New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-15
Enter 500 Yards of Trench;
Defeated on Classmates
Plateau
Drumhre at Ypres
Berlin Looks for Immediate
British Offensive in Flanders,
Following Air Raids

LONDON, Sept 14.-Following
short but intense concentration OF
fire. German troops to-day charged
the recently captured French positions
north of Caurieres Wood, on the east
ern bank Of the Meuse, above Verdun,
and succeeded IN entering the defend
ing trenches on front OF 500 yards.
The War Office in Paris. which re-
ports the assault, says that the battle
rs still in progress.
Another sudden effort by the Ger
mans last night 70 wrest from the
French the dominance OF the case,
mates Plateau, near the eastern end
of the Chemin-d failed sig
nally, but not until after violent
engagement with bombs and the bay
Onet, during which, says Berlin, the
German troops penetrated as far as
the second French line. Paris suggests
that it was a major attack, but the
German capital treats the combat as
raid in force by picked Hansestic
and Westphalian shock troops, who in
fiicted heavy losses and brought back
prisoners.
Berlin Claims
Berlin also declares that on Wednes-
day night and the following morning
the British were driven out of the
wooded area north OF Langemarck, in
Flanders, after brisk fighting, In
which many of Haig's men were made
captive. The British War Office, in
describing this attack yesterday, said
that it was repulsed at every point,
after a fierce encounter over mile
front.
The Germans evidently fear that
powerful British offensive is pending
in the Ypres salient, and report to-
day that the artillery battle, which
had been violent from west of LANCE
marck clear around to the Ypres-
Confines Canal rose to drumtlre In
the sector about st. Julien and con-
tinued at that pitch throughout the
night, though no infantry assaults had
developed up to the hour the bulletin
was issued.
Naval Filters Active
General Haig's communique today
is of that coorles brevity which
usually precedes important British
movements. He merely says that there
is nothing of special interest to re-
port. On Wednesday night the Brit
ish naval fliers carried out another
bombing raid over the Chistelles and
Thourout airdromes, all the machines
returning safely. There is now not
a single crossroads settlement or rail-
road junction Immediately back of
the German front IN Flanders which
has not received it's tons of explosives
either fom French or British airplanes
during the last week. In many in
stances the same objective has been
bombed several times and it would
be a natural conclusion that the Ger
man communication system is some
what upset.
Berlin refers TO successful German
raids in Artois, northwest of St.
Quentin and Paris mentions an incur
sion into the hostile trenches in
Champagne to the west OF the Navarin
farm which yielded prisoners.
SCOTS at Allies Efforts
Discussing the situation on the West
front from the German point of view,
Gadke, in the Bremen "Burgerzeitung"
says:
THE enemy says that he does not eX-
pect success quickly. This Is half
truth. The Entente Allies are certain
~ reckoning that the fighting alone,
constantly repeated, even if it does not
bring victory, must finally weaken the
forces of the Central Powers, and they
hope they can replace their own con-
siderable losses by bringing up can
non fodder more easily than we can.
The arrival of the Americans, the re-
sumption of the Russian offensive in
July, the sending Of Japanese assist