Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-11
NEW HARD BLOWS I
STRUCK BY ALLIES
AT ANTAGONISTS
Rewarded With further
Gains in Crown Prince
Rupprecht's Line.
HEAVY ARTILLERY DUELS
RAGE ALL ALONG FRONT
Believed to Be Forerunner Of Re-
sumption of Big Entente r
Offensive.
HAIG's MEN WIN POSITIONS
Canadians. in Trenches at Doorstep
of Lens, Heavily Shclled ..s
by Germans.
HAIG's MEN WIN POSITIONS

Both the British and French armies
facing the Germans In Flanders have
again struck hard blows at their an.
taGonists. and have been rewarded with
further gains in the line of Crown
Prince Rupprecht OF Bavaria. While
the fighting has occurred only on iso.
lated sectors 1t seems evident that the
heavy artillery duels in progress all
along the front. from Nieuport to tho
Franco Belgian border are the forerun-
ncrs of a resumption of the big allied
offensive which the rain and the ac-
campaigning mire stopped almost at Its
inception more than a week ago.
Driving eastward from the sector Of
Ypres in the early dawn of Friday.
Field Marshal Haig's men took for
their own all the German first-line posi-
tions east OF Hooge between Frezen-
berg and the Ypres -Menin road. includ-
ing the village of Westhoek. and held
them in their entirety Notwithstanding
the usual counterattacks launched by
the Germans under an extremely heavy
barraEe fire. -
To the north. near Bixschoote and
LanCgemarck. the French troops havo
captured several farms held by the Ger
mans. and also have taken number
Of machine gurs from them. While
these gains are characterized as
slight. they nevertheless are another
forward step eastward toward the
Ostcnd-Lille railroad, toward which the
British drive from Hooge also Is
pointed. ,- ~. = /. :. 0s.se
The Canadians. lying In their trenches
at-the doorstep OF Lens. and .theBritish'
forces holding trenches south OF tho
famous Nimy ridge are coming In for
intensive shellinE from the Germans.
Ll:RMANS DELIVER y
SURPRISE ATTACK
On the long eGlected front at st,
Quentin. the Germans have delivered
surprise attack of considerable proper
tions, but were unsuccessful in gaining
ground anywhere except at several
weak points in the center of the French
line. Otherwise the fire OF General
l'etains men put down the sally, in
1ictinG considerable casualties on the
Germans.
Likewise along the Alsne front the
Germans have delivered onslaughts
n Eainst the French. but here also they
met with the same result that has
MAJ ked the previous attempts Of the
German Crown Prince to pierce the
he Germans managed to make their
way into isolated trenches. but they
net death later in hand-to hand fight
ii.g were captured.
Aside from the front in France, lit
tie lighting OF moment is taking place
| ,Acept in Cialicia, Bukowina and South
crn Moldavia. In all these sectors tho
Germans and Austro Hungarians are
declared by the Berlin War Office to
he continuing their gains. Southeast
of Czernowitz, the capital of Buko-
wilma. the Germans have penetrated the
Russian frontier positions. and further
south. fighting with their allies. they
have taken height positions between
the Trotus and Putna Valleys. and in
Southern Mold,via. in the region of
80: shani. have thrown their forces
.-"rNss the Suchitza River on a wide
| front.