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iOnrushing Huns
4 Unable orce
BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE,
i 'March 25, by the Associated Press. A further advance late
; yesterday by the Germans at some points along the battle
1 (front is recorded.
1 LONDON, March 25. Extremely heavy firing from
the direction of Flanders was heard all last night along the
Kentish coast, according to the "Central News. The heavy
concussions shook the houses. The firing appeared to be at
different points over a wide area, guns of all calibers appar
ently being in action. There were also violent explosions.
j ' LONDON, March 25. The British this morning were
SI. icounter-attacking between .Nesle and Ham. Reuter's corres
pondent at British headquarters reports the French also were
in action.
North of Bapaume, he states, the Germans were attack-
h ing in considerable force at dawn, but did not get through the
British barrage.
( France has thrown the weight of her forces into the great
1 battle raging with unexampled intensity on the western front
and the British and French armies are now battling together
against the onslaught of the common enemy in his desperate
attempt to break through the Allied line.
X The British armies are holding fast along the line of the
Somme and also in the region north of Bapaume, Field Mar-
! shal Haig reports today. The Germans in their thrusts in the j
latter section reached the British trenches at only one point j
and there they were immediately ejected. Their assaults
J elsewhere were smothered by the British fire with great losses
' to the enemy . ,
Bodies of Troops Driven Back.
; On the Somme line bodies of German troops which had
succeeded in forcing their way across the river between Licourt
( and Brie, south of Peronne, were driven back to the easterly
bank. On both sides of the Bapaume the German attacks
r were resumed today.
h The greatest danger point at present seems to be further
V south where the Germans apparently have driven through the j
greater width of the region they devastated in retiring in 1917,
as the Paris statement today reports heavy fighting in the re-1
' tgion of Noyon. This town itself is some ten miles to the west
! of Chauny in the region of which Berlin yesterday reported
y the repulse of Franco-American reserves but the German ad
y yance has been met considerably short of Noyon.
The wedge driven into the Allied line is evidently a deep
U 'one, however, as the French troops are reported by Paris to
ibe contesting for the heights to the north of the Oise with im
portant German forces. The Oise on this part of the front
.runs southhwest past Chauny and passes to the south of
Noyon.
BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE,
I IMarch 25. The Germans have been pushing forward by
sheer weight of numbers with the assistance of little artillery,
i In the region between Bapaume and Peronne the British
fell back again somewhat in the fighting late on Sunday. This
i marked the main success of the enemy whose progress is be-
I ing contested bitterly step by step.
jj Early this morning the Germans again hurled great num-
Ijj 'bers of onemy infantry against the British line near Ervillers
" 'but at the latest reports the onrushing troops had been unable
to force their way through the intense artillery barrage which
'the British put down.
A heavy battle also has been proceeding on' the British
pright flank where the enemy had succeeded in forcing his way
across the Somme canal south of Ham. The British were de
livering counter-attacks, pushing back the invaders across the
waterway.
! . LONDON, March 25. Fresh attacks
iby tho Germans have developed north-
jv jward and southward of Bapaume, the
111' I (war 0co announces,
lis Tno British repulsed powerful at-
'II rt.acks yesterday afternoon northward
ws of Bapaume.
'JRl Tho British drove back to the east-
Shjj (Orn back of tho Somme bodies of Ger-
mu (man troops which have crossed the
iff triver between Licourt and Brie, south
IuJ jot Peronne.
-5w! I Tho statoment follows:
rMj 1 "Tho battle continues with great
rviblence on tho whole front. Powcr-
jjl I ul attacks delivered by the enemy
yesterday afternoon and evening north
of Bapaunlc were heavily repulsed.
m& Only at one point did the German in
fantry reach our trenches, whence
they "were immediately thrown out.
?2i Elsewhere the enemy's attack: 7ere
4 ' stopped by rifle, machine gun and ar-
HdJ ' tillery fire in front of our positions and
I his troops were driven back with
Wi 1 great loss.
y "During the night and this morning
B ; tresh hostile attacks have again de-.
P: (veloped in this neighborhood-and aJsq.
m to tho south of .BojKlUmiL
B ! "South of Peronne "bodies of fjer-
E man troops who had crossed the river
P between Licourt and Brie were driven
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back to the east bank by our counter
attacks." Review of Four-Day Battle.
