Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-09-22
In Wake Of Volcanic Blasts TOmmes Go Over the Top
at Sunrise, DOggedly Charging Through
Marshes Bristling With Guns
FIVE BARRACKS PREPARE THE WAY
tantc Effort Part Of Plan to Make Kasers Sea Bases
Untenable---The Enemy Is Massing For
RetaEatory Smashes.

Another concentrated effort by
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, the
British Commander-in-chief, to break
down the German defenseS east Of
Ypres is under way. A British drive
along front of 8 miles between the
Ypres-Comines and the Ypres Staden
railways was started at dawn Thurs
day morning. AT nightfall the British
commander reported the occupation
OF important positions, the capture Of
more than 1900 prisoners and the
infection of heavy casualties on the
Germans.
Concrete redoubts, hundreds of
machine guns, barbed wire entangIe-
ments and marshy ground faced the
British in their storming operations,
but heavy guEs had cut down mann
of the barriers and the British went
forward steadily, gaining all the OBJ
iectives laid down in the plan of OPP
erations for the first day and pene-
trating the German lines in places for,
mile or more. .
The official report from Field Mar.
shall Haig characterizes the result Of
the days battle as a great successauG
the Associated Press staff CORES
pOndent at the front declare that If
the British maintain the positions to
which they have advanced They
will have accomplished one of the
most remarkable and most important
achievements in recent months"
Strong German forces had been
assembled for the purpose of holding
back the British troops in this most
important sector, and the tremendous
bombardment which had been going
on daily, several times reaching drum
fire intensity, presaged a determines
effort to break through and the Ger
man resistance at many points was Of
the fiercest nature. The weather H
reported favorable for the contua-
ton of the battle, and as the visibility
is improving the flying men are taking
prominent part, both in the way Of
observation, air fighting and attacks
upon the enemy infantry and batter,
les.
On the French front no importa1t
fighting is reported except German
attack southeast of Cerny, which VAS
checked by the French fire beSsrx
the enemy reached the French line,
and French attacks near hill 344 ami
east of Samogneux, which broke
down without success, according o.
the Berlin war Office.
The Russians are determinedly r.
sisting the attacks of the Teutonic Il
lies on the Riga front. After a slrons
infantry attack of the Germans in The
region east of Lemberg, Left troons
organized a daring counter altadt
which, with the energetic co-opera--
ton OF the artillery, drove the enemT
back with heavy losses.
In the Ocna region on the Ruma-
man front the Germans by a couwer
attack forced the Rumanians to ah9r-
dou positions they had preyionfV
aiken from the Teutons.
In the Caucasus region, battles IT,
tween the Russians and KurdS con-.
.inue in freezing temperature viii
he snow four feet in places.
Baron Rhondda, the British fond
has made announcement
hat he intends to inaugurate a new
God economy campaign, owing tor
shortage in the worlds supply ofoe-
'eals and fats. Baron Rhondda de-
Jared that if voluntary measures
allied he would have mo compUnr.
ion in putting the nation ON conpuL
DRY rationS.
Picking dispatches say that the Chi
leSe government is willing 10 senS
OO, 900 troops to France if the entente
owers approve. A Toxic disna.cb
avs Japan has been sounded on This
roposition and there are indicafon1
nat Japan will not oppose such A.