Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-13
GERMANS RETAKE
CITY OF KR0NSTADT
RUMANIANS FORCED TO WITH
DRAW FROM NEAR CITY IN
FACE OF LARGER FORCE.
RUSSIANS ADVANCE SLOWLY
Kaiser Tells Of Gratitude on War
ptions-His Confidence Is
Strengthened and He Thinks
viii Lead to Victory.

London, Oct. 9.-The most impor-
tant development in European battle
fronts is the forced withdrawal of
Rumanian troops near Kronstadt, Fo-
agras and Hermannstadt in the face
of superior forces Austro-Germans
have recaptured Kronstadt, the most
important commercial city in Tran
sylvania.
In the Dobrudja region, Russians
and Rumanians are advancing south
ward against the Teutonic allies.
In Macedonia the contending sides
have been engaged for the most part
in artillery duels. A like condition
prevails on the Austro-Italian front.
On the western front in France the
British have captured all of the town
of Lesars, and also made gains north
and northeast of Courcelette and
southwest TO Gueudecourt Germans
have recaptured trenches that had
been taken from them north of Les
boeufs.
kronstadt Recaptured.
Berlin.-Kronstadt, leading indus
trial and commercial center of Tran
sylvania, which was occupied by Ru-
manians upon their entry into the
war, has been recaptured by the Aus
tro-German forces, the war office
announces.
The Franco-British thrust of Sat
urday on the Somme front is charac-
terized by German army headquarters
as a new attempt on large scale to
break through the German lines be-
tween the Ancre and the Somme. The
effort failed, and only, it is declared,
at Lesars and at isolated points to
the south were the attacking forces
able to enter German positions.
Kaiser Is Grateful.
An official statement issued Sun
day gives the following message,
which Emperor William has sent to
Chancellor Won HoIlweg:
More than ten and a half milliards
of marks have been raised for the
war loan by all classes of the people,
thus making the total sum placed at
, the disposal of the fatherland in long
term loans about forty-seven milliard
marks.
This result has been attained at
a time when the enemy is making his
most ferocious and strongest attacks
against us, and must be considered
an expression of the unshakable con
fidence of the nation in itself and its
. future.
Germany continues to work amid
the devastations of war So long as
every one gives to the empire what
p he profits from this work the EN-
: pire reposes inexhaustibly on it's OWL
= strength. Gratefully l feel my conf
dence strengthened that the uncon
querable spirit of all our people will
= lead us to victory
Squirt South of Somme Success.
: London, Oct. 11.-French troops
: fighting south of the Somme have
: bent German lines considerably ovel
front of about two and half miles
T. from Bovent to the Chaulnes wood
capturing in the operation the vii
5 lage, the north and west outskirts
9 of Ablaincourt and most of the Chaul
+ mes wood. Little activity was shown
on the British front.
In Pennsylvania the Germans ar
:. closely pressing the retreating Ru
manians. In the fighting aroun,
: Kronstadt 1175 Rumanians were mad
prisoner.
The Galician village of Herbutoy
has been stormed by the Germans
and in Volhynia the Russians hav
> been driven out of advanced pos
tions northwest of Iutsk