Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

While the attention of the world is centered on the congress of the Russian soviets in Moscow today and on the probable effect of President Wilson’s message to the Muscovite people, heavy fighting is in progress at many points on the western front with American troops in the thick of it.

Gen. Pershing’s men have Successfully carried out their first raid on the Germans, unaccompanied by French troops, successfully penetrating the Teuton lines on a considerable front north of Toul, to a depth of 3,000 yards and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. The Germans devoted the most of their attention to the British sectors. Field Marshal Haig reports that following heavy bombardment in the neighborhood of Armentieres, the Germans launched three - raids against the British posts. In one locality the raiders were driven off, in the other two localities the enemy Wa« repulsed with loss after fighting as a result of which five British soldiers are missing. A machine gun was captured. The enemy attempted a raid on a large scale in the Ypres sector. Parties of hostile infantry attacked the British line northwest of Passchendaele on a front of 1,000 yards. They were everywhere repulsed with heavy losses.

The hostile artillery was active today south of St. Quentin, north of the Scarpe, and between Hill 70, north of Lens, and Festubert, southeast and east of Messines, and east and northeast of Ypres. Both in Mesopotamia and Palestine the British invading armies have registered important further progress. Northwest of Bagdad tie Turk* have retired 22 miles, leaving the town of Hit* to the British without a cannon shot in defense. In Palestine the troop* of Gen. Allenby have pushed forward on a front of 13 mile*,* taking Khel Belyondatt, Kefe Makel Telahur and Selwad. The advance is in the direction of Nablus, on the road from Jerusalem. On the Italian front the Teuton preparation* for a resumption of the Venetian drive go on day and night without, however, causing any uneasiness to the Italian high command, the defense positions being constant ly improved upon. Teuton flyer* have raided Naples, rival of Venice in beauty and pop *- larity among tourist* from all' parts of the world in time* of peace. More than a dozen persons were killed by bombs. A hospital was struck and damages was caused chiefly in the residential section.