New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-03-15
U.S.. TROOPS GUST
FOE IN LORRAINE
AMI RICANS LANDED BY FRENCH
FOR RARE QUALITY OF
BRAVERY UNDER FIRE.
BRITISH OCCUPY hit
SECRETARY BAKER ARRIVES At
FRENCH SEAPORT ON AMER
IcAN ARMoRED CRUISER.

Paris, March 12.-Newton d. Baker,
the American secretary OF war, arrived
in Paris. lie was received by General
Pershing, Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, the
American chief of staff: French Off
GERS representing Premier C~lemenceau
and Ambassador Sharp. The secre-
tary's voyage was without incident.
Rome.-Austrian troops which ap-
parently were making an attempt to
cross the river Pave were prevented
from doing so by the Italian batteries
which sunk RATS and boats in the
river opposite Fagare.
Naples was attacked by enemy avi-
ators early Monday morning. Twenty
bombs were dropped in a residential
quarter. The victims included seven
occupants OF a hospital.
American and French soldiers, oper-
ating together in Lorraine have con-
Quoted successful raids on widely-sep-
arated sectors, demolishing German
trenches at three points to the width
of 100 meters and depth of 300 meters.
The Amsterdam Weser Zeitung of
Bremen says the majority parties OF
the Reichstag intend to insist upon
complete clearness regarding status OF
the former Russian border states be-
fore ratification of the peace treaty
with Russia.
Stockholm, March ~12.-lieavy fight
ing is continuing in Finland between
the Finnish White Guard and the
Russian Red Guard troops, according
to an official statement issued at
Vasa. Violent encounters are report
ed on the Satakunta and SavalakO
fronts. S%anguinary fighting is pro-
ceeding by day and by night, without
interruption at Ahvola, in Karelia.
The statement announces that the
Russians, despite enormous losses in
the Ahvola fighting, kept continually
throwing fresh forces into the fray.
Washington. March II. German
troops in their attack on Lorraine on
the night of March 4 twice gained a
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, self possession and calm
ton 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 s~quadrons 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
rotary of war, with a staff of seven
persons. arrived at a French seaport
on an American armored cruiser.
Picking reports that government
troops have suffered a sever reverse
through the capture of C%hengtu.
German attacks failed in the Bots
lie Petre Reillon and LetricOurt Sec
tors, according to the Paris official
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 a general ad-
vance on both sides of the jerusalem
Nablus road on a front of thirteen
miles to al average depth Of from two
to three miles.