Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-13
ACTION FOLLOWS
. EXPOSE OF MUT|NY
ON BATTLESH|PS
Successor of Won Tirpitz
Subject of Bitter At
tacks by Socialists.
ALWAYS ARDENT DEFENDER
OF SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN
More Than Usually Heavy Rain
fall Forces Haig to Halt
in Operations.
SPLENDID START Is MADE
British Gain Ground Over Fronts
Ranging Up to 1000 Yards Be.
fore Weather Interyenes.
SPLENDID START IS MADE
tsy Associated Press

fBy Associated Press
Unofficial reports from Amsterdam
are to the effect that Vice Admiral Won
CapelIe, the German Minister Of Ma
rine. has resigned. Since his expose of
the mutiny on board German battle
ships at Wilheln,shnveu Won Capeue
las been violently attacked by the In
dependent Socialists and the Socialist
newspapers generally. ~
For the first time since he started
his series of attacks against the GER
man positions in Flanders, Field Mar
shall EaiG has had to cease an opera
tion before all the detectives were at
tained. IT was not the German guns,
however. that stopped he British. 1t
was more than usually heavy rain
fall which started during the battle
and turned the already swampy region
over which the men were supposed to
pass into a veritable quagmire, from
which they could not untrack them.
selves for n forward move.
Tho drive. as has been customary In
Haigs strategy. was started in the
early hours OF Friday morning ands
extended from near tho Houtholst wood
TO below the Ypres-Menin road. At
several points the British troops sue
cceded in gaining ground over fronts
ranging up to 1000 yards. but here the
rain intervened. and the lighting ceased
for the day. During the forward move
inent over the siX-mile front the Brit
ish captured in the aggregate about
600 prisoners.
PARTICULARLY BITTER .sl-s,a
AROUND PASsCHENDAELE
The struggle was particularly bitter
to tl:a north of PoeicapAlle ard around
Passche ndaele. In the latter region
tho Germans apparently have massed
their strongest array Of troops, hopeful
of being able 10 stay Fl further press
forward by the British toward tho
Ostend-Lille railway.
The Germans were expecting the, bait
tie for several hours prior to the sig
nal for the British to attack. They
laid down a heavy barraGe fire all
along the line, interspcrsing the rain
OF steel and explosive shells with
asphyxisting gas bombs.
Considerable artillery activity still
prevails between the French and tho
Germans along the Chcnlin-des- Danes,
In Champagne and on the Ypres front,
but no important infantry engagements
have taken place. Likewise in the
Austro- o-Italian theater and in Mace
donia, the big guns arc doing all the
work. except for accommodating and
outpost encounters in the latter regton:
Along the Pskofr road in the Riga
sector in the Russian front the Rus
slams again have heen forced to Give
ground to tho Ge"p;ans under a Heavy
artillery fire. Farther south however,
the Russians in countcrattacks have
rccaptured trenches which tho Germans
took from them Wednesday
AMsTERDAM SENDS REPORT s.
or cApIatI.E's RESIGNATION
AMsTERnANSiis aN SiissGS1,rS 0etoSer ,,refs isLv,c.sa.
miral Won Capelle. the German Minis
ter of Marine. has resigned, according
to the Frankfurter Zeitung
Vice-Admiral Eduard Won Capelle
was one OF the administrative direc-
tors In tho Min!s;r: or Marine before
the war, and had served as captain
at sea. In March. 1915 he succeeded
Admiral Won 'r!rpitx as Imperial Min
ister of the Navy Several times since
then Won Capele has appeared before
the ReichstaG with optimistic state
unrestricted submarine campaign, a..
late as August 20. 1917. defending the
u-boat policy az his predecessor and
himself at meeting, o. the ReichstaE
main committee. +,-,
Vice Admiral Won Capel!e announced
In the Reichstag last Wednesday that
plot had been discovered In the navy
10 paralyze the efficiency OF tho feet
and force the government to maka
peace. lie said that the guilty parties
lad received their just deserts. and at
tempted 20 link Socialists with the plot.
fhe Imperial German Chancellor. DR..
A!chacl!s, also spoke OF the e1:stencs
of a conspiracy in the navy, and as
serted that certain Deputies were In
volved in the revolt.
The Socialists and their newspapers
have attacked both the Chancellor and 4
the vice-admirai FOR thoir statements.
RUSSIANS RECArrURE
LOST TRENCHES
PETRoGRAD, October l2.-Bysssa
yesterday Russian troops
recaptured trenches lost WEDNESDAY
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