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THE WAR.
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mágnes of soft olay, in which our men sank | to the hips. It was often impossible to defect the existence. of underground works until the occupants opened fire. Once the white flag was displayed, but a burst of fire met the warily approaching men. -The lost-heard of this spot was that it was surrounded by our bombers quietly awaiting events.
GALLANTIRISH.
The Irish fighting towards Polygon Wood encountered some of the toughest fighting and, after holding on long LANDON, August 16th.
enough to establish the posts, were com Reuter's Correspondent at Headquar-pelled to fall back. Later they re-attack- ters states that continuons and chieflyed and improved the position." Owing bitter fighting progressed throughout the to the very difficult character of the day, along the front of the renewed ground and its adaptability to stubborn uffensive. The joint British and French resistance this part of the attack was not attack appears to have been successful, earried na far forward as that to the but the situation on the right flank is a northward. little obscure. The troops around this The Correspondent relates that a couple spot were moving towards Folygon-de- of nights ago a hundred German infna- Zonncheke, but the Germans are deliver trymen were organised for a surprise at ing some very heavy counter attacks tack, but half of them refused to go over there. Further north, we have unques the top. The attacking party surrondor tionably, done - very well. Langemarcked after a dozen had been killed by is reported to be well in our hands, and emching fire. On the other hand, this the fighting is now well beyond that recalls n fine exhibition of desperate bravery by the Fourth Prussinn Guards, place
who were counter-attacking the Cana dians at Lens, when they continued to arch forward in fours until it could be seen that there was scarcely an unscathed man in the ranks.
The inention of Langemarck recalls the first battle at Ypres, when the Third Brigue met the Twenty-seventh German Division advancing with their arms linked, in conscientiousness of their over whelming superiority. Our machine-gun fr so cut them up that even our soldiers were naisented by the slaughter.
Both sides have been fighting desperate ly in the neighbourhood of Glinicors Wood, which is a strong tactical point. The infantry Joudly praise the almost sentient precision of the artillery bar rage. Chia of the worst experiences he falling the German counter-attacks was when the guns put down a enstain-fire hohind assaulting waves and then headed ihem off with a creeping, whirlwind barrage Machine guns represented the chief difficulty with which we had to won
tend
The Boche artilery appears to have afforded rather erratic support. · Zonne- beke Redont was the scene of fieres Gghting day. Picked durmtruppent chiafly delivered the counter-attacks. The "Fench continued to progres well, but
firit movement was mainly designed ern form/te may advance.
CONSOLIDATING..
to
HEAVY AND DESPERATE FIGHTING.
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FRENCH INFORMATION
We have now reached the principal which we brought down two and forced stage of the summer campaign in the West two to land in their own lines. Ous and the enemy is being subjected to a machines also few very low and succe pressure exceeding anything ever known fully bombed and machine gunned enemy Our advances are methodical and care troop trains and aerodromes fully's defined beforehand. There is so expectation of attaining overwhelming re- suite suddenly. The fruits of the present LONDON, August 18th.
A French communiqué states:---In Bel- battle have still to be gathered.
The fall of Lens might bring extensive gium the Germans have not made any changes on that part of the bas Creat fresh attempt. Our troops are organis issues hang in the balance at Lens and ing the captured ground which north c before Ypres, and if the British and of Bixschoote, from Driegrachen to th the French can register such definite ad river Broenvook, has been reduced i vances when the Germans are only fight islota, where the enemy is resisting ing on one front, it may be claimed that have now made prisoners of 400 and hars the character of the war is undergoing captured fifteen guns and numerou a perceptible and very hopeful change.
FIERCE FIGHTING.
