The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-08
Thrust and Counter Thrust FOL-
low Each Other For Thirteen
Hours In Bitter Fighting
North off, the River Mouse
TAiAUMoNT AND FLEURY ARE
OBJEcTlvES OF HOT ATTACKS
Russians and Teutons Alike
Claim Gains Made In Struggle
In East and the Turks Aim
Fresh Attack At Suez Canal
Associated Press BY FEDERAL wirsl..s.)

(AsSociated Press by FEDERAL wIrslsss)
n ARTS, August 6.--Once more the
fighting northeast of Verdun oc
= cupied the center of the war
stage yesterday. Both sides spoke of
the struggle there as having been
"bitter in'the extreme" and the loss
es ipficted on either side by the other
aust have been extraordinarily heavy
Thiaumont Farm and Fleury, two of
the crucial points in the main line. Of
the French defense of the battered
city on the Mouse, were again the OBJ
jective points Of, assaults and counter
assaults, aimed first by one of the riv-
ais and then by tho other. The German
Crown Prince, ordered "A series of at
taeks at Fleury, hoping apparently to
drive the French out of the trenches
they had recently taken there, and for
a time it appeared as though his men
had succeeded in winning the position.
French Regain Ground
But General Petain commanding the
French troops, counter. attacked with
great ferceness and drove the invaders
from their hardly-wOn posts, back to
the trenches they had left but short
time before, and even managed to gain
a little ground that has already cost so
many French and German lives.
At Thiaumont the Germans devel-
Oped a heavy attack early yesterday
morning, sending wave after wave of
gray-coated humanity against the
French positions, which held in spite
Of the terrific pressure oexerted by the
Teutonic infantry. and artillery. The
fighting spread along the whole sector
from ThiaumoHt to F1eury and became
general. - 1.
For thirteen hours the battle lasted
and then died down, with the French
in possession of all their positions, al
though the German official reports men
ton having taken 46S prisoners in the
count er attacks of the French in the
vicinity of Fleury.
New Battle On Somme
North Of Pozieres the British colon
ial troops are again pressing forward,
and according to the Berlin dispatches,
a new battle is rapidly developing
there. The account of this fight issued
by the British war office says that the
colonial troops captured the main Ger
man second line over a front of 1000
wards, which, if held, will give the
British a better front between Thiep-
val aid POZiercs, where they have been
hammered numerically during the last
few days.
OF the eastern front fighting the re-
ports differ radically. Berlin yesterday
asserted that the Slav detachments
which had penetrated the TeutOnic pc.
sitiURs near Ratyseye, on the Serth
river, were later driven back by the
cOunter.attacks of the Teutons, and
forced to retreat to Meidzygory and
,Tchistopudy. The Berlin reports add
that the Russians are now making n
stand on the southern bank of the
Sereth river, but are hard pressed by
the Austrian troops.
SlaVs Claim Gains
The Petrograd dispatches tell diff
ferent story. They declare that the
SlaVs, after hard fighting crossed the
Soreth river south of BrOdy and after
consolidating their newly won positions
"made ready for fresh advances"
In the region of the Carpathians how
ever, Petrograd admits that the Rus
SLAMS who had forced themselves
through the passes in the direction Of
the Hungarian plains, were compelled
to retire in the face of superior Aus,
trian forces, massed against them.
The British are again confronted by
an stack on the SuPz canal. Fourteen
thousand Turks are said to have struck
at the British lines near Roman, TWEEN
ty.two miles east of the waterway, but
were easily THpbised according to the
desPA tc heS sfit6hh london.
Rome reports slight progress by the
Italian troops in the TrentlnO.