The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-14
Entire Town Passed Into Hands
Of Pollus After Repeated Char
ges In Which the German De-
tenders Suffered Heavy Losses
BOTS De ST. PIERRE WAIST
NOW thanked FROM NORTH
Rumanians and Russians Con-
tinue Their Terrific Attacks
Against the Lines Of Won Mac
kensen Driving Him Back

NAssociated fress by Federal Wireless.)
~ ARTS, November l3-The French
have been again successful in
their attacks upon the Germans
north of the river Somme, and yester-
day the entire village of Saillisel fell
into their hands, after a prolonged and
bloody series of assaults, in which the
German artillery was completely blank
eted by the French seventy fves and
heavier guns.
The German casualties were ex.
tremely heavy as the troops under
Crown Prince Rupprecht made the
most desperate efforts to drive back
the attackers. The wreckage effected
by the French artillery fire is said to
have been frightful.
Whole trench sectors are said to
have been blown smooth, the barbwire
entanglements completely obliterated,
and the German defenders wiped out
of existence, or buried under the de-
bris of their own dug outs, and forced
TO surrender when the French infantry
reached them.
Strategic Gain Great
More important than the actual
ground gained by the French il the
strategic Importance of their victory.
Saillisel is located northeast of 'Une
Of the most important Of the German
positions on the Somme front, the
woods of st. Pierre WAIST, which in
turn is one Of the protecting outworks
for the key to PPrOnne, Mount Saint
Quentin.
These woods also endangPr the
French lines southwark to Bouchave-
mes. This is the "farthCst east " of the
French line on the SOmme front, and
the French troops have been at times
hard put to it to hold their position
in face of the German counter attacks,
supported from Mount Saint Quentin
and st. Pierre Vast.
Elsewhere on the western front the
fighters have passed a fairly quiet day,
with little but the customary daily ar
tillery fire to break the mOnOtOny of
everyday trench existence.
Upon the eastern and the Rumanian
fronts, however, there is a different
tale to tell. In Dobrud ia the Rumani
ans have continued to bear down the
opposition of the German Bulgarian
| Turkish allies, and are driving Won
| Mackensen back over a fifty mile front.
The official dispatches from Petrograd
| and Bucharest last night announced
that the troops under the command of
| General AvorescO are still pressing
home their offensive just to the north
| Of the COnstanZa- Tchernavoda railroad.
Germans Falling Back
The German commander has been
forced to fall back to a front running
from TOPAZ, through Inancensne to Ka-
| 10 m
be making heroic efforts to stem the
Slav- Rumanian tide that threatens to
engulf his armies but so far has been
| unable to effect a stand against the
human food the Russians are pouring
down upon him and his men.
The reinfOrcements which RussiP is
sending to the aid Of the Rumanians
| are also being felt farther to the north,
about fifty miles south of the border
| of the Austrian crown land of the Blu
kowiha. Here is the crucial contest of
the whole Rumanian line. 1t is against
the flank Of the Russian arimes menac-
! ing Lemberg that the Germans in the
Dobrudia district and along the
Transylvanian Alps are really pushing,
for Rumania, while threat to Bull
garia and q thorn in the side of Aus
triu is not a vital menace to the leu
! tonic allies.
But Russia il. and if her vast legiOns
in Galicia and the Bukowina can be
fanked they will be forced to withdraw
and the gains make last summer by the
steam roller OF General BrusilOff will
have been lost to the Gar.
1t is therefO'e Won Falkenhayn rather
than Won MuckensPn that the Allies
are watching, and the report that the
Russian guns and men, large numbers
of which have been sent to aid King
Ferdinand in his efforts to protect his
western frontier, have reached the fight,
ing front in time TO stop the ad-
vance of the Teutonc forces, has been
hailed with delight in this city and
London.