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THE
WAR.
JAPAN AND THE SIBERIAN SITUATION.
NATURE OF ACTION CONTEMPLATED.
THE
GREAT ENEMY ACTIVITY ON WESTERN FRONT. RAIDS ON BRITISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN POSITIONS.
GERMANO-RUSSO-ROUMANIA NEGOTIATIONS.
Franco-Gelgian Fronl
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BRITISH FRONT.
PORTUGUESE PATROL
ENCOUNTERS.
LONDON, March 1st.
German attacks on the French north of the Aisne and in Champagne, extending altogether to 12 miles. These operations are regarded as a prelude to a German offensive, which is now expected any day. The fact that they were carried out chiefly at night suggests that they are intended to, matk bigger preparations in the Ger-
OMI DAILY PRENS
There was a violent bombardment at
| night-time south-west of Butte-du-Mesnil and fairly strong artillery Bring on the left of the Meuse.
MONDAY, MARCH - 418.
SKILFUL SEAMANSHIP SAVES |
SWEDISH BARQUE.
AMSTERDAM, March 2nd.
A British tug towing the Swedish Enemy raids in Lorraine and the barque Mariland, from Rotterdam to Vosges were repulsed.
England, was attacked by six German seaplanes
A communique states: There is an intense artillery duel in the region north and north-west of Rucima and in
Champagne, in the region of the heights
Bouthwest of Butte-du-Mcenil, **, the
enenly, after being driven out by counter- attacks from some points at which he had penetrated this morning, was again assaulted by French forces. After
several unsuccessful attempts with heavy losses, the enemy regained a footing in part of the positions wo captured on February 15th.
The most skilful seamanship by the master of the tug saved the barque, and both on returning to the Hook of Holland were bespattered with bullets. Russian Front.
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RUSSIAN FRONT. GERMAN REPORT.
LONDON, March 1st.
The enemy violently bombarded our
A wireless German official report first lines on the front at Beaumont and states:--Advancing eastwards along the Chaumewood, and also at Suchepiey, northern Frontier of Ukraine we reached where a big raid was repulsed at two the Dnieper.
points last night.
In to-day's attacks the American troops
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reman rear. It is not unlikely that Chamcontacted with special raiding troops.
ports: The Portuguese captured some prisoners in patrol encounters.
There was hostile artillery firing
tween Ribecourt and the Scarpe
Drugine will be chosen for the German at-
tempt to reach Paris, because the ency bewould thus be able to reinforce his flanks against a British attack on the coast or a French attack through Alsace.
Correspondents at British Headquar
We captured during February 312 pri soners and 20 machine gune,
We encountered near Rjetschiza a strongly fortified bridgebend defended by the enemy.
The Americans everywhere held their We stormed and captured the town and lines intact and inflicted appreciable railway station, and captured a few
losses, capturing prisoners. ENEMY ARTILLERY VERY FEEBLE.
PARIS, March and.
-A communiqué states:In the region
Our airmen bombed dumps southwarda ters describe the weather as again wintry of Rheims and Champagne the enemy of Lille and railway sidings at Cour and bad for aerial visibility, and not artillery has been very feeble.
trai and Deynze.
One of
of ours is missing.
Our night-fliers between hailstorms dropped four tons of bamba on an aero, drome between Tournai and Mons and on billets at Douai.
All our machines returned.
-SUCCESSFUL RAIDING.
favouring a large offensive action.”
FRENCH FRONT.
ENEMY THROWN BACK WITH
- HEAVY LOSSES.
March let.
communiqué states: Two enemy Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig recolumns last night attacked east of ports:--We successfully raided northward of the Ypres Staden railway,
There was reciprocal artillery firing in the neighbourhood of La Vacquarie and eastward of Ypres.
RAIDS AND COUNTER RAIDS,
LONDON, March 2nd."
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig to ports-The Norfolks successfully raided southward of Armentieres. Our patrols in the neighbourhood of ⠀⠀ Arleux-en- Gobelle brought in prisonera
Chavignon, but were thrown back with heavy losses, after violent hand-to-hand fighting.
Another attempt east of Corbeny was equally unsuccessful.
There was lively mutual artillery bring
betwesa Ailette and the Aisne and in the
sector of Rheims, where a civil hospital was set on fire and systematically bom barded during the fire
The onery bombarded dur frst lines in Champagne at night time, notably in The enemy attempted night raids at the mountainous region of Suippe and several points.
Two raiding parties in the direction of Butte-du-Mesnil, west entered our lines in the St Quentin of which an enemy attack was driven sector. A few of our troops are missing back, except at one point. A few of the enemy reaching our trenches Simultaneously, a powerful enemy raid in a third raid in the neighbourhood of east of Suippe was completely defeated,
There was considerable artillery firing Hargicourt, were all killed or captured.
