The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-09-29
IEUT0NS FALL
BACKFURTHER
Before ALLIES
IN WEST ZONE
British Capture 1000 Yards
S.Npfe Of German Trenches and
cdtLines Of Enemy When lat
Ter FaiIto Hold Masssd Troops
FRENCH TAKE OVER
STRATEGIC POSITION

49, |"ff~. HtNio SutS W aittC
Troops Of Allies Gain over
Their Opponents and Add TO
Their Holdings On Battlefield
tAssooisssd Press " f.dsrai wireless,
lnARIs, September 2s-yren thou.
sand German prisoners have
- been taken by the Allies in the
fighting north Of the River Somme
in the last week, and the British and
1 French continue storming theft way
north and east, capturing fresh posi-.
lions and forcing the TeiitD7fp farther
back. The British yesterday, IN their
Icapture OF 1000 yards OF German
trenches between F7ers and Fancourt
ll'Abbaye, cut the last Of the German
lines as they EXISTED when the big
ldrive began last July. w
i Pie French did that some time AGO.
.wheh they drove the German regiments
Tout Of the positions they were holding
east Of Bouehayesnes and Bots liable
farm 800 meters, or approximately $50
i yards, to the southeastern the Peronns.
llBapaume Bethune road. That was
done September ~ in series Of rushes
that carried the mass Of soldiers over,
the German entertainments and cleared
the Teutons out of them at the point
of the bayonet.-.
Position Of vital Importance rs.
The importance which the German
commander, Grown Prince Ruppreeht
!, of Bavaria, attached to this position,
was again illustrated yesterday when
he directed q series Of attacks upon the
French lines at Bois Liable farm and
lBouchavesues. The strategic position
Of the French here is Of enormous
lvalue to General Foeb and equally so
:, to the Crown Prince Rupprecht. High.
road No. 81 of the great arteries feed.
!, ing the German front has been cut be-
Il tween Bapaume and Peronpe, and by
u their advance beyond Hin 76 the
French now menace directly and al
n ready sweep with their artillery the
main road from Paris 10 Lille via Cam
brai the loss of which Is expected ITO
force the German high command to
consider seriously the necessity of a
Withdrawal 20 the inner line, Douai,
Cambria, Laon, that famous "short-
4 ening Of the 'front.' that is expected
n here to mark the beginning of the end.
n Peronne Is now under French fire
from the north, west, and south, which
cuts IL from all communications except
d along communication trenches or by
4 dangerous night transport. zgS
French Guns Command Psrons
South Of Rancourt, which lis now in
French hands, lies Hill 145. This
height commands the entire plain in
Il this section Of the battlefield, rs far
Fsouth as the slopes Of Mount st. Quen.
} tin, which is the key TO Peronne. In
/ cidentally the French guns on Hill l46
command PeTohe from that hill, which
10 hardly four miles in an airline from
the center of the town. Also the hill
makes il almost impossible for the Ger
mans I'd counter successfully in that
i sector of the front, save ut loss that
would prove staggering. Fi'*'
ri North of Raucourt the French at
4 tackled again yesterday and drove the
Germans still farther east, entering the
skirts, OF the large wood of st. Pierre
Vast, which is about q mile wide by
a mile and quarter long in its great
/, est dimensions.
While the French were thus thrusting
forward, their British ALLIES were con.
timing to drive the Teutons back In
1.-THE direction OF Bapanme. Preceded
Iby heavy artillery attack the British
! launched series Of attacks north of
: Flers. The Germans stood stnbbornly
for a time, but later broke and began
surrendering in large numbers. Moro
. than 1000 prisoners were added to the
5 lipomber taken during the past week,
bringing them TO more than 10000.
Another German Redoubt Fails
81 Northeast Of Thiepyal, taken by
u storm the day before, the British cap.
! tured another German redoubt, making
| use of tanks OF aTmored automobiles
carrying machine guns. The ground
over which the advance Is now proceed.
! ing, permits the use Of these tractors,
and they are proving more than a
match for the machine guns Of the
i South Of the somme the French re.
, sumo their, attacks against the Ger
man lines and yesterday reported the
capture Of a wood, heavily fortified
Iby. the Germans, 20 the east Of Ver-
mandoyillers NJ yt5
III Hhe htuauon IN the east is not so
satisfactory from the allied point of
Iyiew. Bucharest chronicled a victory
for the Rumapian troops lighting In the
Trahsylyanian Alps There the allied
forces succeeded in driving the Austro-
German troops out of their positions in
the Jiu valley, but Berlin reported that
the Teutops had made progress near
Hemmahnstadt, and the Bulgafians are
Aa
Entente troops over the whole of the