Show SORTIE J i EAD ILL FILL TRENCH tR ENd I LONDON April 9 Report Report of a sanguinary engagement near on the western vestern battle line reached here today According to the dispatch the British troops stormed a n line of trenches In the face Cace of or a terrific ar artillery artillery ar- ar tillery fire killed practically all the defenders and held the line in the face of several counter attacks bythe bythe by hy hythe the Germans The battle started on April 7 and continued through the thc night until the next da day According to the correspondent the Germans opened hostilities when they attempted to drive the Britons back Germans Force Wire His description of ot the tho battle fol- fol lows lowR Alter After an hours hour's hea heavy cannonading a file of or German Infantry advanced ance against the wire entangle lc- lc ments menta Despite dead deadly rifle fire from tho th trenches the they succeeded in breakIng breaking break break- Ing through h. h Then for near nearly half an hour a desperate hand to hand conflict raged r In the trenches Twice the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans held the line twice th the British recaptured It Finn Finally tho the Germans be bean began began be- be gan an to retreat The British followed close closely and turned d the retreat Into a dl disorderly orderly rout The English soldIers soldiers entered the German Ocr Ger man line lino on the heels of ot the retreating T uton and again the tho hand to hand II fight ht was renewed rinal Finaly y a handful of ot Germans all Germans all who survived the en engagement engagement en- en fled tied In disorder The Tho tr trenches were filled with hO bodies of ot dead doad and wounded Losses on both sides Bides were heay heavy Cannon Captured The British also the capture of ot trenches In the wood at nt A AlIt Six machine guns and two trench mortars were taken according to tho the report Tho The French movement between the Mouse and the tho Loraine frontier Is de developing do- do a distinct offensive c with G General Gen Con n- n eral oral Joffre JoHre pushing his advance while the tho Germans are arc making fierce counter attacks This Is the substance of or the I latest l st dispatches reaching London from rota the tho continent According to an analysis of ot the situation situation situa situa- tion ion b by the French general staff the offensive movement of ot the last few W days das has been on three sections The Tho first Is on a front of fourteen miles to the tho cast caRt of 01 Verdun tho the actual line running southeast from a n point near Etain the second on a front be between between between be- be tween St St. Mihiel ani and Pont-a-Mousson Pont where the French ar are arc attacking from the south and the third I Is in the north I In the vicinity of ot Gussainville where the French now dominate the valley of ot tho Orno and are arc threatening the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road beyond the River Orne with at at- at I tack Gain New Ground The Tue French advance ance is thus being pressed from throe three bases base In different different dif dir ferent forent directions According to Paris official reports French forces on fronts man many miles long have occupied n new w grounds measuring from rota several se hun hun- die yards arcIs to two mile deep That the German resistance to these o advances has bas been stubborn Is strikingly lr Indicated Indi rated by the French report that the G Germans on one point of ot the attack left 1000 dead on the field GENEVA r A. A via Paris April 9 9 10 R. R a. a m m. Railroad R. rolling stock alock Is being withdrawn withdrawn with with- drawn by hy Hal Italy from tho the Swiss frontier It Is Ie reported here for tor the transportation transports transports- tion lion of or troops and military stores In northern Ital Italy destined for the rc region ion bordering on the Austrian Tyrol The I Lausanne Gazette states state H that the towns of ot Mantus Verona and Legnago o. o which formed the fortresses fortresses fort fort- in the famous quadrilateral are arc garrisoned with fully equipped troops which lack only heavy artillery and this will bo ho soon An aerial fleet IB is ready rendy for oJ er A Milan dispatch to a Zurich newspaper news news- p paper per says that at nt a mass mans meeting held last night and attended h by five tl Liberal deputies from Milan III n a resolution resolution tion was waB adopted characterizing as absolutely ab nb- ab- ab necessary ary the participation of or Ital Italy in the war |