Persistent attacks with strong forces
of infantry and lavish uso of artillery
have not enabled the Germans to
break through the British defense
and, after four days the great offen
sive blow in northern Prance has not
yet brought a decision for the at
tackers. Heavy fighting is in prog
ress around Bapaume, near Peronne.
and where the British and French
fronts join.
Field Marshal Halg's withdrawal,
previously planned, in case of a heavy
enomy nttack has been carried out in
a manner described as masterly and
great credit for this is given to tho
small units which, sometimes outnum
bered eight or nine to one, clung to
their positions and impeded tho Ger
man advance. The British have made
few counter-attacks, but every one at
tempted has been successful. British
efforts are- centered to withdrawing
aa occasion requires and permitting
the enemy to wear himself ouc beforo
tfjte British, apfcns'e.
Rflftting on OJ$ Field.
Sunday tho' fighting forces in the
north reached the old battlefield of
tho Sommo, from which tho Germans
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retreated a year ago. Again Bapaume
and Peronne are the centers of the
most bitter fighting. Bapaume Is the
key position between Arras and Albert
and Berlin reports that " a gigantic
struggle" is being made for Its posses
sion. The capture of Peronne is claimed
by the Germans, but heavy fighting is
taking place norf.h of it and southward
along the Somme river. Between
Bapaumo and Peronne the Germans
have reached the Transloy-Mocbles-Maurepas
line, where they are held by
the British.
Blood Struggle Continues.
On tho southern end of the great
battle line where the sanguinary
struggle has not halted for many
hours, the Germans have reached
Chauny, an important point on the
Oise river southwest of La Fere.
Here, however, their advance has not
been so great as directly west of St
Quentin, where they progressed more
than ten miles. Tho British and
French battle lines meet near Chauny.
The French lines along the Chemln
des Dames and eastward toward
Rheims would be menaced. The Ger
mans advanced as far as Compiegne
on the road to Paris. But Compiegne
is a good twenty miles southwest of
Chauny.
Fifty. four Airplanes Brought Down.
The intensity of the strugglo is
shown by the official announcement
that British aviators on Saturday
brought down fifty-four enemy ma
chines. The British lost only nine. In
addition to carrying out their work in
the fighting zone, British airmen again
have dropped bombs successfully on
Mannheim, Germany.
Berlin claims that Franco-American
detachments aided the British in the
fighting Saturday, but the identity of
tho American units have not been
learned. It is possible that American
and French troops from the Chemin
des Dames sector have moved up to
Oise 'or north of it, but more probably
that Americans engineers with tho
British army were concerned. Berlin
also has announced the capture of
Ham, Peronne and Chauncy, and
claims that the number of prisoners
has increased to 30,000.
There has been little except artil
lery fire activity on the remainder of
the British front and on the French
j and American sectors. The German
artillery fire has been violent along
the Chemin des Dames in the Cham
pagne, northeast of Verdun and in
Alsace.
The Dutch cabinet is reported to
have decided to refuse the proffer of
many thousand tons of foodstuffs
made by the allied powers in return
for- tho use of Dutch shipping. The
food was placed at Holland's disposal
and was to be carried on Dutch ships,
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Troops Go to Assist
ance of the
British
PARIS, March 25. The French on
Saturday went to tho assistance of the
British and took over a sector of the
battle front, the war ollicc announces.
In tho region of Noyon and on the
right bank of the Oise heavy fighting
with tho Germans is in progress.
Tho statoment follows:
"French troops hegan to intervene
on March 23 in the battle now boing
fought on tho British front They re
lieved certain of the allied forces and
took up fighting themselves on this
oftnlnr est tlio f rnn f
"At tho present time they are en
gaged in heavy fighting in the region
of Noyon and they are disputing the
heights of the right bank of the Oise
with important German forces.
"Northwest of Rheims there has
been a violent artillery action in the
region of Courcy and Loivre. In the
Champagne two German sifrprlse at
tacks cast of Sulppes resulted in fail
ure. French patrols took some pris
oners near Tahuro.
"Thcro was much artillery activity
between Arracourt and the Vosges. At
daybreak German forces attacked the
I French lines east of Blenoroy and east
of Badonvlller. Tho Germans were re
pulsed with heavy losses."
