The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-22
Holds Troops Intended to b
Used in" Steam-Roller Move
on Riga Front
OTTOMAN TROOPS
SEEN IN RIGA SECTION
French Win Small Successes
in Their Perpetual Hammers
ing at German Lines Drawn
About Verdun

London. Sept 21-The allied rnen~
ace to Combes and Pcronne has die
tated during the week past some i'm.
portant and unexpected. changes IN
the plans of the German great gene
erai staff Fl
The capture OF Bouchavesnes. half
way between the two vital Teuton
bases on the somme. the subsequent
severance of communication between
/ them and the partial development q
Combles forced Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg to dispatch $4,000 addf.
uonal troops to the Somme front ~
Wrest back Bouchavesnes cost what r.
may. Il.
Moreover. these allied successes
threw spoke in the wheels of a Ger.
man "steam-roller." which evidently
was scheduied to be set in motion
| against the Russians on the Riea
front
Such are the conclusions inevftahav
forced by the announcement con.
tanned in the French Official midniSfrt
communique that the Eighteenth Ger.
man army corps hastily withdrev
from the Aisne front, headed yester.
days futile counter blows around
Bouchavesnes, and that one German
division was recalled to the Picardv
"nen Already half way en- route to tho
eastern theater.
Today there was no action on =
large scale on the Somme front tha
eiiies devoting all their efforts to con.
soIdating their new lines and beafinr
on German counter-attacks, New ZAa-
iand contingents distinguishing them
selves IN repelling assaults on ~.
BRUSH line south Of the Ancre. IT,
french won success at verdunss
takins trench elements southeast T.
| Ant aA1 a.nsaI4
ahead 100 yards In the Vaux Charf3
wood. on the right bank Of the Meu61 ]
All dispatches from the sommSs
'front.' agree that yesterdays assaults
oy the troops under the Bavartan
crown prince were supreme effort
TO retake Bouchavesnes. unofnciaI
accounts describe the Teuton losses il
the vain attempts as enormous.
The special correspondent Of Il
LAnerte asserts that Hindenburg hin,-
SELF directed the storming columns.
altogether 10000 strong. Whole bat-
taiions were moved down. other
eyewitnesses declare
Ihe withdrawal OF an entire armx
corps-40, 600 men-from the Afsne
front explains the sudden attack n
the Champagne by the Germans two
nights ago, military critics believing
that they were aimed at screening"
LII WiSIluI a WILL lIfeaf-1QrCAH haA
oeen massed west of the Aisne. Il II
oeheved for an eventful thrust,
against the Paris-verdun Railway.
rms plan is. temporarily at least, ir,-
capa Die OF execution because of the
forced weakening OF the front.
A late dispatch from Petrograd 70.
nlght says Turkish troops have ap-
peared on the Riga front led by Ger.
man and Austrian officers The Otto
man troops were DISPATCHED to rhs
northern end OF the Russian front It Il
believed. when it became evident that
no German contingents could Sc
spared.
Inc German war Office reported this
afternoon the repulse of British at
attacks north of Combles. 1t is con.
ceded that ground southwest of Ran.
court and in Bouchavesnes previously
regained by the Germans, was Welded.
after bitter fighting" South of Ran.
court the Germans held their ground.
1t Is stated. The repulse of French
attacks in the verdun sector also II
reported by Berlin. 4.