Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-17 | Page 1 | German Forces Are Retiring

GERMAN FORCES ' AREJETIRING Troops Abandon Trenches to British and French on Western Front. LIVELY FIGHTING ON Allied Prisoners Brought in From Various Points Along the Line. BERLIN, March 17. (Wireless to Sayville.) A further retirement of the German forces on the western front between Sailly and St. Pierre-Vaast wood and also between Beauvraignes and Lasslgn was announced toda by the war office. The statement follows: "Between La Basse canal and the Ancre there was lively artillery fire. At several points British reconnoiter-mg reconnoiter-mg detachments were repulsed. "Between Sailly and St Pierre-Vaast wood, British, and between Beauvraignes Beauv-raignes and Lassigny French detachments detach-ments settled in trenches which had been abandoned by us. "On the Aisne front we took thirty-five thirty-five prisoners. In the Champagne there was strong artillery fire for a 'ime. Between the Mouse and Moselle1 German thrusting detainments at four different places brought in prisoners from the enemy's lines. "In a successful surprise attach near Moncel on the Lorraine frontier twenty twen-ty Frenchmen were taken prisoner. "German aviators by air attacks brought down four captive balloons."