The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-23
While Cadorna and Petain
Win, British Launch New
Drive Near Ypres
EVERY COUNTER-ATTA0
IS BEATEN DOWN
AT Verdun. Crown Prince Com
tinues Hammering Heads Of
His Troops Against Granite
Like French
THE WAR AT A GLANCE

THE WAR AT A GLANCE ~
Austro- Italian front-Ital1A0
Izonzo drive continues full blast.
New gains on entire attacking
front despite stiffening Austrian
resistance. Total of prisoners
since Sunday exceeds $4,000.
Booty includes thirty guns. Unof-
fetal estimate of Austrian losses
in killed and wounded Is $4,000.
Vienna admits loss of ground bus
claims capture OF $500 Italians
and fifty machine gums.
West 'front.'. Verdun-Ger.
mans launch unceasing counter
attacks on both banks OF ths
Mouse without regaining q foot Of
ground but suffering heavy Losses.
French make additional local
gains. Totals Of prisoners ap-
proaches 1000 mark. Berlin adj
mits important losses Of ground,
claims Every heavy French
losses"
2. F1ander-Britfsh launch
new drive northwest OF Ypres,
making good Roadway.
g. transformations hold. all
gains against violent Teuton
counter-thrusts. Berlin admits
loss Of coal deposit southwest OF
city.
4. French repulse an German
attacks ----~ ees---
East front-Germans start
drive on Riga. Dwinsk and at
Brody. Petrograd admits retreat
on Riga front.
London, Aug. 22-Her armies in
- . ntnpt~ 49,
hammer blows OF the French at YER
dun and the British at Flanders and
Lens: her Hapsburg allies front
cracking under the sustained strokes
of the italians. Germany today
launched an offensive in the east to
cheer the morale of her troops and
steel the confidence of her people.
In keeping with the fundamental
maxim of her war science which die
tates aggression. first and always
and finding a large scale counter-of-
fensive In the west a physical impos-
stbiltty, she has decided. today's news
indicates. to strike against Russia.
All catering to the Socialists and nom
annexatfonists has been thrown to
the winds. The hope of Turing Rus
STA into an armistice has been aban-
doned. The Teuton armies have been
set In motion against the big Rus
sian port of Riga and the Fortress OF
Dwinsk as we'll as in the strip Of
northeastern Ga1icia still in Musco-
vite hands. This triple offensive is
still in It's embryonic stage Petro-
grad admitted officially today Rus
sian retirement from two to three
versts in front southwest of Riga be-
tween the Tirut swamps and the river
IA.
Germans Generally Beaten.
Meanwhile the German troops In
the west were again defeated at YER
dun. on the Aisne in Flanders and At
Lens, while the Austrian Isonzo army
was forced to yield new ground to thu
Italians. In detail, the developments
OF the last twenty-four hours were.
/. Isonzo-General Cadorna's
troops. according to unofI1cial front
dispatches. occupied Ave additional
villages. The total of prisoners taken
since Sunday exceeds $4,000 the war
office states and thirty guns have
puts the Austrian dead and wounded
since the beginning Of the drive ~
$4,000 The Vienna war ONCE ad-
mitted the evacuation of trenches on
a front Of nine and half miles.
It's official report takes occasion ia
refer to the ten previous Italian
drives on the IsonZo all Of which. Il
says, were failures. The statements
asserts that $500 prisoners and Atty
machine guns were taken from the
Italians.
Still Hammering Head Against wan.
Q verdun-Tn ever new waves the
Crown Princes infantry thrust itself
against the French lines which two
DAYS ago were their own. On both
banks OF the Meuse they counter
attacked throughout the night and
again today Everywhere they ran
against granite. In one OF these a.
saults. between Deadman's hill AMI
Hill 304, they managed. by sheer
weight of masses. to take a foothold
in the French line. But the poilus
carve back strong. In a brilliant
COURIER dash they elected. killed or
captured every Teuton invader. Sixty
prisoners remained in their hands,
Meanwhile French scouting columns
penetrated as far as the Forges Wis
lage.
On the right hank the Teuton
thrusts were particularly furious 70
the north OF Normont farm and q
Hill S44. which was wrested froan
them two days ago. '>Our flres aAyu
the French report. inflicted heavy
losses and broke up the asaaufting
waves. They were unable b approach
our lines at any point"
Shock Troops s'Shoc1ed.~
The same fate vas shared ~
shock trcops'' Of the Crown rxlDoe
that tried. with the no of 1annAn
liquids - snatch baNk 4kuR mo