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TITANTIC STRUGGLE IN FLANDERS.

WHOLE BATTALIONS OF THE ENEMY MASSACRED.

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LONDON, Aug. 18 Field Marshal, Sir Douglas Ha states there is nothing special to |report.

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THE AIR RAID, -

TWO ENEMY MACHINES

DESTROYED...

LONDON, Aug. 18. The Admiralty announces that hostile rempline of the Gotha typd was destroyed during its return to the Belgian coast, and a hostile sea- plape was destroyed off the coast of Flanders

Mr. Phillip Gibbs, after emphasising thegreatnes of the enemy's artillery, which, however, is not 30 great as ours, says that the whole countryside is ablaze with fire and smoke, especially round about Glencorse

A large number of naval machines Wood, Inverness Copae, Stirling Castle indecisively engaged the raiders over and Frezenberg, where perfect hell the sea.

fire rages. Successive. beavy enemy The pilot who destroyed the Gotha waves which counterattacked at these muchine, first pursued the enemy at places of Saturday, were amasher to an altitile of. 12,000 feet, from the pièces. When our men were consolidat North Foreland to within fifteen. Ling-the positions at Westhook Ridge, miles off Zeebrugge where he lost the on Saturday, they had to call for enemy. Returning to the mouth of further help from the gunnera. Sin the Thames, he observed the anti- ultaneously, aeroplanes igualled aircraft gun-fire at Southend. He

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there and climbing, observed eight Gotha machines followed by four British machines, steering to the north-east. He climbed up to

Wood and Polygon Wood: The calls were answered by large groups of batteries of guns from fifteen-inch downwards, across a big stretch of country miles deep. The Germans 18,0X) feet and attacked, but with with riffes at the slope and weighted gut result: going thirty miles out to with bombe and trench spades, fell in Simultaneously, he observed i heape. One of our airmen subsequently hostile machine 4,000 feet below the reported that he had never seen so drove down the enemy to the water, enemy formation. He attacked and

many dead."

This is only one of many such the hostile machine tuming over; slaughter. Here is another The with one of its occupants hanging to gunneri "received a report that the Ger its tail, and to whom the British mans were assembling in the Valley of pilot-threw a lifebelt Hanebeke. Two battalions advanced into the open before our guna found them; then, when the storm broke

upon them, they tried to escape by running or

THE throwing themselves down or plunging into shell cratera; but not many escaped nad trbole ranks were blown to bits.

The

enemy cannot evade, such

ENEMY ADVANCE IN

RUMANIA.

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LONDON, Aug. 18

The communiqués do not confirm

slaughter, because these bits of high the report that General Mackensen s ground we are capturing guard the offensive against Rumania is slacken vital centres. He simply must fighting. The battle to the north of and defend them with his full weight Focsani has now lasted six days, in of men aud zurs. His fire, fast Friday which the Rumanians, despite the and Saturday, was the greatest our stoutest resistance against superior mn have faced.

numbers, buve been driven back five Later reports show that in the miles. By their retirement towards counter-attacks ou the Westhoek Marasesti, the Rumanians have pré positions the Germans did not all die sumably lost control of the loop line; of shell fire. The Lancashire Fusiliem, between Tecucin and Marasesti and the North Lancs Regiment, fired which connects with the main ne their rifles all day on Friday and Satur to the north of Focsani. day at human targets which they could General Mackensen how sixteen. not miss. Gerinan reserves were hurried miles froin Adjudul On the reten up to relieve the shattered battalions tion of this position by the and were flung straight into the counter Eumanians, the safety of Genera attacks. They often wandered into the Shicherbatcheff's army, in the Trotus open in full kit, ignorant of our where Valley, largely deperds, for if abouts. The rifle bare reasserted its old Adjudul is lost, the railway up the prominence and whole battalions were Trotua Valley would be useless and massacred.

General Shtcherbstcheff would be After referring to thy big enemy compelled to fall back efforts to dispute our air superiority, Mr. Gibbs concludes:-"The enemy is all out' it seems, and wishes to make: this battle the decisive one of the war. do not see how he can win after the loss of the Pilkem and Westhoek Ridges but he is out to kill, regardless of his own losses."

(Continued on

GERMAN". PRISONERS -ESCOMING

· RICH IN JAPAN,

CAPT. WALDECK'S SAVINŐS,

The vernacular papers never weary of talks of FRENCH REPULSE ATTACKS.

"rorjkin” de Nouveaux Risher who spring up here and there like mushroome after a shower in these cars Loxpox, Aug 13. of the remarkable inlastrial boom. A French communiqué states: parvenus who bayw become now tod say nothing of these shipping eremin ne The urtillery was most

uctive common, there have been springi

springing up number-of-minor war millionaires

spep between Cerny and Craonne, notably bean marikin, glam narikin, on the sector to the south of Ailles, nacular papers comme

nacikies and what not, bat

00 the

where a German attack

appearance of a handful of

tremelés we captured on August 11 venus st

sat Fuknok They are midt to

detineta German prisoners was repulsed with heavy enemy Twingo prisoners came there. They

losses, and without result,

Mainicht says that the German soners there save every month part of their salaries, the average amount per

reached the having already

is (udder), that Captalit Waldeck-rmer commender calam

Two enom surprise attacks, Bo-de-Caurierte und Bezohraux, mad tailed under our fresh

Two enemy aeroplanes and a cap-Taingiau garilaon, is very tive balloon were brought down and tro ven out of his three other acroplanes were forced to land, Heverely

his depsils now astonht 197 19000, 7 Herse. He is called, Anarikin and reiman pisoners Japan Mat