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Show FRENCH MAKE SUBSTANTIAL GAINS I IN ALL-NIGHT FIGHT AT VERDUN I German Attacks East of Avocourt Repulsed Teutons Gain H One Point Along Line Berlin Reports Big Successes in H Battles With French, Infliction of Heavy Losses and H Capture of Eleven Officers and 531 Unwound- H ed Prisoners British Capture Turkish H Town Rome Reports Great Activity H on Austro-Italian Lines. H Paris, April, 8 : 02 p. m. A German submarine was sunk H today by a squadron of French and British warships, the min- H istry of marine announced tonight. The crew of the subma- H rine was captured. H IH Queenstown, April 6, 12:45 p. m. The British steamer H Zent has been torpedoed without warning west of Fastnet. H Forty-eight members of her crew are missing and are supposed H to have been drowned. Two men were killed. . Captain Mar-, H tin and nine of the crew have been landed here. H London, April 6, 5:20 p. m. The town of Felahie, in H Mesopotamia, has been captured by the British, it was an- H nounced officially today. All positions gained have been con- H solidated and counter-attacks by the Turks repulsed. H The Felahie is in Mesopotamia below Kut-el-Amara, H where a British force under General Townshend is beleaguered. H It has been the scene of several engagments between Turkish H troops and the invading British forces. This is the second vie- H tory of the British to be reported officially in the last two days. H Washington, April 6. Reports of the American naval H attache at London on his investigation of the destruction of H the liner Sussex received today at the state department agree H with the reports of the attache at Paris that the ship probably H was destroyed by a torpedo; .--.-. h A desperate all-night struggle around Verdun resulted in substantial gains for the French near Avocourt west of the Meuse, according to today's to-day's official Paris report, while east of that position German attacks on French positions were repulsed. At one point along the Avocourt-Bethin-court line, however, it is admitted the Germans succeeded in penetrating French positions. The French ministry of marine announces an-nounces the sinking of a German submarine sub-marine by a squadron of French and British warships. The submarine's crew was captured. The British steamer Zent has been torpedoed without warning, according to a Queenstown dispatch. Two men were killed and forty-eight others probably drowned. The captain and nine of the crew reached Queenstown safely. Throwing hugo masses of men into action, tho German crown prince has renewed his drive against Verdun from tho northwest, attacking tho two principal salients on tho Avocourt-Bethlncourt Avocourt-Bethlncourt front and succeeding in penetrating tho French center by storming tho villge of Haucourt. Paris admits that the Germans secured a footing In the village but declares that it is held under the fire of the French guns from dominating positions. Meanwhile tho French themselves were on tho offensive west of the main section. They sallied forth from Avocourt and successfully carried out an operation for connecting the redoubt re-doubt with another French work on the edge of the woods to the north, occupying a large section of tho area known as "the square woods." " Paris, April 6, 2:10 p. m. The war office announced this afternoon capture cap-ture by the French of a largo portion of the position north of Avocourt, known as Boise Carre, or "square woods." This ground was captured In tho course of fighting which went on all of yesterday afternoon and last night In the Verdun region west of the Meuse on tho Avocourt-Bethin-court line. At one point along tho Avocourt-Bethlncourt Avocourt-Bethlncourt lino Germans succeeded In penetrating French positions. Two attacks were made by German troops against French positions north of Caillette woods, but were without result The text of the communication follows: fol-lows: "In the Argonne a surprise attack delivered by us this morning, on one of the enemy's trenches near the highway high-way of St. Hubert resulted In our Inflicting perceptible losses on our adversaries and In bringing back some twenty prisoners. "During this attack our artillery In the next sector violently bombarded the portion of the Avocoort woods occupied oc-cupied by the Germans. Troops Fight Day and Night "In the region of Verdun the enemy, after tho relative calm of yesterday afternoon, gave evidence of great activity ac-tivity during the evening hours. As the night progressed thero took placo to tho west of tho Meuse a bombardment bombard-ment of extreme violence In tho region between Avocourt and Bethlncourt. This was followed by a series of attacks at-tacks In which large numbers of mou took part against the two principal aallent3 of this front. All the efforts of the enemy against the village of fl Bethlncourt were check by our iH "During this same time the enemy iH delivered a furious attack on the cen- tH ter against the village of Haucourt. H In spite of repeated checks and of iH bloody sacrifices, they were success- iH ful In getting a footing during the H night in this village. We now hold IH the village under the fire of our iB dominating positions. M German Prisoners Taken. lH "On our'slde, after a short prepara- M tory artillery fire, we delivered a spir- H ited attack, our men coming out from M the redoubt of Avocourt, their pur- IH pose being to connect this redoubt M with one of our works situated on tho M boundary line of the wood north of H Avocourt. During this operation H which was In all respects successful, H we occupied a largo portion of the ter- iH rltory known as 'Les Bols Carre" and H took fifty prisoners. IH "East of the Meuse two enemy at- M tacks north of the Caillette wood re- M suited only in serious losses to tho M Germans. M "Thero is nothing to report from tho H ' remainder of the front" M