LONDON, August 17th. Router's Correspondent at Headquar tors writing in the evening says:There has been ferce fighting north-west of the Lens salient, beginning at four in the morning and continuing for six hours, the Canadians bombing a regular best of trenches covering a front of 700 yards forming part of Lens proper. They suc creded after a regular in and out struggle in establishing themselves in the whole position,
OUR POSITIONS RESTORED
machine guns. The cannonade is rather lively at different points on the Ains front, particularly in the district of the Plateaux before Craonné. Two hundred and fifty shells were thrown on Rheima, two aivilians being killed. On the right
Caurieres Wood: of the Meuse the artillery duel continuas violently ⠀⠀⠀ in Bezenvaux sector. Spesial guns brought down two enemy Beroplanes.
ST. QUENTIN CATHEDRAL IN
FLAMES.
LONDON, August 17th. Beater's Correspondent at French Headquarters states that smoke and A LONDON, August 17th. flames were seen to be pouring from the Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reroof of St. Quentin Cathedral, yesterday ports: The enemy twice counter-attack evening, from the French observatory ed. last night, our new positions to the posts. All night, the great building, was east of Loos and in the direction of Citen flames, and when day broke It was seen St. Auguste. His second attempt pressed thus the massive, roof had fallen in, cereg us back on the line slightly, at some ing with it the central tower. At four points, but our counter-attack restored this afternoon, the correspondent was the positions.
looking at the ruined shell of the ancient church. The fire was still burning and smoke wns pouring out The Cathedral dates, in purts, from the thirteenth cen tury and the edifice contained some re- markably fine stained glass windowa, i
The enemy set fire to two villages, clone to St. Quentin," last night.
We repulsed a further counter-attack, taking prisoners.
The artillery on both sides is active to the gist of Ypres.
BIG CAPTURES,
LUNDON, August 17th. LONDON, August 17th- Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig re The fighting in Flanders has been most ports-The French slightly improved hrasy and most desperate. Correspon their position in the neighbourhood of dents say that the blood bath is worse Steenbeck. The enemy did not attempt than at the Battle of the Somme. The further counter-attacks. The British and Germans are frantically throwing in French have now captured twenty-four Cole Divisions, in vain attepts to guns, including a number of heavy take the lost positions, and their attacks calibre. We scured our positions on the are likened to outgoing tide waves. The Lang Inttle front which we captured yes The prisoners in this area again attacks are still heavy, but each collapses terday, We progressed westward of behind its predecessor. One came Within Lens.. ran yards of our line before it was wither, now number 1,120. We successfully raid ed eastward of Vermelles, reaching the ed by machine-gun fire.
enemy's support line.
The enemy losses in the counter-attacks at Hill 70 were partieniarly hotvy, and boys of 17 were mown down wholesale, **
The Allies are very unlucky in the mat er of weather. The advance at Lange marek was carried out through Hoods, and the men sank up to their waists in the mud, using their rifles as supports, and many had to be hauled out by their con
ades. But all the difficulties were ultimately surmounted and the enemy led when the British closed around the ruins. The raptured include a Calone! who, Jerve-shaken and dejected, "admitted that his losses had been very henvy.
Our aeroplanes. proved superior, thugh the ether rendered it difficult for damaged machines returning to the lines. Our acroplanes operated success
fully all day, firing their machine guns
Aerial Activities.
(THROUGH REDTEE'S AGENCY.]
RAIDS BY NAVA I AEROPLANES.
LONDON, August 17th. The Admiralty reports that naval acroplanes carried out a series of raida yesterday, and dropped any tons of bombe on Ostend, the railway stations
Chistelle, causing fires. at Thourout and the aerodrome at
ping six and a half tons of bombs on aero- aerodromes from a few scare feet, drop dromes, railway stations, and billets,
They also attacked the aerodromes at Others harrassed and machine gunned
We Engel and Uytkerke and road transports German infantry and gunners. brought down fifteen and drove down
by aeroplane gun fire. Eleven of our. eleven enemy machines. machines are missing.
GERMAN LIES REFUTED.
LONDON, August 18th.
Yesterday's lighting marks the fifth suc cessful offensive since January 1st, 1917.
