The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
AMERICANS MAKE
 THREE B|G RAIDS ON GERMAN LINE
Fly the Associated Press

American initiative mas aS- serted itself on the Lorraine front in France. Three savage raids on the German lines have been made by the Americans who succeeded in reaching the second line of enemy trenches before being ordered to return. During their stay in German held territory they destroyed carefully built defenses and picked up much war material. The American artillery ably as- sisted the infantry in the operation. A heavy barrage fire was laid down in front of the advancing Americans and the Germans had fled before the wave of infantry reached the hostile positions. After the Americans mad been in the German trenches for few minutes the German barrage fire was loosed on them, but the American guns answered shot for shot and si- fenced a number of batteries The American artillerymen used gas shells with good effect.
 l Near Foul the American heavy guns
 have been in action.
 | Three raids on the British lines have been attempted by the Germans in the 1 Armentieres sector but the British. in l spite of 8 heavy fire from the enemy's heavy guns. repulsed the Teutons. The fighting has spread along the Elan ders front, the Ypres and Passenchen- daele sectors figuring in the official re- ports. The activities of the contending armies have spread farther south, en- counters near St. Quentin being men 1 toned for the first time in recent weeks.
 l Information from German prisoners was responsible for the dislocation of I German plans for heavy attacks on the
 British southeast of Houtholst wood. On February 20. February 2s and March s, attacks were forestalled by terrific British artillery fire, and, while an enemy attack on March 9 was success
 full to some degree, the British on Sat
 urday succeeded in re-establishing their lines.
 The British forces operating in Pal estine have once more advanced north l and northwest of Jericho. They have | taken positions to a depth of 5000 yards
 over a front of 12 miles. The Turks l fought stubbornly at various points of vantage.
 l The resignation of Leon Trotzky, the ..n l by a report that he acted after
 quarrel with Nikolai Lenine, the pre- mier, who insisted that the Russian people agree to the disastrous peace l of Brest- -Litovsk, while Trotzky pro- tested against submitting without struggle The only fighting reported l in Russia is in the neighborhood of | Kiev Rasdjelnaia and along the Sinner | linka-Odessa railway, where the Ger mans claim to have scattered bands of | Russians
 1 There has been fighting on quite a large scale on the Italian front. In 1 the mountain sectors of the line. enemy | attempts to advance have been checked. 1 while along the Piave river the Aus
 trians were defeated in an attempt to launch pontoons for an attack on the Italian lines.
 The French have been in scattered
 encounters with the Germans at various points along their part of the front. but nowhere has there been serious fighting. Another bombardment of
 Rheims cathedral may be expected. for the Germans report that a French ob- lservation post on that almost ruined shrine has been detected.
 The air squadrons have been busy of late. The most spectacular of these operations was made by the Teuton airmen. who raided Naples. Italy. It
 may be that they started from their
 bases on the eastern shores of the Adriatic and flew over the sea and across Italy in their raid. British raid CTS have dropped large quantities of lbombs on military points in Belgium,
 while the allied airmen have been ac- i tive in Italy
 Copenhagen. March 1l.--The Tinden-
 burg, large German icebreaker struck
 a mine south of the Alandg Islands Sat
 urday and sank, according to the Dagens Myheter Several members of the crew were drowned.
 l Berlin, March 11.--tvla London.) LA
 French signaling post frequently ob-
 served on the Rheims cathedral" says Iarmy headquarters report, again came Unto action yesterday.
 1nSin Man