The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-20

man un.ts al that period. ab.a. ESQ., ooo men. opposed the British aa. French on this tw .n,ymlo from. In this battle the Brush air supremacy became dominant By November th, British and Fren.a had taken s, Pierrr.Djytou. Be.umontHamoI and Beaucourt and h.I penetrated Ger man positions l.. a depth ol six miles
 In the spring ,hy Germans. mttcj- patne rosump' ,n of the sommy operations. began what has become known as the "Hudenberg victorious retreat" To ncwly-establtshed Ger man lines. In thts second battle 0. inc Sommr. Bapaume. Irlos, Poronne. Nc,lo. Fayotte. Ggcourl NauN, Rove, Terenier. Ham auI hundreds Of oth- CT positions wer, lost by the Ger mans. In an evacuation which French critics regard as memorial, the Ger- mans left track oG widespread devastation which aroused world wide indignation. The British claim ed capture of nearly 5,ooo prisoners in rh, three months of this German rc,ircmen. for depth of from 10 l5 miles along a front Of about i6 miles.
 In April the British transferred their offensive northeast of Arras. forcing von Hind nberg to redtstrib- ut his forces a.ons d nfteen-m1c front. Canadians played d historic part in this Ugatng. MonchyIc- preaN was taken and Vimy Rtds" was captured af.as one of the worlds blood.cs, battles. Canadians held the ridge against |, pcratc counterat- lacks. This success east If Arras turned Hndenberg'- northern pivot, and British critics regarded it as the greatest in th. history Of British arms in the present war This of fensiyc, continued. placed the British astride the Hmdcaberg line, and the Germans retired 10 positions mile or two west of the Drocourt Queant line. These they held as the third year closed.
 Meanwhile the battles of Cham paign and the Ajsne had been car ried on by the French, who in April captured Auberiye. In the first days of the Champaign offensive, one Of the greatest struggles of the Wal the Germans sustained an estimated loss of 100000 killed, wounded and taken prisoners trough their des- veratc defensive operations. Fighting in these regions continues after three months. during which the French have advanced from one to five miles along a rifw-mile front. The pres ent French line runs from northwest of Soissons through Rheims to Au- beriye.
 In June, 1917, the British began an attack on Mess,nes and Wyschaetc in an effort to straighten out the Ypres salient Again British flyer dominated the air The British had spent an entire year mining the earth for this offensive, which was begun with an explosion so terrific that it was heard in London. Be yond Messines, for two miles east and northeast, tho British won and consolidated ground, captured mor" than 7,400 prisoners and great stores of artillery. Gaining every objective, they placed themselves asuide the Ypres- Confines canal, having adyanc- ed three miles on an eightmile front. Portuguese and Belgian troops aided in this offensive. In recent days the fighting there had been confined to raiidng operations.
 It is estimated that during April May and June the Germans suffered 350,0o0 casualties on the western front.
 The Russions, having in June of 1916 begun an offensive from the Pripct marshes to the ROumanian frontier, speedily captured Czerno- witz and the rest of BukoWina, to- gether with Brody in Galcia, and in August they entered Stanislau for the third time in the war. These ope- rations forced the Austro-Germans to relnquish lines they had held throughout the winter of 19l5-19l6. ) The Halicz bridgehead fell in Sep tember, but the subsequent advance on Lemberg was not prosecuted be cause the plight of ROumania de handed the transfer of Russian