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Show Shatter DEFENSE British and French Forces in Northern France Capture Five Additional Villages; Haig's Gain Comprises Strip of Territory Northeast of Peronne. FRENCH REPULSE COUNTER-ATTACKS Troops of King George Ji Mesopotamia Re-jitT Re-jitT port Forward Move-nent Move-nent and Again Face the Turkish Army, Reinforced Re-inforced by Fresh Units. British efforts to drive a salient into I the German lines between Marcoing and fit. Qucutin continue successfully. I Seven villages o'n a front of ten miles between and including Vermsfiul and HomUcourt were occupied Saturday, according ac-cording to tlie latest official statement frum British headquarters in France. Mnrteville, Vermaud and Soyceourt, six to eight miles northwest of !St. Quen- tin, were occupied with little opposition from the Germans, but British artillery drove the defenders from the village of I St. la'milio, cast of Villors-Faucon and j on the railroad running south from Mar- coing. Along the Cologne river, a small stream, the British advanced and captured cap-tured Jcancourt, Hervilly and Heudt-court. Heudt-court. Advance Admitted. Berlin officially admits that the Brit ish advance reached Heudicourt and St. Kmilio, but declares that a British attack at-tack north of Mctz-En-Oouturo, north l of Heudicourt. was repulsed. Further north, in the region southeast of Arras, there has been bitter fighting. ' v.Ttio British report the capture of Vvtfidocourt nud the destruction of sev-eraKosts sev-eraKosts near oust-St. Mein and Henin-Sur-Co,ieul. Near the latter place. Berlin save, an engagement resulted favorably fa-vorably for the Germans. Northeast of Soissons the French have made progress and, Paris says, have repulsed re-pulsed two Gorman eonntor-at.taeks in the reirion of Vregny. Berlin reports that, the French were defeated in attacks at-tacks against German positions on the Vregny plateau. Germans Take Prisoners. In the Bystritwi valley, near the Hungarian-Rumanian frontier, on the eastern east-ern front, German troops have taken 200 prisoners. North of the Pripet marshes, near Novo Grodek, Berlin savs, German enterprises resulted in the 'capture of Boveuty-five prisoners. Tho forward movement of the British force in Mesopotamia has brought them to within thirty miles of the Persian ' frontier. Progress of the British troops in Mesopotamia has brought them in contact, con-tact, with the Turkish armv that retreated re-treated from Knt-el-Amara and which now has been reinforced by fresh units. Povero fighting has taken place near .lebel Ra nin and Iir.il Kobat, nt;ir the I Dinlu river in Mesopotamia. DIFFERENCE IN REPORTS AS TO NAME OF VILLAGE LONDON. March 31, 9:40 p. m.Thc official report from the British headquarters head-quarters in France tonight reads: Hendecourt (!) was captured hv our troops yesterday evening. Considerable Con-siderable progress has Fince been veas'wnrd of the village aud a ?cw additional prisoners and raa-chine raa-chine guns fell into our hands. We also pained possession of the f (Continued on Page Fotntoen.) i " SLUES SMASH GENII LINES I DN WEST FRONT British and French Troops Capture Five Villages and Gain Much Ground; Turks Retreat. ! (Continued on Pago Two.) villa'.s of MarfevilU, Vnrmand j ni, JSovcnurt with lit, In oppoBiion j J' rom tliM enemy and forced h$ I troopM to rctirn from St. Kmilie un-(nr un-(nr tlio fire of our artillery. Wo th m ocf'iijiii'ii tlio vilhio. 'I'oda v our (id vanco was to.hu me d r.lnn t It n valley of the Culotfno jivnr and lh village of Jeancourt, flttrvilly and Hmidicourt wero captured cap-tured hy our troops. Further north we rarriM two IiosUIh yot.tn in tho neitfh borhoocl of I'.coiiMt ht. Mein, in spite of consul- enibU) resistance. Other posts held j hy tho enemy west of Honin-8ur- i t o.jeul wero rushed by a small party (' our troops, who, after killing or i ; rapturing tliu whole arriaon, with- ' I d rmv with their pri boners and a ; hostile machine gun. j U,i carriiirl out aucepssful raids t hi 4 morning and during tho niht iiofthoaHt ol Nouville tit. Vaast, cast of Loos and north of Ypres. 1 Several duou ts and machine puns a ore do.-r j o yed and prisoners were taken. Kiuly thin morning a small i hostile raiding party near Neuvilla St.. Vnant failed to reach our i reaches. I Siiecessfnl work was carried out hy our Implanon yesterday in spito ; of unfavorablo woatlier. tine hostile ; machine wnt driven down out of control; two of our machines are m iswi n!. ' Tho only village along tho British front in France by the name of Honde-cotirt Honde-cotirt in lleudeoourt loz (Jagnicourt, ly- ing to tho northeast of Croisxllcs, around which there hap been much fighting of latn. Iloudicourt ifi a fow miles north of ! ..Roisol and about fifteen miles north- , tv.it. of St. Quentin. |