Berlin, April 6, vTa London, 3:40 p. H m. Gorman troops have stormed tho H Tillage of Haucourt on the Avocourt- llH Bethlncourt front northwest of Ver- H dun, the war office announced today. H The text of the official statement H follows- fl "West front: There was great ac- H tlvlty west of the Meuse during the M day, chiefly on account of the prepnr- IH atory fire which we directed against IH the district of Haucourt. During the H afternoon tho activity of our Infantry H became more pronounced. It stormed M the village of Haucourt and the H strongly fortified French point of sup- H port cast of the village. In addition H to very considerable losses in killed IH and wounded, the enemy lost eleven IH officers and 531 unwounded prison- M ers belonging to two different dlvi- H "On tho right bank of the Meuse H the French renewed the attempt H against positions we captured in Call- H lotto forest and northwest of thero H on April 2. This attack was checked H quickly. H "Eastern and Balkan fronts: There H is nothing to report" H Russian War Report. H Petrograd, April 5, 11 p. m. Today's H official communication follows: IH "In the regions of Riga. Jacobstadt H and Dvlnsk there was cannonading IH and rifle firing at many places. H "South oL Dvlnsk numerous aero- H plane flights have occurred. Bombs H and machine guns have been used. H East of Baranovichi Zeppelins were H observed Tuesday night H "Gallcia: West of Tarnopol the en- H emy opened an offensive but was IH repulsed at the pojnt of the bayonet, H abandoning a great number of killed H and wounded close to oar entangle- M ments. North of Latatche our detach- . H ments occupied the village of Sviertz- 9 H kovtzo and surrounding woods. H "Caucasus front: In the Littoral IH the Turks supported by their cruiser H Brcslau attacked our right flank. We H repulsed the attack, inflicting heavy H losses on the enemy. Our troops slm- H (Continued on Pago 7.) H - - -t H FRENCH GAIN If H I I U la O u Itl D (Continued from Page 1.) ultaneously attacked the enemy's center cen-ter and captured a portion of his position. posi-tion. In tho basin of the upper Tcho-ruk Tcho-ruk we dislodged the enemy from a series of his strongly fortified mountain moun-tain positions." France Must Give Assurances. Washington, April '6. France has been asked to give assurances that the rapid fire guns on the liner Vul-cain Vul-cain at Now York will be used for defensive purposes only If the United States clears the ship. Italian War Report. 'Rome, via London, April 5, 10:18 p. m. The following official communication communi-cation was issued today: "In tho Teutonic region and on tho upper Adige there has been the customary custo-mary artillery activity. In tho Chrls-tallo Chrls-tallo zone Monday night after Intense artillery preparations, the enemy opened op-ened a fresh violent attack on our new positions on the Rauchkqfel. The attack at-tack was repulsed with heavy losses and the enemy left some prisoners in our hands. "On the upper and middle Isonzo front there has been an intense artillery artil-lery duel. Enemy detachments attempted at-tempted to break our line east of Pod-sabotlno, Pod-sabotlno, but were thrown back and dispersed. "Enemy airmen yesterday tried to reach Verona, but wero promptly driven driv-en away. Other enemy aviators succeeded suc-ceeded in throwing a few bombs on Bassano. killing two children. On the lower Isonzo and on the Lagune Grando similar aerial attempts wero made and some bombs were thrown on hamlets. Our air squadrons drove the air attackers off. Two of the machines were seen to fall to the ground behind their lines." London, April 5. The British statement state-ment on the campaign In the west issued tonight follows: "Last night wo sprang mines successfully suc-cessfully near Hullch and destroyed a hostile gallery and wrecked posts established In the old craters. Today wo bombarded hostile works near BoIb Grcnler with good effect. "About St. Elol the artillery of both sides was very active. North of tho Ypres-St Jullen road our heavy artillery carried out a successful bombardment bom-bardment doing much damage, to hostile trenches and causing numerous numer-ous explosions." Emperor Nicholas Indignant. Petrograd, April 6, via London, Emperor Em-peror Nicholas has sent a tolegram to tho chief of tho Red Cross service in which he expressed profound indignation indig-nation over the sinking of the Russian Rus-sian hospital ship Portugal and declares de-clares that "the whole world should hear of this outrage." British Deny Shocking Charge. London, April 6. The admiralty officially of-ficially denies an assertion said to have been in tho United States congress con-gress that an American woman was stripped of her clothing beforo men in an examination conducted hy British Brit-ish authorities. According to this denial de-nial all examinations of women are t made by women examiners and in private cabins. Concentrating Canadian Troops. Ottawa, Ont, April 6. As soon as the weather permits troops in training train-ing in Canada will be concentrated for the summer in camps at London, Niagara, Petawawa (with a detachment detach-ment at Barrie Field) Valcartier, (Including (In-cluding Quebec and the maritime province pro-vince men), Camp Hughes, Manitoba, Vernon, B. C, and the Sarceo reserve near Calgary. This information was conveyed to the house yesterday in a memorandum preliminary to passing pass-ing of the vote of $2,500,000 for war purposes. The daily war expenditure of Canada is more than $500,000. Entente Powers Protest. Paris, April 6, 2:15 p. m The entente en-tente powers have complained to the Greek government of arbitrary arrests declared to have been made by the Greek police. The reply to tho complaint com-plaint was not conclusive. A new inquiry will be made and the Greek government it is said, will take measures meas-ures according to the results of the investigation. oo |