Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-01
ATTACK REPULSED
WITH STREAM Of
DEADLY BULLETS
Stray Shell Falls on Ammu-
milton Train, Killing Two
and lnjuring Four.
HUN INVASION OF RUSSIA
SUDDENLY SLOWED DOWN
Declared Orders From Berlin
Are Responsible for Halt
ing of Forces.
COSSACKS RUSHED TO FRONT
Fctrograd Also Sends Out Mixed De.
tachments OF Soldiers to
Battle Teutons.
cossAcks RUSHED TO FRONT
Pctrograd Also Sends Out Mixed De.
tachments Of Soldiers to ~
Battle Teutons.
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American troops in the trenches OF
the Chcmin -dcs- Danes sector ycstcr-
day faced heavy harraEe fire directed
against them by the Germans. accord
inE to reports coming from the Amcri-
can army headquarters on the E'ronch
front. The attack was rcpulscd with
losses TO tho Tcutons
The well-placcd American machine
guns sent streams OF bullets into the
advancing enemy. and. as the German
harraSc fire lifted the American artfl-
lcry quickly laid down IL curtain OF
single prisoner.
There were no American casualties
Five French soldiers were wounded
during the lighting.
The Americans stayed in their dug
outs until tho proper time, when they
! jumped TO the guns and fought like
veterans.
Yesterday one officer and one man
were killed and two wounded by
enemy shell fire One american soldier
was "sassed." The Germans made a
gas attack also in this sector. ffins
! nifty projectiles Of high per cent gas
and twenty high explosive shells.
One American soldier is dead and
N'S'e az ouiSilnS from tNe CTGCtS or
poisonous gas, so far as reportcd. but
it is probable that more casualties viii
develop, as in the Toul sector
The American artillery also oblitcr-
atcd mine throwing position held by
the enemy.
stray German shell fell on an
American ammunition train, killing
TWO and wounding four soldiers &
town behind tho American lines was
shellcd. one soldier being killed and
five wounded \ dozen shells fell in
the town.
The number OF soldiers suffering
from the effects of the recent German
gas attack was increased to-day by
twenty, bringing the total gas casual
ties to eighty.
INVASION OF RUSSIA
/ SUDDENLY SLOWED DOWN
/ Germany's invasion of Russia has
slowed down. During the last twenty
four hours there have been no rcpcr,s
showing that the Tcutons were swcen-
ing ahead with the power shown in the
/ carry days OF the advance toward Pet,
rosFad' and there are indications that
the movement has lost some OF lis
momentum.
/ One explanation OF his fact NAV he
l.
Gated, dispatch from Petrograd. which
states that the German troops have
/ received orders from Berlin to advance
no farther. This would seem to ipd;
cate that the formal peace terms have
bech accepted, and treaty has been
signed by the Teutonic and Bolshcyik
delegates. as the Germans refused to
grant an armistice until peace had becn
negotiated.
/ In spite OF the German report that.
operations on the eastern front are
taking their normal course" and thar
another Esthonian regiment had placed
itSeIl under the command OF the Ger
man staff IL is asserted in Pctrograd
mat the Russian troops have recov-
ered thcir iShtins spirit. and that Cos
SUCKS. as well as mixed detachments OF
soldiers, arc on their way to the front.
CENTRAL POWERS SEND
PEACE TERMS TO ROUMANIA
Ndrices from Bucharest are tc, the
effect that the central powers have
communicated their peace terms 10
King Ferdinand Of Roumania, who has
oeeh granted short period for con-
! S'deration. Recent unofficial dispatches
stated tina, Roumania would be asked i
TO cede parts of l,obrudjG tc Bulgaria
erentiai treatment in commercial, ana
economic relations 1t is officially de-
MED by the Roumanian press bureau
IN Paris that King Ferdinand Will re-
'indush his throne at the behcst of the
antiwar party in his country
Another Spanish Cabinet has fallen.
In some quarters it is reported to hayeS
resulted because OF the insistence Gf,c
the government in adherng to itS
policy OF strict neutrality toward the
heiiiscrcnts in the war. Public opinion !,
IN Spain has become infamed byf the
sinking recently OF five Spanish ye.-
sess by German or Austrian submarines
: FRENCH AND nRTTISH =
RAID GERMAN POSTrIONsR
French and British troops have carr
RED out raiding operations against. stfatE
enemy. The French operations wefS
ceniered at Verdun, and Tho IsngitsHn
| on each side OF the Scarpe River ~
both ,,cascs prisoners were brr1N8f
back .Py tn" raiders. On tho ~ az 3
front there have been oneount,