An extraordinary series of misfopre Ech has meant the loss of a dominating sanitations and falsehoods regarding the height by the Germans, who now only fighting in Flanders during the last few hold Aubers Ridge, to the west of Lille days are contained in the German after but this has not yet been attacked,
noon tummque, and have been prompt- ly refuted by the War Offies. The enemy THE LIBERATION OF BELGIUM.
official message cunningly admitted a few LONDON, August 17th. minor Ket-backs, thereby creating an af leuter's Correspondent at British sphere of verity for the assertion that Our victories Headquarters, telegraphing this after. Langemarck was temporarily lost but was
wagnificently recoveral. noon, says that the liberation of Belgium made substantial progress yesterday. elsewhere are also calumnied, and the Although the gain in territory is not unique declared that, despite heavy the English accomplished great, it is all to the good. But what sacrifice, is much more important is that there are nothing and the Germans gained a full fewer Germans in Belginn thun previ victory.
All the machines returned,
Russian
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(THROUGH RUUTER'S AGENOT.},
GENERAL KORNILOFF ON THE ARMY.
SIDERABLY STRENGTHENED. MORAL FIGHTING CAPACITY CON
LONDON, August 17th Reuter's Correspondent at Headquar ters states -To-day's chief business has lain in consolidating the gains and clear ing out the various enemy infested nooks and corners, and in advancing guns and supplies. Our artillery is reciprocally active. Our airmen are taking advantageously. of the high visibility. Bigns are ap
The British and French have now prob, parent that the Germans are, relieving ably 200 prisoners in live or gorically, says that the excny has not conference with M. Koreniky, the Pres
cages, whilst we know for certain that the the badly knocked about units on various enemy's dead and wounded must form an parts of the front. The French have bien appalling total p
The counterattacks in dense mass
PETEOGRAD, August 17th. General Korniloff, the Commander in Chief, has arrived and has had a lengthy
lu an interview, Goneral Kornítoll“
The War Office statement demolished the enemy's claims to successes and eat recovered Langenarek. It quotes the re-mier: port of a British Staff ofheer, who return. ed from Langemarck at six o'clock to night, where he had been for five hours stated that energetic measures find result. The British not only hold Langemarck mainly employed in digging in. If pos which are still the favourite tactics of the but a considerable length of the Gorman Ied in a considerable strengthening of the sible their ground is worse than ours. German High Command, are terribly defensive positions for 500 yards to the moral fighting capacity of the army, and
It that British since the advance skirts inundated coun: costly, even when successful. The price try and has been largely over waterlog our gunnets exacted before the enemy was armed all their objectives north of Lens he hoped that the new measures he was allowed to re-take some of the high on August 15th and from St. Julien now submitting to the Government would ged ground. They have done magnifground yesterday was such that prisoners arthwards on August 16th. It is also result in a complete regeneration of the cently. The casualties were actually less admit that very tout of this kind of pointed out that the German statement
fighting must weaken the power of resist that four Canadian divisions participat army. than the total number of prisoners. The ance of the whole German army in the ed in the attack on August 10th is an famous seventy five, of which there is a West,
exaggeration. It seems pretty obvious that the amazing mis-statements in the tary operations were to be expreted on concentration, have given the Ger great
German communiqué are intended to in the Roumanian and other fronts, capecial was a terribly bad time, their creeping
press, or rather to depress, the Alliedly the northern front, where combined Istrages being marvels of accuracy and
nariuas with the object of inf land and sen action was possible. intensity, while their drumfire bruke up
that to agitate in favour of consideration. of the Pope's peace suggestions. several attempted counter-attacks.
CURIOUS SITUATION:
I refer to this solewhat obvious point because it affords an answer to the Ger- mans stereotyped boast that we have failed to break through their iron wall. It really does not matter whether we succeed in destroying the military power of Ger wany where we now stand, or miles fur ther forward.
Langemarck is a pile of rubble and con sists mainly of pool of water and beds of mud with islands of jagged masonry and tree stumps, and the ronds have vanished. The enemy here used an amaz ing quantity of concrete, the roofs to cel- lars being often ten feet thick, go
FRENCH FRONT.