PARIS, March 25. Another air raid
alarm was sounded shortly after 1
o'clock this morning. After three
quarters of an hour firemen's bugles
and church bells announced that nil
was clear and tho Parisians wore ablo
to return' to their beds.
COTTON MARKET.
NEW YORK, March 25. Cotton
broko 25 to 51 points in the market
here today, attributed to the military
situation, the maximum decline repre
senting ?2.50 a bale. Rallies restored
moro than half the losses.
t oo
PRIVATE ANDERSON DIES.
ROCKFOED, 1 March 25. Pri
vato Androw Anderson of Seattle,
casual company, Thirty-second engi
neers, died at tho camp yesterday of
pneumonia.
Germans Place Division
for Every Two Thous
and Yards.
GALLANT DEFENSE
Hottest and Most Dis
puted Point at
lory.
BRITISH ARMY HEADQUARTERS
IN FRANCE, Sunday, March 21. (By
the Associated Press.) The main
thrust on the British right flank by the
Germans Thursday morning was south
i of St. Quentin and tho enemy used a
division for every 2000 yards of tho
; front, there being approximately ono
German division against over' Brit
ish battalion. The purpose of the at
tack here was to capture Urvillers and
Essigny-le-Grand and thereby acquire
! high ground for a further advance. It
; is now possible to give moredetaUs
1 of the earlier stages of this and other
fights.
On the extreme right of tho British
army the enemy crossed the . river
Oise at two places. One body of
troops came out of La Fere and swung
north whilo another army crossed at
Morey and turned south to form a
junction with tho La Fere group.
Throughout the day the battle raged in
the lowlands about tho Oise.
At Vendeuil a group of British held
out until -i o'clock in the afternoon. A
little further north the Germans
stormed Urvillers and Esslgny. Just
west of St. Quentin the British were
forced to fall back but throughout the
day thoy clung to the Holnon wood, a
little northwest of the city.
British Make Gallant Defense.
South of St. Quentin a number of
strong British redoubts made a gallant
defense and it was nightfall beforo
the last of them, with their machine
gunners, had been reduced.
The end of tho first day found the
BriUsh behind tho St Quentin canal.
Friday morning tho enemy renewed
his assault with increasing vigor and,
after desperate fighting in the region
of La Fere, succeeded in getting
across to tho British side.
Drive at Ham.
Further tho British also withdrew
from the Holnon wood. The Germans
then drove at Ham, which had been
cleared of civilians, and Saturday
morning, after obtaining a crossing of
the canal, drove southward into tho
British positions.
In the other main theater of opera
tions between Arras and Bapaume
the Germans made their first drive
against the high ground between the
Cojel and Senseo rivers. The Ger
man preliminary bombardment was
terrific and their infantry outnum
bered the British eight to one in some
cases.
Occupation of Mory.
Early the Germans attacking south
ward into Bullecourt and the British
withdrew to a line covering Vaulx
Vrancourt, Morchics and Baumetz
Les Canibrai. The hottest and most
disputed point was Mory, which the
Germans occupied only yesterday.
During Friday the Germans over
ran St. Leger, Vaulx-Vrancourt and
Henin. One company of machine gun
ners on Hennin hill held up tho Ger
man advance for a long time, doing
deadly execution in tho densely
formed ranks.
The Germans have been bringing up
artillery in tho most ablo manner bo
hind their shock troops and have
been making full use of this arm as
the advanco continued.
German cavalry tn small numbers
has been in action but thus far it has
been used merely to harass tho Brit
ish during their withdrawal.
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AIR FIGHTING
' OFil ITALY
ROME, March 25. Thorp has been
remarkable aerial activity over the
lines on the Italian front, the war
office announced today. Eighteen en
emy machines were brought down.
There has been a lively artillery bat
tle at various places botweeu Lake
Garda and the Brenta. ,
Capture Over 45,000
Prisoners and 600
Guns. v
British defeated
i
Violent Fighting for Pos
session of Combles
and Ales Lose.
BERLIN. March 25. The Germans
are now standing to the north of the
Somme in the middle of the former
Somme battlefield, says today's offi
cial statement. Bapaume -was captured
in night fighting.
