Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-01 | Page 1 | Say Charge Swept French Away

s 's SAY sY CHARGE FRENCH AWAY I ERLIN March 1 Wireless to Say- Say German corr correspondents at the 22 dun front state that on February German troops gained an amount of ot ten square kilometres less mcl md on only ilie lie total captured by the French In heir whole offensive movement ment last fall li ha German attack was carefully i heavy shelling of ot the Jared ared by rich defensive works in the forests re re barbed wire had been tied from Ito to tree The wire intermingled branches b tf bl the trees formed ad ading a ading particularly well de- de d ding ng barrier to resist artillery attack the German troops charged Then nen through these not ot only swept but advanced beyond more ns ant defense works before beCore the ther r rich h were able to rally their scat scat- The corrEs corrE's correspondents r ret re- re t tithe the he early reports that the Ger- Ger small 1 losses were surprisingly lj lethe the French on a account count of oC the collaboration of the German and artillery suffered heavy laities It Is said that h hundreds of ot I In n rich l dead crowded closely together in some small sections The h line was broken on both sides S ike he roads leading northward from dun S 'S