The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-04
British and French Alternate In
Attacks and Commandments
and Add Gains To Ground
From Which Huns Are Driven
WEATHER PREVENTS ANY
~ AID FROM AERoPLANES
Five Thousand Prisoners Are
Taken and Sent To the Rear
Among Whom Are Members Of
the Boosted Fighting Bavarians
Associated Press By q. s. Naval Com.
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T oNDoN, August z - Despite
- heavy rains, which have
made the low ground over which
the great battle in Flanders Is be-
ing fought deep in mud and which
prevent the airmen of either side
from rendering any assistance,
the British and French are hourly
adding to their gains and increas-
ing the number of prisoners. Up
until yesterday afternoon, five
thousand Germans, including
members Of the famous Bavarian
divisions, have been sent to the
rear as captiyes. p. ..
The dWindling man-poWer Of
Germany is demonstrated in the
prisoners taken and amongst the
dead left on the field by the re-
treating Teutons. Amongst these
are hundreds Of schooIboys, some
not more than fifteen and sixteen
years old. -- ...s .t,.
REAR POSITIONS BoMBARDED
Yesterday afternoon, following
the repulse of numerous German
counters, the Allies resumed their
bombardment Of the German rear
positions and continued their
reciprocal drives, French and Bri-
fish advancing alternately, the
artillery of one covering the ad-
Vances of the other while the
desperate attempts of the Ger
mans to keep reinforcing the
most threatened positions only
gave the Allies the opportunities
they sought of striking at the
weakened sections. Gains of i'm
portance were made yesterday
on the east bank of the User
canal.
The morning of yesterday was mark
ed by desperate effort on the part of
the Germans to recover the ground
lost when the British and French sur
ged forward ON Monday, the counter at.
tacks taking place all along the front
from Baskerville, five miles north of
Warneton, on the Belgian border, to
north of the User canal, west of Dix
nude, a distance of more than fifteen
miles. In these attacks, the Germans
lost heavily and were consistently re-
pulsed, except along the Roulers-Y pres
railroad, where the French were forced
to abandon their furthest advance
posts.
! The general Entente offensive was
along curved front, from Basseville
to Steenstraete, of which the town of
Ypres is, roughly speaking, the CEN
ter. At the extreme left, before Steen-
straete, the advance reached depth of
two miles. just before Ypres, along
the YpTes- Roulers railroad, the advance
reached within mile of Zonnebecke, a
portion of the village of Westhoek be.
ing occupied To the north of this, the
village of st. Julien was taken.
On the User the French had had
| equally hard problems to solve, and
have had remarkable success.
An instance Of the intense pounding
to which the German lines were sub.
jected is related by prisoners, who tell
of a German battery which lost its
entire crew nine times, and had the
guns replaced five times
English troops bore the brunt of
the fighting but were ably supported
by some Welsh Scottish and Austria
liam regiments.
Berlin yesterday admitted reverses
in Flanders, the Official reports issued
by the war office stating that CATER
fortnight of artillery preparation, the
enemy has penetrated the defensive
! zone in Flanders -