Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-17
HEAVY Fighting
ON MANY FRONTS
TOLDBY GERMANS
Official CabIegramS Show leu
tons Have Regained Lost
Ground on West II.
Gtrman 0friaD

GERMAN ARMY IlEtBQUA AR,
TIERS. NOV lG western var thedter
crown Prince Rupprecht-s group Sep
tar.te British attacks on the road from
ATailIp and Serre and further east and
southeast OF Beaumont failed today
Stronger attacks against Cirandeccurt
broke down in our fire IN hard fight,
ing amGng the houses We wrcsted
from the French the eastern part OF
Saillisel IN the evening the Hanover
ian Fusilier REGIMENT No. 13 stormed
tenaciously defended French posi-
ton on the north edge Of ST Pierre
Mast wood. capturing eight Officers,
324 men and five machine guns, 80. =
Ia Yesterdays combats the Abiain-
icourt PresSoire lines were unchanged
Thirty-nine Belgians We're victims
from bombs dropped by hostile aero
lpIanes Asa reprisal for the bombing
OF peaceful foreman villages, Nancy
during the last few days has been
shelled and bombed. .@z
Eastern arena Prince i.eOpolds
front Near the bridge head of Duen-
! hof. southeast OF Riga, an attacking
Russian infantry detachment was
driven back. On Archduke CARTS front.
i'm, the southern part Of the wooded
lCarpathians, mutual artillery activity
revived On Transylvanian east front,
east Of Putna valley, strong Russian
attacks failed North of Nulta strong
Austrian attacks were made in a re-
tconnoitering raid against Mount Alu-
mis-. Elsewhere the Rumanians offer
red tenacious defense, but We made
F, progress, capturing five officers and
over 200 soldiers
Balkan arena Field Marshal Won
Mackensen' s army has had only minor
engagements in Dobrudja. The Ru-
manian report of the occupation of
Bonasouo is an invention. AT several
places on the Danube there We're ar
ktillerv duels On the Macedonian
front a prepared new position in the
Czerna river sector has been occupied
| BY us On Struma river only skirm-
ishes and patrol engagements. ...
Wednesdays Fighting
GERMAN ARMY HEADQUAR.
TIERS. Nov. 15.-West front. Crown
! Prince Rupprechts group; The bat
tie north of the Somme continues. The
struggle today has been going on from
morning to night and with November
/ IA makes one great battle.
| The English hoped to take adv2n-
| tage of success obtained at the begin
ming and attacked therefore with
| strong masses OF troops north of the
Ancre and several times between Les
ars and Guedencourt They succeeded
-, - ntt,~f
/ but all the other places on long front
! they were thrown back with heavy
/ losses in front OF our positions. In
| the repulse of the hostile attacks Mag
deburg Infantry Regiment No. Go and
Bayarian Infantry Regiment 169 and
I regiments of the 4th Guards, infan.
/ try division, especially distinguished
] themselves
The French employed strong forces
/ in order to capture the forest of ST
] Pierre Vast out attacks were com
| pletely fruitless and ended in bloody
defeat.
+ Eastern arena. Prince Leopold S
I group On the east bank of the Nary.
/ oyka river furious Russian attacks
/ against the positions west of Folly
Krasnolesie, recently captured by as
were all repulsed, in one place by a
| counter-attacE
4 On Archduke Carl's front, east Tran
I sylyania, there was TO-DAY only minor
/ activity. In the forest and mountain
engagements along the roads leading
into Valacy, which were successful for
us, the RumanIlns yesterday lost %
officers. 1900 men taken prisoners
and four cannon and several machine
guns.
Macedonian, front: Bulgarian troops
among whom one regiment of Balkan
/ ski of the Bulgarian emperor, with
stood violent french attacks OH the
plain Of Monastir. In Czerna bend the
enemy capture some heights. In or
] der to avert flank attacks our defense
positions there have been moved back