Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-17 | Page 15 | More Trenches in France Captured

MORE TRENCHES IN FRANCE CAPTURED T ONDON, March 16. 11:12 p. m The British troops In th Somme region reg-ion of Prance have occupied all of the SL Pierre Vaast wood and 300 yardf? of German trenches north and smith of the wood, according to the British official communication issued this evening The communication says: Our advance north of the Somme continues. We now hold nearly the 'Whole of the St. Pierre Vaast wood ' and enemy trencheg for 1,000 yards! 60uth and 2.000 yards north of it. This morning the enemy attacked; one of our posts northeast of the Somme, but was beaten off. We carried car-ried our successful raids during the night south of Arras, east of Souchez I Imtf and east of Vermellea Our troops in-vK' in-vK' flicted many casualties, bombed pov-eral pov-eral dugouts and secured a few prisoners. pris-oners. A number of reconnaissances were carried out successfully yesterday by our airplanes. Several air fights took place, in which four German mahcinoa wpre destroyed and three others wcro driven down damaged, nn