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Show i Violent Battles Raging in Prance; Germans Rush Wounded Home Vni f FRENCH FORCES MAKING FIERCE ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE ST. MIHIEL Heavier Pressure Being Exerted All Along Lines-Germans ;v Deliver Continuous Counter Attacks in South Fifteen Assaults Made at One Point Allies Seeking to Aid n Russia by Preventing Withdrawal of German JC Corps F rom France Berlin Reports Complete Com-plete Failure of French Attacks. BELGIANS LOSE HEAVILY IN FIGHT Battles Between the Meuse and the Moselle Continue With Undiminished Fury Russia Makes Important Captures ! of Guns and War Munitions in Carpathians French Ship Is Sunk by Submarine Off Isle of ! Wight Popular Agitation in Italy In- ; creases Separate Peace Rumors Increase. AUSTRIANS LOSE 26,000 MEN IN BATTLE ALONG DUKLA-EPERIES FRONT Basel, Switzerland. April 1 0, via Paris, 1 1 : 30 a. m. Violent Vio-lent snow storms arc raging in the Vosges mountains but the fighting continues. 1 wo hundred railroad cars filled with German wounded passed through Leopoldshoehc near Basel v, Tt.?sday. Paris, April lit. ia London. 3:25 1 p. m. Tin French war office this iUlernoou gae out an official an- j nomrcement reading ;is iuIIuws. There la nettling to add today to I Lbe official communication of last night, other than the receipt last night ol supplementary reports relating re-lating tlict the iwj attacks, whlcn yesterday made us masters of the lust! German positions at Le.s Sparges, led to a- sperate bayonet fighting Berlin War Statement Berlin. April 10 via Loudon.. 3:55 p. m. The off lciu l war office statement state-ment ul today follows; "The booty taken at Drei Gracbt (in Belgium) was increased to 0 officers, 12H5 men and five machine guns. I "In Champagne. hortb of Beause-.our Beause-.our our troops evacuated trenches i.ikeu on April 4 which were de-siio'l de-siio'l la by French heavy artillery. French auatks in this district dis-trict were repulsed. Furious Fighting Continues. "Battles between the Meuse and the MO ' He continued with the same lierceneBS. Near the villages of i'romezey and GuSBSdnvllle cast or Verduil, "which the french reported bad been taken by them, no fighting has taken placo Up to the present. These villages are situated far in !ront of our positions. "Between the Orne and the heights ol the Meuse the French suffered a heavy defeat yesterday. All their at-taclU at-taclU bruke down under our Hre. in the Combres Hill they obtained a tern nnrtr foothold lu a certain section of our outer line trenches, but were partly driven hack again by a night attack These battles continue Engagements at St. M.hlel Fall. "Attacks against our positions north of St. Mihiel also were entirely without success. Minor advances on , he front at AUly and Apremont ere repulsed Engagements at Hie rey were of a less lively character probabh on account of fosses suffered by the enemy o JLlgJ 8. Two machine guns ere capturea '" On the front at Relmnenville and ,n the forest of Le attacks were repulsed. On era frout of Le Pretere forest the en eSy finally lost that part ot our P Hon Which they penetrated at the end of March. . . French Company Completely Routed, -repeated sttempl to wrest from u fne village of BessngeQrande. southwest of Chateau Sa es was aid for by the 1 Tench with the lpM Jf! company which -as complete outodl while two on. cei. men remained prisoners ... our hands The situation in the OBges -as unchanged. a-n,,tk Russians Everywhere Repulsed lu the eastern theatre: kuwlan. hud no luck MT h ; i eua was unchanged. Review of "War Situation. London Vprll 10 0 ; 7 0 rrenoh, with Lhc capture o Ljj W l TTrmrh is r.nr!onTT"d o inan: I southern ftenk is threatened by the French advance between f-'ont-a pilous-son pilous-son and the Meuse. In the southern pari "of this field of operations the Germans are delivering almost continuous contin-uous counter attacks. They have made fifteen assaults on one point. It is evident that the French are trying to caDture St Mihiel which has always al-ways been a dangerous point since the wedge was driven into the line of the allies, and at the same time are seeking seek-ing to aid Russia by preventing the withdrawal of German corps for relief, of the hard pressed German and Aus triad forces in the Carpathians. Rumors that Austria is about to conclude a separate peace grow iu number and persistency every dav These are accompanied by eviden-( eviden-( es that Italy is showing Increasing uneasiness over the situation It is also reported that the decision has been reached at Vienna to Bend Russia Rus-sia peace terms The official organ of the vatican denies the report that Austria has requested the assistance lot' the pope in the negotiations. ' Russia Makes Important Captures. Russia Is said to have made Import ant captures of guns and wai munitions muni-tions In the Carpathians. What is represented as Information from tho Austrian general staff is that In the battle along the Dukla-Eperles front the Ausirians lost 26 000 men. Popular agitation in Italy concerning concern-ing the attitude of that country has Increased to a point which has necessitated neces-sitated energetic action by the authorities author-ities to prevent disorders. The factions fac-tions for and against war have ar- j ...... i I n .-- Pa tninnrrnu' rangen mass iiici-uiib.) i which their leaders say will be held in spite of a police prohibition. v. French ship sailing from London for New York, has been sunk by a German submarine off the Isle of Wight The Germans allowed the erew of 25 ten minutes in which to quit their vessel and all were saved A wrecked British schooner has been sighted off the American coast and is believed to have been attacked by a German warship several weeks ago Many Serbian Doctor Die. 'lbe death roll of Serbian doctors form tvphus fever is very heavy During Dur-ing the last two months 107 doctors out of 452 have lost their lives. |