After a heavy bombardment this morn in Wosyre- ing on a wide front northward of Neuve Chapelle, a strong party attacked and entered the Portuguese front trenches.
An immediate counter-attack ejected the enemy, completely restoring the situa tion.
We repulsed other raids in the neigh bourhood of the Ypres-Comines canal and southward of Houthulst Forest.
GREAT ACTIVITY OF ENEMY RAIDERS.
LONDON, March 3rd-
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haigre ports:-Enemy raiders showed
great activity last night all along the British front.
One of our crews carried out a photo- graphic reconnaissance as far as Merine burg, 80 kilometres behind the lines.
ARTILLERY FIGHTING AND
ENEMY ATTACKS,
PARIS, March 2nd.
A. communiqué states:--There was in- tense artillery fighting at many points from Chemin-des-Dames to the Meuse.
We repulsed enemy raids south-east and south of Juvincourt.
The French since this morning bave completely re-established their lines at Pompille. The attack against the place on the March 1st was cffected by two hattalions
There was lively cannonading on the right of the Meuse, at Hill 344, and north of Bezon vaux,
AMERICANS REPULSE GERMAN: RAIDERS
LONDON, March 2nd,, Reuter's Correspondent with the Ameri. con army in France reports:-On March let, in a vigorous German raid in the Toul soctor early in the morning, 240 Prussians, after heavy artillery firing,
hundred prisoners
We scized at Mosyr six armoured-boats, 36 moter-boats, and six hospital-boats,
We reached the Kieff-Shmerinka rail way, near Fastoff and Kasatin, and hastened to assist the Polish Legionaries gaged against superior numbers south westward of Staro and Konstantinoff. The enemy was defeated.
1915.
AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.
HURHORS OF A LONG SIEGE.
PETROGRAD, March 2nd,
"The Defence Committee of Petrograd, în an appeal to the workers in Russia, aske
JAPAN AND SIBERIA, SITUATION CAUSING APPRE
HENSION IN CHINA,
LONDON, March 2nd-
Messages from Peking and Shong hai
the corn-growing Governments to send indicate that the situation in Siberia is wheat and foodstuffs to the capital, which causing apprehension and unrest in will probably have to endure the horrors China. of a long siege The appeal also denies that the Government is leaving Petro-
grad.
The Central Government are preparing to reinforce the Chinese troops,
A meeting of the Chino-Russian Rail- way authorities at Peking decided to GERMANY AND ROUMANIA, maintain the working of the railway.
PRISONERS ARMED TO OPPOSE THE COSSACKS.
GERMANY'S PLANNED
OPERATIONS,
"AMSTERDAM, March 2nd, The Koelnische Folks Zeitung reliably declares that upon the expiry of the ultimatum to Roumanin the planned operations against Roumanis will pro-
ced.
NEGOTIATIONS VERY DIFFICULT
The Bolshevisks are arming Austro- German prisoners to oppose the Corrack forces which are forming in Manchuria.
ONLY JOINT ACTION CONTEM
PLATED.
LONDON, March 1st
The Daily News, in an editorial, states There is military, ground for AMSTERDAM, March 2nd. preventing the material of the Siberian The Rheinsche Westfaelische statce Railway falling into the hands of the that negotiations with Roumania are enemy, but any measures in that direc very difficult owing to resistance of the tion must be taken with the intention territorial demands, although the crono of conserving the interests of Russia,
mic concessions are not opposed,
NEGOTIATIONS SUSPENDED.
AMSTERDAM, March 2nd.
The statement from Washington that Japan has enquired from America and the Batente with a view to the institution of joist military operations in Siberia
A message from Berlin states that the shows that Japan takes the correct view. Central Powers have suspended negotia. The American feeling, like our own, is tions with Roumania.
understood to be opposed to a Japanese landing, but this view has been somewhat modified by an intimation that joint action only, is eontemplated.
There are indications that the inter ruption is due to Roumania's objection to the heavy enemy demands.
The Austro-Hungarians, in response to the Ukrainian appeal, entered Ukraine GENERAL SMUTS MISSION. in sectors to the north of the Pruth,
EXPLOSION AT PSKOFF.
AMSTERDAM, March 1st..
The Koelnische Folks Zeitung states that during the capture of Pskoff a Ger nan battalion suffered heavy casualties owing to an explosion caused by the Russians.
Zumica, March 1st.
LONDON, March 2nd Beuter's Agency is informed that Gene- a Smuts has been on a 14 days' mission
The Daily Chronicle states that General Smate has arrived in London from an important mission abroad,
GERMAN GROWN COUNCIL.
LONDON, March 2nd. · The Kaiser has convoked a Crown German reigning families at Main Headquartors.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER INTERVIEWS DR PAGE.
