The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-08-21
ANOTHER VICIOUS BLOW
AT GERMAN LINES
CANADIANS AND FRENCH
RUSH FORWARD.
Fire From Newly Cap
tured Ground Presages An
other Drive i'm Flanders.

tacks against the new positions cap
tured by the Canadians in their re-
cent Offensive in the region of Lens.
Saturday morning the Germans
forced their way into the Canadian
trenches northwest of the French
mining center, but after furious
hand-to-hand fighting they we're
elected, leaving a considerable num-
Der of dead on the battlefield.
On the Belgian front from the
North seacoast to the Ypres sector,
where the British and French in
their offensive begun in the middle
of the week took 1.SOO prisoners and
PA guns, the French again have
pushed forward. capturing a strong
German point of support east Of the
Steenbeke river. The British have
organized their newly conquered
terrian and the artillery lombard
ment on this front again has assum-
| ed a degree of drum-fre intensity.
presaging another vicious blow at
the German lines. The Berlin war
Office now admits the loss after Sc
we're fighting of the Belgian village
OF Langemarck northeast of Ypres,
and says the German troops have
occupied lines in front of the posi-
tions conquered by the British.
French Repulse Attacks.
On the river Asne front the Ger
man crown prince directed a number
of attacks on the French trenches.
notably in the vicinity of Froidmont
farm. but all were rcpuIscd. Prep
arations for German assault in the
Massiges sector of the Champagne
region were broken up by French
fire. On the Verdun front a spirited
French attack swept over the Ger
man positions in CaurIeres wood, en-
abling the French to retake all the
trenches which had been wrested
from them by the Germans on Au-
gust 16 and II.
Aviators Of all the belligerents on
the western front were particularly
| actice as the week closed. French
aviators shot down seven German
machines and forced eight others to
land in a badly damaged condition
On the night of August 17-l8,
! French aerial squadrons dropped
fourteen tons OF explosives on Ger
man aviation grounds, railway sta
tions and encampments. British air
men destroyed twenty-three Teuton
airplanes and forced thirteen others
to land Eleven British planes and
two French machines, according to
the British and French reports, did
not return. The Germans claim to
have accounted for twenty-six en-
tente airplanes.
Austrians Take Much Booty.
On the eastern front military ac-
tivity was largely confined to the
/ Rumanian front, south OF Grozechti
in southwestern Moldavia. forces of
Archduke Joseph, OF Austria, at
tackled the Rumanian and Russian
troops, taking more than 800 pres
oners. In the last month, according
to the German general headquarters
the AustroGermans, fighting in
Galicia, Bukowina and Rumania.
captured $4,000 officers and men.
257 guns. 548 machine guns. 5O,-
600 rifles and a large quantity of
other war material.
A recrudescence of fighting has
broken out in the Caucasian front,
both the Russians and Turks taking
the offensive in sectors 800 miles
apart. Russians in the region OF
Kharput, west of Lake Van, attack
ing for the first time since the rev.
olution on the Caucasian front, oc-
cupied a series of Turkish villages.
Further west the Turks attacked
the Russians at Baneh, in the Mosul
region. and forced the defenders TO
retire to other positions.
British light naval forces on Au-
gust 16 engaged a German destroyer
in the North sea. The Teuton war
ship, though repeatedly hit, escap-
ed through the mine field in a mist.
Later the British warships attacked
several German mine-sweepers and,
according to a British admiralty re-
port, severely damaged two OF them.