In the evening Nesle was taken by
storm, the statement adds. British,
Americans and French -woro thrown
back through a pathless "wooded coun
try. More than 45,000 prisoners and more
than 800 guns have been captured, tho
statement says.
Guiscard and Chauny were captured
in tho evening.
Violent fighting developed for pos
session of Combles and the heights
west of the town. The enemy was de
feated, the statement says.
Fighting at Bapaume.
Bapaume is on the northern part of
the battlo front where the British line
for the most part has been hold. It is
one of the larger towns on tho fight
ing front from which a number of
roads radiate. Tho official statement
of Saturday night was said a gigantic
struggle was taking place for the town.
It is 105 miles below Arras.
Nesle, Guiscard, Chauny, Villequior
Aumont and La Neuvlllo are all in the
neighborhood of St. Quentin, where the
Germans have been making tho great
est headway in the last 24 hours. It
was thero that tho French troops were
thrown in taking over a section of the
battle front from tho British.
This is the second report by Berlin
of the prosenco of American troops on
that part of the front. Sunday's Ger
man statement said that French, Eng
lish and American forces had been
brought up from tho southwest for a
counter-attack and -were thrown back
on Chauny.
Combles is six miles northwest of
Peronne.
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AMERICANS NOT
i
Nothing in Reports to Show
U. S. Troops in Great
Battle.
WASHINGTON, March 25. German
statements that American troops had
taken part in the fighting in France
I has not been confirmed today and of
ficials, including Major-General March,
chief of staff, declined to comment on
the reports.
Officers indicated that thero was
nothing hero to show that American
troops other than engineers or special
units, had been attached to tho British
forces.
Official Washington Including Pres
ident Wilson, today anxiously scanned
British and German statements. Whe
ther the war department has received
confidential advices from General
Pershing was not disclosed.
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, March 25. American engi
neers have again been in the throes of
fierce conflict in which thoy have done
excellent work In transportation.
Tho presence of tho American engi
neers on tho battle front has long been
known. Thoy were praised highly for
their gallantry in tho battlo of Cam
brai last fall.
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RED CROSS IN SANTO DOMINGO.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Fob. 23.
Americans In Santo Domingo are ac
tive in tho interest of Uio American
Rod Cross. According to information
received here tho foreign colony at
La Romana sent recently $2000 to tho
American Red Cross headquarters, at
Washington, through tho United
States minister to Santo Domingo, W.
W. RusselL
Rabies Causes Peat h' ol - j I
Geo, Chandler in Ogden I
Terrible Agony During
Which Patient Is Placed
in Steel Cage;
George C- Chandler, rear 274 G Wash
ington avenue, died at the Dee hos
pital this morning at 930 o'clock of
hydroprobia. Mr. Chandler was bitten
by a stray dog just two months ago,
near Twenty-seventh street and Jef
ferson avenue. This is the first
recorded death in Utah from rabies.
Mr. Chandler died in the most inde
scribable agony, his transformation
from human to beast being complete.
Before he died it was found necessary
to confine him to his bed with a steel
hood used at the hospital for insane.
As tho virulence of the poison de
veloped, he fell to gnashing his teeth,
frothing at tho mouth, snapping, claw
ing and raving as does a rabid dog
when it dies. His death came after
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Mighty Gnn Sends Shell!
Over a 120-mile I
i
Cnrve.
PARIS. March 25. Twenty -four
shells reached Paris on Saturday and
twenty-seven yesterday. The interval
between shots was reduced from 15
or 20 minutes on Saturday to an aver
age of 9 minutes yesterday.
On two occasions there was an in
terval of only one or two minutes.
Shells fell at 9:15 and 9:16 o'clock and
at 9:45 and 9: 17. This was accepted as
confirming the theory that at least
)two guns wero firing.
Tho time of flight of tho shells Is es
timated at 10 minutes at tho least;
tho curve traversed at 120 miles and
the maximum height attained at 15
miles.
nry
RUSSIANS AND
mm unite
Organizing Army Corps in Si
, beria Cossacks Joining Ten
j Thousand Germans.
HUNS GUARDING RIFLES
Plan to Mobilize Along Fron
tier and Oppose Advance of
Foreign Troops.