LONDON, March 2nd. Mr. Eloyd George had a fong inter view with the American Ambassador yesterday.
THE JAPANESE OBJECTIVE.
LONDON March 2nd. The Daily Chronicit diplomatic corre spondent suggests Irkutsk as the Japan ese objective
The paper says that local action Russian Manchuria. is inadequate in the situation.
ADVICE TO AMERICA,
A Vienna message alleges that an appeal from the Governor has been received for the Austro-Hunga anstroppe invading Fodalin again the Council of all the Guards JUSTIFYING AUSTRIAN ADVANCE.
AMSTERDAM, March 1st. A telegram from Vienna, apparently official, seeks to justify the Austrian ad vance into Ukraine on the pleg, that the Rada requested assistance against the Bolsheviks, who threaten the main line The Germans, apparently, are anxious out relaxing her efforts in the west, to Odessa, thus impeding the lood sup- to destroy Venice. Thirty houses wore should devote her attention to the Orient. ply, as the Danube route from the Black mea is still barred. YA
reached the American lines, but were ENG repulsed after heavy hand to hand ight. ing, leaving 12 dead and three prisoners in our trenches, besides many bodies hanging on the wire lying in front of the trenches. The Americans lost a few killed, wounded and missing.
The Germans also raided the American training trenches in the Chemin des Damos sector, but were repulsed, leaving
four prisoners, who said this was the beginning of a series of raids on a large scale on the Western Front:
gertal Activities.
GERMANS DESIRE DESTRUC- TION OF VENICE.
LONDON, March 1st.
LONDON, March 3rd. Interviewed by the New York Life, General Foch urged that America, with
The Austrian prisoners in Russia are damaged in Tuesday's air raid, including many in Siberia America and Japan danolished and 60 other buildings America and Japan should meet Ger- returning across the East Galicia Iront
a military hospital, charitable institu must furnish military and economic being drafted to garrisons and corps tions, and the churches of Ban Giovanni resistance to German penetration both in
war time and after the and in this direction should be taken imme diately,
at the rate of 5,000 daily, and they are] *
after a brief quarantine.
and Crisostomo,
AUSTRIAN REPORT,
It was not the enemy's fault that the LONDON, March 2nd. palace of the Dogs, the Bridge of Sighs A wirelcas Austrian official report states:We entered Podolia, and reach and St. Mark's escaped, for bombe were ed the line Nowesiɛlica-Chotin-Kamenice, dropped all round these places, Podolski, EYES ~~Ten thousand Russians to for have laid down their arma
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AMSTERDAM, March 2nd. ITALIANS BOMB POLA.
The Viennn Neue Freie Presse declares the Austrian intervention at Podolia na LONDON, March 1st.netary bot merely because Podolia, ir one of the most productive regions in An Italian communiqué states: A Traine, but that it will influence, the squadron of seaplanes flew over Pola on the Roumanian aspirations,
negotiations at Bukharest by reducing the night of February 27th and dropped two tons of explosives on the arsenal and The enemy was aggressively active, other military works, causing large fires. notably northwest and southeast of
The squadron ret
returned undamaged, Rheims. He attempted this afternoon to despite strong anti-aircraft gunfire.
Africa,
debonche ngainst a salient at Neufchatel, but our precise fire disorganised the attack, and our subsequent counter attack. drove out elements which had succeeded
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GERMANO-RUSSO PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS.
THREE DAYS ALLOWED FOR NEGOTIATIONS,
LONDON, March 1st. Awireless Russian official report states-The Peace Delegation at Brest- Litovsk reports that the Central Powers, replying to the, request for a cessation of hostilities, declares they will cease only Three days are allowed for the negotia tions, commencing from to-day."
GERMANY S PURPOSE IN DELAY.
PETROGRAD, March 2nd.
It is estimated that one-third of the houses were ruined by the raids.
SENSATIONAL DIPLOMATIC
REVELATION.
GERMANY'S OFFER TO FRANCE
BEFORE THE WAR,
PARIS, March 2nd,
war,
steps
NOTABLE CONFERENCES AT WASHINGTON,
WASHINGTON, March 2nd. Japan's proposed action in Siberia dominates official circles, and President Wilson is concentrating his attention on the question of American participation with the view to saving the Vladivostok supplies and preventing the advancing Germans from occupying the Transe Siberian Railway.
Earl Reading conferred with Mr.
The anniversary of the protest of the Lansing on the subject, and Mr. Lansing Alsace-Lorraine Assembly against the afterwards conferred with President German annexation was celcbrated Wilson. throughout France
It is officially announced that the United M. Tichon, speaking in the Sorbonne, States -Embatry and Consulate leit
27th in the presence of President Poincaré Petrograd for Vologda on February
and M. Clemenceau, and a crowd of dis.
