STRONGER ENEMY RESISTANCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16497, 24 March 1917, Page 7

STRONGER ENEMY RESISTANCE

I 'fi-r ; COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED . PUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED 1 GERMAN RAIDER RETURNS TO PORT m !§§§ ' l DECLARED TO BE THE IOEWE , Heavy snowstorms are increasing the allies' difficulties in --j following up the enemy in France. The German resistance is iS,'.- also increasing along the whole front. Counterattacks have B|' _ been made against the French at several points, but none of them met with success, and the enemy were driven back. 1 .;■ German war correspondents all suggest that the object of the I|L retirement is to spoil the allies' plans for an offensive. |||? The Germans claim to have penetrated the Russian line iff on a front of two miles and a<half south-east of Vilna, and to I.; have destroyed defences. |t| A message from Berlin states thai the auxiliary cruiser | :■''■* Moewe has returned from her second cruise in the Atlantic. lon a commerce-destroyer which was recently reported in to have destroyed defences. A message from Berlin states that the auxiliary cruiser Moewe has returned from her second cruise in the Atlantic. The commerce=destroyer which was recently reported in the I J Atlantic was stated to be the Moewe, which made a previous I raid on allied commerce and returned to Germany, but was not I definitely identified as such. American newspapers give I publicity to a report that British cruisers sank two armed I! % , enemy vessels in the South Atlantic on February 21. I ; The general expectation in the United States is that the I; President will ask Congress to declare that a state of war with Germany exists, and that Congress will then authorise I ' the use of armed forces. Meantime, it is reported that I another American steamer has been torpedoed. Seven I survivors have reached Holland. I It is reported that 40,000 munition workers in Dusseldorf, p ' Germany, have struck as a protest against short rations.