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Show RUSSIANS LOSE 140,000 MEN i IN GREAT FIGHT WITH GE1ANS 111 Thirty Divisions Attack Large Sectors on Von Hindenburg,s j Front With Unheard of Expenditure of Ammunition , I Germans Hold Line With Tenacious Endurance j'.l - Verdun Fight Continues With Teutons Bring- tJ, 1 ing Up Enormous Numbers. j ! 1 i Paris, April 1, 12 noon. German forces delivered two heavy attacks last night In the Verdun region east of the Meuse. The war office announced an-nounced this afternoon that one attack at-tack gained the Germans a footing in the village of Vaux. The other attack was repulsed. WeBt of the river there was a violent vio-lent bombardment in the region of Malancourt The text of the communication says: "North of the Alsne there has been considerable activity of artillery in the vicinity of Molln-Sous-Touvent and Fontenoy. "In the Argonne we have directed a destructive fire on the highways and railway lines north of Haute Chevau-chee. Chevau-chee. "West of the Meuse there has been an intermittent bombardment in the region of Malancourt but without any infantry engagements. "Exceedingly Violent Bombardment "East of the Meuse the bombardment bombard-ment became exceedingly violent yesterday yes-terday evening and last night between the wood south of Haudremont and the region of Vaux. Against this latter lat-ter point the Germans delivered two sudden attacks In which large num-! num-! bers of men took part Tho first, from I both the north and the south at the tain of fire and the force of our Infantry Infan-try before it could get as far as our lines. ,,. "During the"""second attack the enemy, en-emy, after a very spirited fight, was able to secure a footing In the western west-ern part of the village of Vaux, occupied occu-pied by our forces. "In the Woevre there has been some active artillery firing against the villages vil-lages at tho base of the heights of the Mouse. "From the rest of tho front there is nothing to report" Russians tose 140,000 Men. Berlin, April 1, by wireless to Say-vllle. Say-vllle. Russian casualties in the recent re-cent offensive on the northern part of tho line were not less than 140,000 men, the German war office estimated today. 4 Berlin, April 1. Wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. The official stitement of today to-day from general headquarters Is as follows: "Western front: Near St. Elol an attack with hand grenades by the British was repulsed. There was rigliting with mines between La Bas-see Bas-see canal and Neuville. "Northeast of Roye the fire of tho French artillery was very spirited. Germau artillery effectively bombarded bombard-ed the enemy on the Alsne front "There were violent artillery duels In the Argonne and In the sector of the Meuse. "German battle aircraft shot down four French aeroplanes. Of these one fell within our lines near Laon and another near Mogevllle In the Woevre. Two fell behind the enemy's lines, one near Ville Aux Bois and the other south of Haucourt Tho French aerodrome at Rosnay, west of Rhelms, was attacked with many bombs." Russian Offensive Exhausted. "Eastern front: There were no developments de-velopments of importance. The Russian Rus-sian offensive apparently Is exhausted exhaust-ed for the moment "From February 28 to March 2S the Russians attacked large sectors or Field Marshal von Hlndenburg's front with thirty divisions or more than 500,000 men and with such an expenditure expen-diture of ammunition as until now had been unheard of on the eastern front Thanks to the bravery and tenacious te-nacious endurance of the German troops, the Russians have had no success suc-cess at all. "The Russian casualties, according to cautious calculations, wero not fewer than 140,000 men." Germans Drop 800 Bombs. Berlin, March 31, wireless to Tuck-erton, Tuck-erton, N. J. A Bulgarian official communication from Sofia made public pub-lic by the Overseas News Agency says: "A German air squadron composed of fifteen aeroplanes on March 27 1 J dropped 800 bombs n the port of - j Salonlkl and the Anglo-French camps. I An explosion was observed In -a shed j near a railway station and on an' en- m I'j; emy's ship. Enemy aeroplanes at: '' ! tacked the Germans but without sue- I cess. Four of the enemy's aeroplanes J, . were forced to land. The re3t .w,ith:. 1 drew." t " I Advance of Germans. j Berlin, via Copenhagen to London, j' April 1, 8:05? mi The main head- , , quarters correspondent of the Vos- - slsche Zeltung sends the following re- j port on the advance of Che Germans at j i J Malancourt: - 11 j ; "The thunderous work of the artil- j I J lerj- again furnished the prelude to ' j J a successful resumption of Infantry i( S activity west of the Meuse. Contin- jj I uous arllllery fire suddenly lncreas.- j ed to gigantic violence and, like an , L' immense thunderstorm, the explosions i J rattled unceasingly across the rolling i countryside. They sounded as If a MB huge depot of ammunition had oxplod- ! 1 I ed, detonating thousands of shells in I j j Vj apparently endless series. After sev- fA eral hours, the terrible medley sud- -j , denly ceased and the assault was i iB mado successfully with but slight loss ? to the Germans. The German post- ' j ft this advance at Malancourt The Ger- ' mans were ablo to press into the vll- ' j B Vt lago Itself andto-reaoh-tho first row i p of houses on the northern side which i were the most strongly fortified. "I had an opportunity today to in- I spect the booty so far taken in the , Verdun battle. The quantities of weapons, munitions, uniforms and sup- ,f plies of all sorts which were accumu- J j ! latlng here are Incalculable." ' j London, April 1,'1:40 P. in. -Lloyd'ril j ! i reports the sinking of the. Norwegian ,1 ! I r steamship Nome, of 1,224 tons and i j of the British schooner John Pritch- ! ard of US tons. The crews of both ,j I vessels were rescued. j' I Rome, April 1, via Paris, 5 a. m. I j I The Duke of Avarna, who was Italian j D ambassador to Austria-Hungary when ( , I Italy declared war on Austria, Is dead. " j Swiss to Enter Protest. f ,1! Geneva, April 1, via Paris, 12:25 W p . a. m. The Swiss government says , , , In a public statement that it seems i ( i'- proved that tho two aviators who ! dropped five large bombs Friday on me owjss iowii oi ruremruy, near uiu mi t French frontier, were Germans for ! attached to the bombs which failed j! 1 to explode were instructions for their , J use printed In German. I j The federal council has Instructed , the Swiss minister in Berlin to pro- test strongly against this further vio- latlon of the neutrality of Swltzer- , land and to demand prompt and com- i I , plcte satisfaction, punishment of tho ' ; aviators and payment of Indemnity for the damage caused. nn IP |