The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-03
Germans Cannot Stand Against
Haig's Blows and More Villages
FaaSsi9E% b1ptSppy,,S Moves Fors
ward With Artillery Support
TURKS DEFEATED IN
SOME HARD FIGHTING
French Advance Near Scissor
and Germans Gain Ground
and Prisoners In Assault
Against the Slays in the East
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NEW YORK, April - The
In British efforts to drive fur
Their forward the salient being
hammered towards Marcoing and
Cambria were continued yesterday
with marked success, the German
defenders of a dozen villages be-
ing either driven out and their
positions occupied or being
thrown back by the long range
bombardment of the British guns.
The British have taken the inn
portant town of Hendincourt, be-
fore which the Germans made !
stand on Friday, and have advanc-
ed their line along front from
Hendincourt to Vermand, on the
Cambrai-Sk Quentin railroad,
seven miles northwest from the
latter citadel. In this advance
seven villages have been occupied
and the advance pushed east from
Roisel about three miles.
SMELLING RAILROAD POST
In addition the british artillery,
which has been moved up close
to the advance positions Of the in
fantry, has shelled a number Of
German posts along the Cambria
railroad south Of the important
Marcoing junction, destroying the
German works and driving the de,
tenders out. H.. n, ~,
Two Of the positions thus shell
ed are Ste. MiHe, east of Villers
, Faucon, Ecourt-St. Mein ant
Henen-sur-Co jeul. The Berlir
dispatches state that the Bri
fish infantry, attempting to seiz'
the latter position, was re
pulsed, and that an attemp
to storm the German lines a
Metz en- Couture, north of the Ba
paume Cambria railroad, was also uu
successful. ' ''1 .' ~ ~
A General Battle s'"- . -. &C. .-.....
D The fighting yesterday between tn,
British and Germans was general al
along the front from Arras to a pOin
west of st. Quentin, distance O
thirty miles. On the northern end o
the line the struggle was particular,
bitter, the contestants coming to hand
to-hand encounters in many places
with heavy losses to both and eacl
holding approximately the same posi-
tions at the close Of the day. u..,F .
Northeast Of Scissor, the Frencl
made further gains and two counte
attacks of the Germans in the Vregn,
region were repulsed. ~. -. + =.
Turks Cornered 1SE .at =
In the MesOpotamian campaign, tn
British are driving the Turks eastwar
from the Tigris valley, up the Dial
River, which joins the Tigris near Bag
dad. Despite every effort of the Turk
to defend this valley, they are bein
dislodged from one village after an
other and are in danger of being pushe
over the Persian border, where, without
supplies, they must either surrender Q
perish. In the drive the British ,hav
two HSia tSRps E sn aRs sasat IA
route,,sa wen AZ the 7 Villages OF Jebs
Hamrin and KfkaftBBat. The BIRTHS
advance is now within thirty miles o
the Persian border.
Escape Gut on ..r.,.s B..
The escape of the main Turkish arm
to the north has been cut off by tn
Russian Occupation of Mosul, on th
Bagdad railroad line, which gives tn
Russians possession not only of the raj
road aBtt Aof the northern end Of tn
caravan Tptite 'dbeG 70 the Turks excep
that gbs$RicR tbS1 Ptitish are advanc
ing. "A strong Russian force is also i
possession of Kirmanshah, on the lin
of the Bntish advance.
The Turks are almost completed
hemmPd in and any escape for the arm
of the Sultan appears almost impol
sible. The desperate situation in while
the Turks fluid themselves is shown b
the frrccnesS with which they are n
tempting to stem the British adyanc,
On the Rumanian front the German
scored a success yesterday, attackin
the Russian lines in the Bystritza Va
ley, on the Rumanian. Hungaria
border. The Russians lost two hundre
prisoners, fhESt