Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-08
DRIVING AT HEART
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factors OF this success are: air control
and she'll supply.
The former made 1t possible for the
allies to locate enemy concentrations.
the latter to break them up before
they could develop into serious Often
sive action. at the same time permit
ting their own concentration of men
and guns to be carried out with clock
work regularity unhampered by enemy
interference.
HAVE NOT LOST SINGLE
GUN SINCE JULY n
THE British are thus able to report
that since July 81 last they have not
lost single gun. while they have cap
tured 332 field and heavy guns and
taken SLABS prisoners. During the
lighting of the past two days they
have added 4.446 prisoners, including
ia officers. to this imposing total.
The enemy realizes the danger he
Is facing.
we may expect him to counter
attack in force. He may even re-
gain certain secondary detectives tenn
porarily. but the British war machine
is moving forward. and II time per-
mits and the combat season remains
open. with the weather continuing ia
vorable for reconnaissance and care
full aircraft observations, the allied
victories Of the past two weeks will
In all probability be repeated and ex-
tended.
Along the other sectors of the
western front. artillery duels have
been frequent. more particularly on
the east bank OF the Meuse north of
Verdun. as well az along the Aisne
front. in the region of Pantheon and
Hurtcbise
The Germans also showed a GER
tain activity along the verdun sec
tor, particularly in tho vicinity of
hill 344.
East OF Rheims they were apparent
~ massinE troops for an attack. These
preparations. however. were broken
up by allied artillery fire and the
attack failed to materialize.
The enemy pressure along the east
ern front has been relieved by the
strong allied offensive in Flanders. No
engagements OF more than local i'm
portance are reported in the east.
me German advance in the north
east has apparently weakened. and tho
russians have been able to reoryan-
lie their positions in the Riga sec
tor.
In the Italian war zone. unsuccess-
ful attacks by the Austrians on the
italian positions In the Monte San Ca
briele sector are reported. The en-
emy's efforts to gain ground in this
sector In every case failed.
In another powerful drive. tho
i,ailans captured the high ground south
or Podiaca. taking l4O9 prisoners IN
Guiding forty-nine officers.
intermittent artillery activity ia "a.
ported from the other sectors OF the
front.
NEWS FROM RUSSIA
Is MORE ENCOURAGING
News from the Russian front ts
more encouraging. Heavy lighting is
reported as taking place there.
An enemy attack was checked by
Russian artillery fire. a Bulgarian nd.
vance was also driven back.
From Mesopotamia news reached ~.
that the British have scored a decide5
success. After an encounter with the
turkish forces lasting twenty-four
hours they occupied the town OF Ra
madi. an important junction of roads
sixty-hve miles west of Bagdad taking
considerable number Of prisoners
' aSli'ily III the air during the
past week has been marked. Important
raids by the allies We're conducted
against strategic detectives on the
Flemish coast. along enemy lines of
communication and supply dumps.
n well co-ordinated aerial attack by
the British naval air craft was car
rfed out against the lock gates at Zee
brugGe and the aerodrome in the
vicinity of Bruges. The allies are,
Furthermore, extending their raids TO
the Interior OF Germany especially in
the Rhineland. Stuttgart and Frank
were again bonn
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