The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-14
GERMANS LOST HEAVILY
 IN ATTACK ON BRITISH
Germans Drop Bombs on Americans Behind the Lines, Killing Engineers Attempts Were Made to Bomb a Marching American Column, but the Soldiers Escaped Without Injury.

New York. Dec 13.-The British. French and Italian lines still are hold ing firmly against onslaughts ol the Teutonic allies delivered with the heavy endorsements that have been drawn from the Russian front since the cessation of hostilities there un- der the armistice.
 The latest attack of the Germans, made in the Cambrai region between Bullecourt and Queant was a com plete failure when the Teuton losses in men killed and made prisoner are put in the balance with the small gain of ground against the British; another attack by the German crown prince in the Cauviers Wood which was deliy- cred with large effectives, has met with the customary repulse, while in 1 the highlands of the northern front the enemy armies are still being held in check by the Italians.
 A most expensive operation was the ! German attack on Wednesday be- tween Bullecourt and Queant The l
 few British shelters and ninety pris- oners were taken, while Field Mar 1 shal Haig reports that heavy casual ties were inflicted on the enemy all
 along the front of the offensive, mum
 bers of his dead being left before en- tanglements when the impossible task
 of piercing the British lines became apparent and a hurried retreat was
 ordered.
 Finding that the failure of the Aus
 trians to break through the Italian front were futile, the German troops under General von Beulow have re- | inforced their allies and have deliv- cred another powerful assault between
 the Brenta and Piave rivers. At only
 one point, however. were the com 1 bined Teutonic forces able to dent the 1 line of the defenders, on Monte Spin oncia, where they secured a temporary 1 foothold after having sustained se- were casualties. Here the Italians are striving valiantly to retake the ] lost position. Snow and mist are hampering the operations in this re- zion.
 Reports as 10 the operations be- tween the Bolshevid and Kaledines forces in Russia are beclouded by req son of variant statement of results. Both sides are credited with victories in different unofficial versions of the operations. One report says Kale- dimes is beseiging Rostov-on-Don and that fighting is in progress in the vic inity of that city where men and guns from the Black sea fleet are aiding the Bolsheviki.
 Another dispatch asserts that Gen eral Korniloff has routed the Bolshe- wiki near Bielgorod, while still an- other says that Korniloff had been wounded and is in danger of capture and that attempts by Kaledines' fol- lowers to cut off food supplies to the Bolsheviki in Moscow and Petrograd and from Siberia have failed.
 l The German submarine menace is being held, but has not yet been mas | tered, according to the first lord of the British admiralty. In statement
 the first lord says downward trend
 of mercantile marine losses. the con struction of merchant ships and the humber of enemy submarines that ar1 being destroyed. all are satisfactory. Another high naval authority says the Germans have been attempting a submarine offensive of the greatest possible magnitude, but that they had
 slgnally failed and have had to pny a
 heavy price in vessels lost at the
 hands of the American and entente naval forces.
 Aerial bombs dropped by the Ger
 mans on town behind the British front caused the death of American
 railway engineers. In another town Herman ayiators attempted to bomb q lmarehing American column, but all