VIOLENT ENEMY ATTACKS SANGUINARILY DEFEATED.
PARIS, August 17th.
A carious situation existed this morn ing at Les Lilas. A strong redoubt held up yesterday's advance thereabouts, but the French infantry swept past both sides and have the place pinched ont. A little local battle is proceeding there. The
A feature of the recent fighting is the
A coincunique statcs: In Belgium, the French counter-battery work was extra much greater part the ride is playing in ordinarily effective. The airmen led the the attacks. The Germans have been enemy attack on our new position, on lavish with their use of smoke barrages both sides of Steenbeck, completely fail- nfantry's advance, flying their lowest with the idea that they are baffling oure. The unemy, yesterday evening, after and frightening of Boche planes which gunners. These sometimes resulted in our were attempting to approach. Steenbeck men losing touch and also in reports of an intense bombardment, vigorously at casualties that had not occurred. In one ticked on a wo kilometre front between was flooded, but the Fach engineers case a private leading a little bunch of Fauclere ill and California Plateau, in- men met an officer of another battalion clusive. He was repulsed by artillery and asked him to take over command. and rife fre and did not succeed in The officer replied he had other work to reaching our lines anywhere. do and bade the private to carry on. It Violent and repeated attacks on the is the ready initiative of our mea that positions we have recently won, to the stands them in good stead amid the tar east of Cerny, were also sanguinarily mail of the battle. Experience shows defeated. that the German method of training
tultifies this quality, AUME
The weather continues to be lite and, judging from the thunder of the gaus ad activity of the airmen, the battle con- tinues to rage, made b
Around Lens, the Canadians are fellow mg up Wednesday's fine success end are still closer to the smoking town PRINCIPAL STAGE OF THE SUM
CAMPAIGN REACHED. MER
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HONEYCOMBED WORKS Almost every uere the British had to cross was honeycombed with defensive works, and, although a terrific gunfire smashed and flattened out most, yet they were still largely tenable to snipers and All the farms in the machine gunners. district were turned to the greatest pos sible advantage, every ledge being thickly wired and every cellar converted into a A special lending article in the Times regular fort. In the outer defences on the latest pushes says that the opera- fions are steadily developing. Evidently Langemarck consisted of a sort of cou-
the offensive initiated at the end of July creted most blocked at many places with was part of larger plans,
General Korniloff stated that vast mili
He was of opinion that another winter campaign was inevitable.
GERMAN ATTACKS FALL
LONDON August 17
A Rusalan official message, transmitted by wireless, states that German attacks in the region of Slanic and Stoklerie failed:
SPLENDID GALLANTRY IN ROUMANIA,
GERMAN PLANS UPSET:
LONDON, August 15th. The Special Correspondent of The Times at the Roumanian ceadquarters telegraphs that the greatest and bloodiest battle in which the Roumanians have over fought is still unconcluded. The battle is raging on a front of a hundred iniles from Slanic Valley to Gelatz and 15 04 -It is confirmed that the Gorrasu losses the whole toring a favourable turn-The in the operations from August 13th to Allice situation has been practically re- th, in the region of the plateaux at established in the Diter Pans where thu Creoone, were particularly heury.
Roumanians have succeeded in pushing After a short bombardment, the back the enemy and in inflicting terrific Germans, yesterday violently attacked losses. On the Mars xsti front, north of between Caurierce Wood and Bezouvaux, Focsani, the battle continutes (vigle tha
right bank of the Mouse Our For six days and nights the Rusino on the te counter attacks and the at troops have fought with eplawdid wallan curacy of our fire repulsed, almost everytry. The enemy has brought up at his where the enemy, who had gained a available artillery and he made huge footing in advanced elements of our but vain efforts to brez through,The fact that the Russians and Roubiaiiians first line.
have been able to resist the frantic efforts. Our apropishes netively participated in of the enemy since August 5th is compell- the operations in Belgium and there were ing him to bring up reinforcements and many fights with cremy seroplanes of has upset the plans of the Germans,