The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-11-14
Three Thousand Prisoners; Many
Machine Guns and Other Booty
Captured BY German Drive Up
on the Eastern Battle Front
FIERCE AERIAL BATTLE
REPORTED ON WEST LINE
Thirty British BattIepIanes and
Forty German Machines En-
gage In Fearful Struggle High
In Air Over Heads of Troops
ASSOCIATED Pres. by Federal wir.lessJ

ASSOCIATED Press by Federal wireless)
DARIS, November ll-Driving
l. against the center of the Rus
sian line on the eastern front yes
erday the Germans smashed their
way through the first trenches and
forced back the Slavs over a width
If two and one half miles to the
'eCond line trenches, capturing
1000 prisoners, many machine guns
and other munitions and equipment.
This fight, which came as a sur
,)riSe to the Russians, took place
Ibout twelve miles northeast Of the
'ity of Baranovichi. north Of the
PinSk marches where there has
been such desperate fighting in the
Dast. The attack was carefully cal
culated. and driven home with an
utter disregard of cost, which car
led everything before it.
Slavs Admit Defeat
Petrograd admitted in tho official
tatement issued last night by the
Russian general staff that the as
;auIt had been successful, and that
he Russian line had been penc-
rated.
Elsewhere in the west the strug-
Gle continues with but little varia-
non, and the reports of the daV
how that comparatively few at
ACks were made and those for the
most part unsuccessful on both
sides.
In the DObrudja district how
ever the reports tell a different
story. There the Russians and Ru-
nanIanS are continuing their often
i've against the troops under the
command Of General Won Macken-
en-, anil are driving the Germans
nd BuIgarlans ont Of the positions
hey captured few weeks ago,
and closing up the gaps in the En-
tentc line.
Nearing Vital Railway
The 1pproaCh to the railroad that
pans the district from the Black
sea to the Danube, and which is
rltaI to any operations against Bull
yaria is continuing slowly, assert
'e dispatches from Bucharest and
PctrOgrad.
nh" Russians two miles west Of
'chrrr". oda are fighting for an i'm
ort"ht river bridge across the Danube
n tn" bphrud.ia district. The Ru.
nan ans hive suffered IA reverse Mt the
rnds Of the Teutons and have been
'"'""n from the region west Of Buzcu
valley.
The dispatches from Berlin deny
that the Germans have been defeated
II Rumania and add that the Tcutons
made progress against the Rumanians
in the Predel sector, Pennsylvania, and
""pulS"d many countrr-attucks...
French Claim Gains
In the West the French claim slight
gains in their attacks upon the Ger
mans holding positions north and south
of the Somme river Berlin however
hatly denies this and states that the
Teutons have rcpulsed all assaults in
ficting heavy losses upon the nssail,
ants.
There has been extraordinary aerial
activity on the Western front during
the last twenty-four hours according
% reports from Berlin, London aud
Paris. In one engagement the Allies
are reported to have had thirty British
aeroplanrS engaged against forty Ger,
mans. Berlin declares that seventeen
Of the Entente flies were dOwned, while
the French official communique states
that ten of the German airmen were
killed by the British. London Off.
'iniIy admits that seven of the Brit
tsh aviators failed to return