The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-04
BELCIANS REPEL HEADQUARTERS
 AT YSER RIVER
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 "The Allied war council now is in continuous session, assuring complete unity and f1exibility of control.
 "The British have extended their front
 "Our own forces have taken over a sector northwest of Foul. In addition number of our detached units are in action in Champagne and the mo- mentum of battle is increasing.
 We have but to note the occur rences of the last week in our own sector in Lorraine in order to gain an idea of what is taking place. Patrols have been very active. Early in the week the enemy made two attempts to reach our lines but was driven off by machine gun fire. On March 1 the enemy developed a sharply driven at- tack. After a short struggle the hos tile detachment was repulsed. "The Germans now are using gas along our front. Our men are be- coming accustomed to this weapon. l Our gas masks are efficiently protect | i've. Our artillery was very busy shelling enemy dispositions and in- f1icted considerable damage on gun and mortar emplac ements. Important troop movements took place behind the German lines oppo- site our front.
 'In spite of the low visibility hos tile aircraft continued active and made frequent incursions over our lines.
 l !, T Do,, lively encounters took place. A French raid against the German out posts in which a number of Ameri- can volunteers participated, was very successfully carried through.
 On Feb. "A the French executed a coup de main, destroying hostile de- fensive works and shelters near As bach. ill upper Alsace. Small raids in Champagne and Lorraine were also recorded. The enemy also was driven back while attempting to react in the vicinity of the Butte du Mesnil and the Chemin des Danes.
 "The boldest enterprise undertaken by the enemy during the week took l place north of Dixmude. Here, after | prolonged artillery preparation, the enemy tried to throw bridge across the Yser. The Belgians successfully l prevented six successive attempts to tempts to push this operation to suc- cessful conclusion.
 "The new trend of events in Russia has no doubt modified German plans to a certain degree. For the time being the enemy continues to advance eastward. Following the highways and railroads six columns of invasion along a 700 mile front are operating in careful coordination. In Estho-
 mia the enemy has reached a point
 approximately 100 miles from Petro.
 grad. In Livonia Jurjev, 160 miles
 east of Riga, has been entered. The
 column moving on Vitebsk is ad.
 vancing at an average rate of 16 miles
 daily and has passed beyond Pskov This force has met with some opposi tion. After the capture of Minsk the hostile enemy operating in thi:
 area continued it's advance and is ap
 parently headed for Smolensk and it Z ultimate objective, should it continu, to find it's course unimpeded, would
 be to cut off and possibly occup. Moscow.
 '"The fifth column, operating in th' s Pripet sector, also is converging or Smolensk and Moscow as a final ob q jective. The sixth column. composed a of Austrian forces operating in Vol hynia, owing to the favorable recep S ton the Austrians have received a the hands of the Ukrainians, has beer a able to advance more than 200 mile 2 into the interior and is reported to b A within 60 miles of Kieff. The Russians are believed to b. J preparing to stem the tide of inva { sion. Petrograd is being prepared t s withstand siege.
 'In the Caucasus the region iron s the lake of Van to the Black Sea 7 again in Turkish hands. In the dis ? tricts reoccupied by the Turks it : stated that they are massa creing tn d Armenians.
 5. "In Palestine the British are i $ close contact with. the Turks, who ar $ retreating northward through tn
 valley of the Jordan. In Mesopota
 mia the British are advancing up tn
 Euphrates and have arrived in tn IT vicinity of Hit, which is reported