Sherbrooke daily record, 20 février 1917, mardi 20 février 1917

[" Sherbroo Fcecord Established 1897.SHERBROOKE, QUE.TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917.Twentieth Yeer French Make Surprise Attack on The Enemy And Take Prisoners Active Artillery Engagements Between the\t^ \u2022ninu fyr.r And Aisne.Italian Battalions Occupy Koni- rfJLfcj iUilnl litjAi tza Near The \\lbanian Border.Teutonic EAR TO APPEAL Troops Beaten Off By Russian Fire.Russ| Submarine Sank One Enemy Steamer And Eight Schooners in The Black Sea FRENCH CAPTURE GERMAN PRISONERS.(Canadian Pres» Despatch.) Paris, Feb.20 (noon)\u2014Active artillery engagements occurred last night between the Oise and the Aisne and in the region north of Flirey.A surprise attack by the French resulted in the taking of prisoners.FRENCH OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Canadian Press Despatch.) Paris, Feb.20.\u2014The French official announcement reads: \u201cP.ather spirited artillery actions occurred between the Oise and the Aisne, in the Avocourt seetor.North of Fleury and west of Wattwedler we made a Burprise attack on the trenches of the enemy and took prisonèrs.Elsewhere the night passed quietly.1' ITALIANS OCCUPY KONITZA NEAR ALBANIAN BORDER (Canadian Press Despatch.) London, Feb.20.\u2014The occup.tion uy two Italian battalions of Konitza, in Western Greece, near the Albanian border, is reported in an exchange telegraph despatch from Athens, which says this announcement has been made officially.The Greek authorities at Konitza are reported to have withdrawn southward to Janina.RUSSIAN SUB.SINKS NINE ENEMY SHIPS (Canadian Press Despatch.) Petrograd, Feb.20 via London.\u2014 À minor infantry action on the Rus-b-isn front, in which the Teutonic troops were beaten off by the Russian tire, is reported in today\u2019s war office statement.Further successful operations by Russian submarines in the Black Sea also are announced.The ctaterment reads : \"Western front : The enemy, about a battalion strong, attacked m close formation our positions in the region of Slaventine, North West of Podgaste, l>oing met by our con-rentxated fire and forced to return to his entrenchments.\u201cRoumanian and Caucasus fronts : Scouting reconnaissance and reciprocal tiring is proceeding.\"In the Black Sea one of our submarines sank a steamer and eight schooners near the Bosphorous.\"In the region of Smorgon on Sunday and Monday our pilots had a number of successful aerial engagements with the enemy.Cne of our airplanes, piloted by Sub.-Lieut.Tamson had a desperate combat with two enemy machines and forced both to return to their position.\" BRITISH TAKE TURKISH FRONT LINE POSITIONS London, Feb.20.\u2014 On the Irak front in Asiatic Turkey the British and Turks have been engaged in hard fighting at Sannayyat, about 12 miles northeast of Kut-et-Amara.In their onslaught the British captured front line Turkish positions at two places respectively on frontages of 350 and 540 yards.The Turks in two heavy countr-attaeks forced the British right wing back upon its original line.The left wing voluntarily retired at nightfall to preserve the contour of the front.Aside from this engagement no fighting of importance is reported in any of the latest official communications.The operations on all fronts have again been carried out by small raiding parties, sappers and the artillery wings of the belligerent armies.SUCCESSFUL RAIDS.On the front in France the British carried out a successful raid east of Souchez.The artillery duels between the French and Germans on several sectors of the Verdun front have again become quite severe.On the line running from the Baltic Sea to Roumanie thee have been no developments anywhere.The usual artillery actions and minor skirmishes continue in the Austro-Italian theatre and on the Macedonian front.Two Army Corps Promised From New Polish Kingdom Not Yet Organised.(Canadian Prass Despatch.) Geneva, Switzerland, Feb.20\u2014 The appeal to the Poles, in the newly proclaimed kingdom to enlist in the Polish army and fight under Austro-German banners for the new state, has fallen on deaf ears, according to recent information brought from Warsaw by neutral and German visitors.The cadres of the new army have been formed, and a considerable number of officers and men from the old Austrian Polish legion, and from the Polish troops of the German army, has been brought to the occupied districts of Poland to instruct the Polish volunteers, but only a few hundred troops, most of them students in iVarsaw University, who volunteered in the first flush af enthusiasm following the proclamation of the kingdom, are said to have come forward.The two Polish army corps of which the German advocates of the establishment of the new Poland spoke as the probable contribution from the kingdom to the armies of the Central Powers, are declared t^> show no signs of ever coinin,.into existence.The Polish workmen, and peasants, it appears, from the accounts of developm nts in Poland that have reached here, show a decided dislncli\" at ion to take, op a- ns, and the labor shortage in Germany has been made good in no small degree, it is asserted, by an exodus to Germany of Poles who feared being impressed into the new army, and who decided to seek safe employment in the German munition factories or on farms rather than face the risk oi being urafted as soldiers.Nor are large elements of the Polish population display.ng any keen enthusiasm, returning travellers state, for the civil organization of the new kingdom.The fear if the consequences In case Russian rule should by any possibility be re-established exercises a lively deterrent influence upon many Pole;., said there is asserted to be a quite widespread determination to wait and sec the result of the war before they commit i.icmselves to the new order.******\t*?**?** *\t* *\tCALL ON BROKERS TO AS- * *\tSIST m NATIONAL * *\tSERVICE.\t* *\t- - *