Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

Germany artillery fire inerenrnd yesterday in th* Cambrai taction and along tho Arre* front, th* British war office announced. Th* TcWgM* - •l*o attempted further reconnoitering raid*. They were driven . •outhwect of La Ba****, Icavtag prisoner*. Another German raid *a*t of Epehy alao waa repulsed The fire waa partciularly het directly weat and aouthwaat of brai, wher* th* German infantry achieved some *uccee* in recent attack*. ■ , Pari* report* a general bombardmont of th* *ntir* Fr*nch front, and the repulao es two hoetile raid* one south of tho Oia* and tho other n*ar Carnillet,in Champagne. French raddera penetrated the Gorman trenches near Fort de la Pompella and returned with prisoner*. British troop* in Italy ip the prat twenty-four hour* cro**ed the Piav* River and captured a number of the enemy* The British war office doo* not mention th* sector in which th* mid was mad*, but declares lo**** ware light, although th* raider* inflicted considerable damage on th* Toutons* German flyers are bombing Italian war hospitals, and Rom* announce* eighteen patient* were killed in air raid* over hospital* at Castal France VOUOtOe 'S The entire west bank es tho Piavo i* reported dear of the enemy and a lull ha* *et in along the Italian front, except for small outpost action*.