HARBIN. Monday, March 18 (By
tho Associated Press.) Russian and
German soldiers in Siberia aro organ
izing an army corps composed of ono
exclusively Russian division and an
other which will bo two-thirds Ger
man and one-third Austrian, according
to reports reaching official quarters at
Irkutsk. Four thousand Cossacks are
said to have joined 10,000 Germans,
tho combined xorce Deing opecieu iu
go to Irkutsk.
L. S. Gray, an American business
man at Omsk, reports that 1000 pris
oners with, machine guns, airplanes,
motorcycles, armored cars and , am
munition have been concentrated at
Tomsk. At Krasnoyarsk a passport
bureau has boon established and is
supplying tho Austrian soldiers cre
dentials under Russian names. Ger
mans are guarding 10,000 rifles in the
arsenal at Irkutsk. All theso move
ments, according to information reach
ing here, are parts of a plan to mob
ilize along the frontier and oppose any
advance by foreign troops.
President Wilson's message to the
All -Russian congress at Moscow has
been received with enthusiasm in
Siberia. Thero Is much speculation as
to whether his remark about tho in
ability of America to give help referred
to Siberia. Tho press as a whole in
terprets the message as a guarantee of
Russia's integrity .against ' all out
siders. 1
several hours of tho most violent I
struggling during which his mind com- J
pletely deserted him. fl
The disease developed in charac-'
teristic fashion, according to Dr. H
George Dickson, who attended him. H
Tho first symptoms -were a violent
antipathy to water. When Dr. Dick- t J
son was called to tho Chandler homo J
Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock, he J
found Mr. Chandler just entering the , IJH
first stages, He readily recognized that
he was suffering of hydroprobia and H
ordered him taken immediately to the .
hospital. Mr. Chandler at that time
showed the characteristic symptom of
rabies. He nearly went Into spasms at
the mere sight of water.
He was taken to the Deo hospital at ffH
12 o'clock Sunday. His condition rapid
ly became worse until in a rew hours
he was violent. No assistance what
ever could be given to thwart the
poison or relieve his condition and he
sank from one violent change to an
other until his death occurred at 9:30 H
this morning.
(Continued on Pago 11.)
Airplanes Will Locate H
Monster That Is Shell- iH
ing Paris. H
PARIS, March 25. It is to be hoped j
that tho gun which shelled Paris will I NfH
very shortly be silenced, says tho i'l
Figaro which gives the following
quotation from a man who was said fH
to be in a position to know:
"The 380 millmeter gun which bom-
barded Dunkirk two years ago from a pJH
distance of twenty-five miles was lo- j pfH
catcd by our airplanes and soon put 'iH
out of action. The samo methods -will 'kH
be adopted with' regard to the 240
millimeter gun which has been bom- jpH
barding Paris for the last two days. jH
Since Saturday our airplanes have- ;pH
been looking for it and the fact that 'flpH
it stopped firing is due, perhaps, to . lH
their arrival. It will not be long be- !H
fore the gun is definitely placed; tnen
its career will soon be over." ll
The people, according to tho morn- vH
Ing newspapers, are convinced that
the Germans are using two new guns, Pl
while Richard Arapeu, the military ex-
pert of L'Oeuvre, believes there is a fH
whole battery of them.
U-BOAT SINKS ' I
AMERICAN SUP I
Crew of 78 Landed Safely
Four Torpedos Strike
Steamer Chattahoochee.
LONDON, March 25. The admiral- (
ty announces that tho American steam- ,
er Chattahoochee, 500S tons net, has i
been sunk by a German submarine oft
the English coast. Her crew of 78 'H
was landed safely. The commander
states that the submarine fired a num
ber of torpedoes of which four struck
the vessel. IH
Offer of Grain in Return for "
Ships to Be Turned jH
Down. 'H
LONDON, March 25. Tho Dutch
cabinet is- said to have concluded Sun
day to send the allied powers a formal
refusal to their offer of grain In re- IH
turn for Dutch ships, a dispatch from lH
Tho Hague to tho Daily Mall says.
The original compact for the uso of
Dutch ships by Great Britain and tho jH
United States called for the placing at jH
tho disposal of Holland of 100,000 tons lH
of foodstuffs. Dutch ships were to car-
ry this food. jjH