The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-03-14
.S..TROOPS GUST
FOE IN LORRAINE
LANDED BY FRENCH
FOR RARE QUALITY OF
BRAVERY UNDER FIRE.
BRITISH OCCUPY HIT
SECRETARY BAKER ARRIVES AT
FRENCH SEAPORT ON AMER
fIcAN ARMoREp CRUISER.

Washington, March H.. German
troops in their attack on Lorraine on
the night of March twice gained
footing in the American trenches, only
to be driven out in fierce fighting. An
official dispatch from France giving
the French view of-the encounter said
the Americans showed a rare quality
of courage, selfpossession and calm
bravery which won them the admira-
tion of the neighboring French troops
and the hearty congratulations Of the
French high command"
The American army has lost 95S
men in France and 5.763 men in the
United States in the last seven
months.
Ten or twelve squadrons of bomb
ing aeroplanes participated in the Ger
man raid on Paris. according to Off
cial information. The casualties were
thirteen killed and fifty persons
wounded. One of the raiding machines
was destroyed.
Newton D. Baker, the American sec
retary of war;, with a staff of seven
on an American armored cruiser.
Picking reports that government
troops have suffered a severe reverse
through the capture of Chengtu.
German attacks failed In the Bois
LIE Petre Reillon and Letricourt SEQ
tors, according to the Paris official
statement issued by the war office.
British official communications say
the British have occupied Hit. eighty
miles west Of Bagdad. on the Eu-
pirates river in Mesopotamia, and In
Palestine have made general ad-
vance on both sides of the jerusalem
Nablus road on a front of thirteen
miles to an average depth of from two
to three miles.
Rome, March 9.-Austrian troops
have been sent to France, the Prus-
sian minister OF war announced in the
Reichstag. according to advices re-
ceived from Berne. He refused to
give the number
London-For the first week Of
March, British casualties were 3.34S.
The lowest Of any week for several
months.
London. - Eleven persons were
killed and forty-six others injured
Thursday night in an aeroplane raid on
London, according to the latest police
reports. says an official announcement
1t is feared six more bodies are In the
ruins OF houses.
Seven or eight German planes made
the raid. One reached London and
dropped bombs in the northwest and
southwest districts of London, demol-
ishing several houses.
The Finnish government has asked
the German emperor to appoint Prince
Oscar. the fifth son Of the emperor.
king OF Finland. the Alton Tidningen
of Stockholm says 1t learns from dip
lomatic circles there.
A German attack with liquid fire on
the American forces northwest Of Toul
Tin the st. Mihiel sector) was repulsed
Thursday. according to dispatches re-
ceived in London. On the same front.
1t was reported. American sentries
drove off an enemy patrol Of forty
men.
With the American Army in France.
An American patrol of five men out
fought an enemy patrol OF ten men.
They met in No Mans land and the
Americans opened fire. The Germans
replied and for three minutes there
was a sharp skirmish. The enemy
treated. leaving two dead and two
wounded Bavarians, who were made
prisoners. The American patrol re-
turned to its own line without having
received scratch.
Stockholm.-The American consul at
Helsingfors. Thornwell Haynes. has
advised the American legation here
that he will leave the Finnish capital
with about twenty American residents.
Some 300 refugees of different ma
tionalities. including many Americans.
are at Abo and Bjorneborg and Min
lister Morris has asked the Swedish