The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-21
German Infantry Does Not Follow
Up-British Barrage Describ-
ed As Having Been Perfect
ton In Modern Artillery Attack
ASSOCIATED Press BY q. 9. Naval Com
j, munication Service) H..

defensive, have suffered compare
lively lightly in their continued
victories Of Thursday and Friday.
Despite German claims of a reoc-
cupation Of Longemarck, not a
foot of the ground captured and
consolidated by the British has
oeen given up, even in the face
Of a series of most determined at
tacks. r....l&' '".'
HUN ATTACKS MELT AWAY
On Wednesday night the Ger
mans in Lens made three deSper-
lte efforts to shake loose the hold
the-C Canadians have on the Threats
Of the defending garrison, in one
IF their drives succeeding in Sc
curing a temporary foothold in
che outpost line, from which the
Canadians ousted them within
thirty minutes. The first attack,
following a Smelling of the Cana
dian lines, proved complete fail
ure, the gray ranks Of the Prus-
sian Guard, troops picked for the
onslaught, being torn by the Bri-
fish shells and sprayed by the
machine guns before they had adj
vanced a hundred yards from
their own trenches. The attack
melted away before the British
fire, the survivors falling back in
a rout. - A..
At nine O'Clock a second German eff
fort was made and this time the Ca
madam Outposts were forced to fall
back temporarily, until rcinforcements
cleared the lines again and smashed
the attackers. In this advance, In
which the Germans surged forward in
great force, their losses were tremend-
nus. The third attack was made under
over of a heavy harmge, but the at.
aekers never reached the Canadian
ines.
On other parts of the British front
o the north, there was heavy artil.
cry fighting, in the case of the Ger
mans attaining the proportions of
1arrage, indicating an infantry attack.
The British waited for these, but in no
Instance did they materialiZe
Heavy Smelling of the new British
ines at Westhoek, on the Ypres-
Roulers road, and at Frezenberg, q
hort distance to the north, was kept
up for twenty.four hours, dying away
without any effort on the infantry TO
follow up the attack. f.. ~.
Artillery Does Perfect Work .,s
One of the British infantry officers
describing the British barrage that OPP
ened the advance on Thursday to
LOngemarek and beyond, said ;"HI have
seen much modern artillery work dur.
'ng the past two years, but never have
even dreamed Of such perfection as
we achieved on Thursday. From the
jumping off hour our batteries dropped
I solid curtain of steel before us
which advanced mechanically, with the
precision Of clock.work. The explos.
ions OF the thousands and thousands Of
shells in this demoniacal exhibition
were deafening, so close to the advanc
ing line were we able to keep.
straight over Longemarck the
5arr"ee advanced with our infantry
trailing it, hopping up the German sur
Wivors." ...
Yesterday the French aud British
spent in consolidating their gains, the
work proceeding satisfactorily.
Twice has Berlin officially announced
that ,Longemarck aud the positions be-
fore it have been recaptured and are
firmly reestablished in German hands.
Last night, British headquarters had
to officially contradict these reports