Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 10 | French Capture 2 Forts and Push forward 4 Miles

FRENCH CAPTURE 2 FORTS AND PUSH FORWARD 4 MILES PARTS, March 24, 10:55 p. m. Two of the advance forts in the defensive system of La Fere, a strone point on the Hinden-burgr Hinden-burgr line, have been captured by the French, who also have occupied the west bank of the river Oiso from the outskirts of La Fere as far north as Vendeuil. a distance of about four miles. The new French success is chronicled in the official offi-cial report tonight, which adds that several sev-eral villages on the east bank of the Ailette river a Iso have heen taken, the German rear guards being driven back. The text reads: North of the Somme w have forced back the enemy to the outskirts out-skirts of Savy, where he had established estab-lished himself in a line of trenches prepared in advance from the Somme to the Oise. Our troops, continuing their success, suc-cess, gave battle to the enfimy, who defended himself foot by font, and pushed him about one kilometer north of Grand ieraucourt and Gtber-court, Gtber-court, occupying the west bank of the Oise from the outskirts of La Fere as far north as Vendeuil. Two advance forts of the defensive system of La Fere fell into our hands. South of the Oise, in spite of the inundations effected by the enemy, we made important progress on the east bank of the Ailette. regaining regain-ing several villages and rompelling the German rear guard to retire. , In the lower section of the forest of Coucy, north of Soissons, there fs little change. We found numerous German dead in the trenches taken by us yesterday north of Marpival. About 12 o'clock today a German long-range gun fired several shells of heavy caliber on the town of Sola-sons. Sola-sons. Artillery fighting has been quite marked in the regions of Berry -a u-Bac u-Bac and Rheims, as well as in Alsare in the direction of Violu-Py, tsoutli of Col de Sainte Marie. Aviation : On March 23 Adjutant Ortoly brought down his fifth German Ger-man airplane. Today our special guns brought down a German machine, which fell in our lines near Ii Veuve (Marneh. This afternoon a German hydro-airplane, proceeding in the direction di-rection of Btretat (north-northeast of Havre), was captured at sea. On March 23 one of oBr airplanes air-planes from a low altitude bombarded bom-barded an aviation ground at Ma-rimbois, Ma-rimbois, north of Thiaucourt. A violent tire broke out in the hangars. han-gars. On Thursday and Friday nights our air squadrons dropped 1100 kilograms of projectiles on' factories fac-tories at Thionvifle and the Briey basin, as well as on the railway station at Conflans. Belgian communication:. Tho Belgian batteries counter-shelled the German artillery which bombarded bom-barded the regions of Dixmude and Hteenstraete. There was grenade gren-ade fighting north of Dixmude. Eastern theater: xsTo event of importance im-portance has occurred. On March l!3 a violent bombardment on both sides took place. The enemy directed di-rected numerous incendiary shells against Monasti r. British hydroplanes hydro-planes bombarded Paradcsta, Ken- ; ali aud Orfano. - !