Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-12-05
What Was intended as DupI-
cate Of Drive in Italy Costs
Kaiser Terrific Losses in
Killed and Wounded.
HAIG CONTINUES TO
HOLD HIGH GROUND
TeutonS, Heavily Reinforced by
Divisions From Russian
Front, Stake Everything on
Furious Assaults,
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With the British Army in France,
Dec. 4.-That Field Marshal Haig
prevented the Germans from breaking
through his lines on the Cambria front
discounts the small gains which the
enemy hosts achieved yesterday at &
terrible cost in life. 1t means that
yesterdays critical period has been
successfully passed and that for the
second time in four days Field Mar.
shal Haig thwarted what is believed to
have been German attempt to dupl-
cate tho German -Austro II hungarian
performance in Italy
Germans were collected from the
eastern theater and various parts of
the German line in the west. At La
Vacquerie the enemy fought his way
through the town and one party pen
etrated for some hundred yards into
British territory This was the ex-
treme gain. The attacking forces
secured a very narrow strip of ground
and at La Vacquerie the British clung
tenaciously to, the high ground nortl,
of this place,
The British commander voluntarily
pulled back his line to the west and
southwest of Masnieres to make 1t
firmer. This morning the British line
was near the western part of Marco
ing copse but included Marcoing; a
small triangular piece of territory,
therefore, has been sacrificed by the
British. Since & O'Clock last night the
line has remained unchanged.
A heavy concentration of German
guns east of Gonnelieu suffered great
ly by the excellent British counter-at
tack and battery work. Things ap-
peared much brighter in the camp
this morning. The battle has prob
ably not run its course but the British
forces from now on will be in much
better condition to handle the situa'
ton.
The Germans appare emily have
ceased the reckless expenditure Of
lives of their troops In trying to blot
out the Cambria salient held by Cen
eral Byng's forces. After four days
of onslaughts that have been charac-
tcrized as equalling any previously
witnessed during the war, only the
artillery now is engaged. Although
the Germans claim the capture OF
more than 5000 British prisoners and
more than 100 guns, reports from
the British war office and from cor
respondents Indicate that the German
loss in men killed, wounded or made
prisoner was terrible price to pay
for the very small recovery of lost
terrain.
While it is expected that further at
tacks will be delivered on the Cam
brai sector, which is salient vitally
menacing to the important railroad
junction of Cambria the British
troops are declared now to be in a
better position to offer stronger re-
sistance than heretofor
AS yet the anticipated renewal by
the Austro- Germans OF their infantry
attacks on large scale against the
Italians on the Venetian front has not
materialized. The enemy artillery,
however, continues active from the
Asiago plateau eastward toward the
headwaters of the Pave river. On
the Trentino front an enemy attack
which was prepared for by heavy
bombardment met with repulse.
Along the Piave valley the italians
have again dispersed Austrian divi-
sions forming for attacks.
In Palestine the battle between the
Turks and the British for possession
of Jerusalem has not begun. Taken
all in all there Is no change In the
situation in this section, although
General Allenby's forces have carried
out small offensives in the nature of
raids and killed or captured the occu-
pants of Turkish trenches.
The Russian general staff head
quarters on the northern Russian
front has been captured by the Boil
sheviki troops under Ensign Kdylen-
ko. The headquarters capitulated
without fighting, but General Duk'
honin, the commander-in-c who
declined to carry out the orders of the
Bolsheviki to negotiate an armisticc
with the Germans, was thrown from O
train by Bolsheviki troops and
killed