Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-17 | Page 3 | Plan Offensive on West Front

PLAN OFFENSIVE ON WEST FRONT Premier Lloyd George and War Council Hold Conference Confer-ence With Army Commanders. Com-manders. Paris, Jan. 16. There is a possibil-itv possibil-itv that another big offensivr by the ' entente allies in Belgium and France i in contemplation. A two day conference confer-ence has been held in London between Premier Lloyd-George and his war council and the British and French .commanders-in-chief. While nothing 1 has been made public concerning the conference from ofheial sources, ex- cept that it is described as "important." "import-ant." an ofheial dispatch declares thai it differed from the conference recent-Iv recent-Iv held in Rome in that military in- 1 stead of diplomatic questions took pre- i cedence. Quiet Prevails on All Fronts slde from Rumania, quiet. continues con-tinues to prevail on all the other fighting fronts, where there have ! been only bombardments and operations opera-tions bv small detachments. No mention Is made by either Berlin or Petrograd of the battle begun last week In the Riga region and which j for several days and seemed to be decreasing in intensity. Berlin reports re-ports engagements south of Smorgon, I which lies between Vilna and Minsk. Hard fighting continues in the re ! gion of Vadeni, southwest of ;,ilai. in the' Rumanian theatre. The Rus-sions Rus-sions on both sides of Fundeni suffered suf-fered heavy casualties in two attacks at-tacks delivered against the German i line, according to Berlin. In one : of the attacks Russian detachments entered German trenches, but later were expelled Another Russian at- ( tack was delivered against the Teutonic Teu-tonic allies between the Kasino and i Suchitza valleys. It also was re ! pulsed, the Teutons taking 200 men ! prisoner. oo-