The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-04-06
LINE or GENE. FRENcH's RI.
TREAT FROM MONS SCENE OF
TERRIFIC FIGHTING.
MORE SHIPS ARE SUNK
SEVEN VILLAGES ADJOINING
hINDENBURo LINE CAPTURED
BY BRITISH.

Joining the Hindenburg line fell to the
British Saturday. two of them just
southwest Of Arras on the road to
Cambria. and five of them. including
the important center Of vermand. fac
ing st. Quentin from the West.
Occupying Vermand, the British are
once more back on the road of Sir
John French's memorable retreat
from Mons. when the First hundred
thousand" were thrust from Belgium
and almost cut to pieces. It was at
Vermand that the Eighth brigade
halted after the battle of Lecateau.
where Gen. Smith-Dorrien's command
was shattered, but not quite broken,
by Won Kluck
German raider in South Atlantic
has captured eleven enemy ships and
sunk them, according to 285 prisoners
landed at Rio Janeiro.
Several Americans reported killed
on the Snowden and the Crispin, sunk
without warning by a submarine.
Germans report victory in Bystritza
valley near Hungarian-Rumani fro
TIER, taxing 40 prlSOneras
British Illustrate Turkish envelop-
ing movement near Deltawah, thirty
five miles north of Bagdad. Turkish
attacks near Erzingan repulsed.
Rome reports repulse Of heavy Aus
trian attacks near Gorilla. Violent
artillery activity continues on the Cor
so front.
Two allied biplanes brought down by
Teutons in Macedonia, according to
Berlin statement.
Washington, March Sit is to be
war with Germany. President Wilson
and his cabinet decided unanimously
yesterday that there is no recourse
but an appeal to arms to vindicate
American rights denied by Germany
and to protect the United States from
the enmity manifested by numerous
hostile acts on the part of the Berlin
government.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY the entire
force Of the federal governments
civilian employees. approximately $780,
900 men and women engaged in every
branch Of service, has been sum-
moned to aid the Bureau of Investiga-
ton and the Secret Service in the de-
lection Of spies and the apprehension
Of persons engaged in plots, intrigues
or other activities against the inter-
ests Of the United States.
London.-British troops have cap
tured the villages of Ruyalcourt, Sorel-
le-Grand and Fins, between Berlin
court and Roisel, on the front in
France, according to the official
statement from British headquarters.
A German attack upon British posi-.
tions south of Melville Bourjenval, it
Is added, was driven off with loss.
Paris.-The French troops in Cham
payne in a counter attack have ex-
PEELED the Germans from positions
they captured there March %, accord
ing to the French official communion
ton. North of the Somme and be-
tween the Somme and the Disc the
Germans bombarded French positions.
London, March 3O.-An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam
says: Frontier correspondents hear
from Brussels that the American lega-
ton is completely isolated and under
guard Of German police 1t is ru.
mored that the Germans contemplate
taking the minister brand Whitlock)
and his staff to Germany. The Amer
leans in Brussels have been notified
that they cannot leave Belgium before
three months at the earliest"
London, March 3O.-The steady
British advance toward Cambria in
the teeth of Germany's fiercest oppo-
sition is believed here to be the open
ing of the most vital and hotly-con-
tested struggles of this war. Cambria
Is regarded as one of the valves in the
heart of Germany's system of defense.
Its fall would cut the railway by which
she carries food and munitions to her
armies all the way from Alsace to Ost-
end.
British inflict severe defeat upon
Turkish army of 10000 men in Pales-
tine. Nine hundred officers and men
captured
British in France report capture of
Melville Bourjonval, ten miles north
of Roisel.