BAPAUME RIDGE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3028, 15 March 1917, Page 5

BAPAUME RIDGE

FORWARD CREST SEIZED ADVANCE ON WIDE FRONT HOW BAGDAD FELL STORY OF BRITISH SUCCESS Tlio terrible effect of tho British 'bombardment ud tho enemy's defences on the Bapaume Ridge .h as forced ibo Germans from i.he forward crest on a considerable ft retch of front, and important positions have been seized with surprisingly slight resistance. In addition, tho British have carried.out several effective trench raids, while tho Germans have managed! to ma ko «. slight move in a. raid on our trenches at Neuve Ohapelle. On tho French front at Maison-de-Ohampagno, tlio Germans have ma do violent, but futile, efforts to regain the ground lost in the recent French attack. The enemy continues to bombard tho open town, of Soissons, on the A'snc, with, what object is not yet clear. Thevo is reported to havo been a, conference of the Austrian and Gem un Staff leaders at tho German Headquarters on the- schemes for invading Italy and attacking the Allies in the West. Von • Falkenh ayn has arrived in Belgium. Tho official story of the British capturo of Bagdad describes tho sequence of brilliant and dashing events whioli culminated in the entry of the British troops .into the' city. Another report, as yet unconfirmed, states that 15,000 Turkish troops on tho Russian-Persian front hare been captured by the Russians.