierstraat BEL
gium), on a front of 800 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 50 prisoners and one ma
chine gun. We also entered the ene-
my's positions during the night east
OF Armentieres.
"A hostile raiding party reached our
trenches, east of Yypres under cover
of a heavy bombardmept. The raiders
were immediately elected with loss.
The enemy blew up niue this morn
ing east of Ypres
There was considerable artillery
activity again on both sides of the
Scmme."
The official communication issued
by the Paris War Office reads:
Our artillery was active in the re.
gion of lie Mort Homme. Our Smelling
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 after
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, iii 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 a 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 II men. Near
Lusse, on the western slope of the
Vosges, German storming detachments
brought back 80 men from French po-
sitions."
The semi-offfcial Transocean News
Bureau, of Berlin, gives a review of
the furious attacks made by the
French to regain the lost positions on
af in,
payne. The fact that the French have
made repeated attacks at great losses
on this front tends to disprove, accord
ing to the news bureau, the assertion
made by the French headquarters that
the position was only salient angle.
The review adds on the eastern front
| the temperature went to SO degrees
below zero. The Sereth front is in the
grip of snowstorms.
Several attacks were made by the
Austrians, but, according to official
| Italian report, they were defeated by
the Italians The announcement fol
lows:
THE artillery was more active in
the Astico and Travignolo Valleys, al
the head of the Cordevole and But tor
| rents and in the area east of Gorilla
The enemy attempted to attack our
positions on Monte Mosciagh, on the
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 fol
aerial activity. Our aviators, support
ed by the artillery, put hostile air
| planes to flight"