In addition to six mids reported this orning the enemy made two other in gaining a footing in the advanced BRITISH SUCCESS IN EAST when the peace treaty is signed tinguished people, revealed secret Ger- attempts eastward of the Polygen Wood. Posta Bimultaneously, he attacked La
We drove off hoth, securing prisoners.
Pompelle, but our fire drove him back.
AFRICA
LONDON, March 1st..
Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg, dated July 31st, man documents namely, a letter from
1914, to the Ambasador at Paris instruc- ting him to ask France to remain neutral In the event of war with Russia, and if
THE STRANDED RAIDER.
FAR EASTERN PASSENGERS.
In the enemy's raid on the Portuguese Ho violently reattacked making repeated
COPENHAGEN, March 3rd. front, which was delivered in consider efforts to reach the fort of La Pompelle. Our columns from Lake Nyassa dispersed the Germans propose to profit by the foul and Verdun, which would be restor lawyer, Mr. Dickenson, and Mrs. Dicken
An East Africa official report states Proclamation states that evidently Frence consented then she must as a
guarantee hand over the fortresses at The Igotzmendi e passengers include a able strength on a 3,000 yard front, he Isolated elements succeeded in gaining the enemy rearguard Bouth eastward of to penetrate deeply into Russia ed on the conclusion of the war with
enemy.
الي أريد
delayed cessation of operations in order
The proclamation also orders nothing is to be surrendered without Our column from Port Amelia occupied fighting to the end. Meza.
The enemy is everywhere employing only small detachments.
OMINOUS REQUEST.
that
Naval Activities.
succeeded in entering the foremost footing in the northern portion of a Mtarika trenches and secured several prisoners. small work west of the fort. The enemy The Portuguese, counter attacking im- at the same time abortively attacked enot mediately, completely drove out the and south of La Bertonnerie.
UNSUCCESSFUL ENEMY ATTACKS. We repulsed the enemy in other raids In Champagne the enemy attacked at certain cases, after sharp fighting, two points, but unsuccessfully. In the securing a number of prisoners and in direction of Mont Comilett an attack flicting considerable losses.
was carried out on a front of 800 metres, Our acroplanes dropped over 900 but the enemy found our trenches had bombs on various targets, and fired many been previously evacuated under instruc- machine gun rounds,
tion. The enemy was immediately driven
We brought down four enemy machines, out by our energetic counter attack, and One of ours is missing. EXTENT OF GERMAN ATTACKS.
LONDON, March 2nd. -
The question of Japanese action in * Siberia divided attention to-day with the
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MINES.
THE HAGUE, March Ind
Small enemy naval craft struck the
mines of Vrieland. During the German
efforts to save the crews a boat capsized in the suri, but five survivors were
the positions were entirely re-established:
Our fire broks down the other attack east of Telon. In the course of these
The Handelsblad reports that gun- actions we inflicted serious losses, and fring was beard on the coast of Vrieland wê captured some prisoners.
but there are no detail
LORDON, March 20d.
son of Singapore, Professor Frederick Russie,
Customs This is described as the most sensational Progers, of Bangkok, and diplomatic revelation of the war, show officer from Shanghai, Mr. Alexander ing the hollowness of Germany's plea
Cross. that she was compelled to take up amm in self-defence.
HOLLAND'S MISAPPROPRIA
TION.”
GERMAN AMBASSADOR FOILED. A wireless Russian message states:-- 1. Viviani, interviewed, has shown M. Lenin has received a message from the that he never gave the German Ambas Brest Litova Delegation requesting Badran opportunity to make. Dr.
LONDON, March 2nd. 1in with an escort,
Bethunenn-Hollveg's offer. When the
In correspondence between the Foreign German Ambassador mentioned that there was danger of war with Butain and Office and the Dutch Government regard- asked what would be France's attitude, ing the Dutch internment of a seaplane's M. Varinni replied that France world ba actuated by her own intereste: The Germachine gun and parts of warships saived man Ambassador then left
in the North Sea, Mr. Balfour compare the removal of a machine-gun from a misappropriation of seaplane toa
MLewin comments that this probably meas that the Germans have broken af negotiations. We must be ready for an immediate German advance on Petrograd on all fronts. The people Custise and strengthen the defence measures” concludes the memage, f
BUBBIAN FLEET TO BE MADE READY NA PETROGIAD March 2nd.
A meeting of the Committees of the ready for action and to fight the Finnish Enitic Flect decided to get the Fleet
White Guards
BITTER PRESS DENUNCIATION
The entire Press dwells bitterly on the goods and liable to criminal proceedings.” infamy of Dr. Belloriann-Hollweg's proposal
He reiterates the request for the return The Figaro discloses that it was only of the articles. the document, owing to the German cipher a few days ago that experts daciphered pe
having meanwhile been changed.
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