Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-03
British Forces Retake Positions
Recovered From Them by
Furious TeutoniC Counter
attacks,
BERLlN'S CLAIMS NOT
SUSTAINED BY FACTS
Air Superiority Of Allies Now
Unquestioned, but Weather
Conditions Hamper Artillery.
Fire.
tsr MORNING Ioosa.l SPECIAL ,s.sso w,.si

While the rain ana the morass have
served to hold the entente allied
forces in leash preventing a resump-
tion of the great offensive of Tuesday.
they have not been effective in keep.
ing the Germans from throwing coun-
ter-attacks with large forces Of men
against several newly won sectors of
the front held by the British and
French troops nor in bringing about
cessation of the violent artillery
duel along the entire line.
Crown Prince Rupprecht evidently
considers the British gain northeast
of Ypres the most important made in
Tuesdays battle, for upon this terri
tory he has concentrated the strongest
of his counter r-offensive operations in
an attempt to regain the lost ground.
His efforts, however, have gone for
naught, the British artillery and in
fantry fire raking the advancing
forces merclessly putting an end to
the attacks and adding materially to
the already heavy casualties the Ger
mans have suffered.
Sunshine Badly Needed
1t is possible that at least a day OF
warm sunshine will be necessary to
dissipate the quagmire so that the big
allied guns may be re-aligned and
to permit the armen to relocate the
positions the enemy is holding,
Although th,x Teutonic allies are
still advancing against the Russians
IN east Galicia, Bukowina and along
the Moldavian frontier, the allied of
fensive on the western front appar-
emily is on the nerves of the German
emperor.
1t is assumed that a war council of
the high military and naval leaders in
Germany, called by Emperor William,
to meet in Brussels, had as its obiec-
tive an analytical survey of the Of
fensive, which, if 1t is carried out as
planned by the allies, would prove A
menace to the German holdings in
Belgium, and especially along the
coast.
High Conference Held.
Wednesday was the date set for the
conference, which was to have been
attended by Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg, chief of the imperial gen.
eral staff; Grown Prince Rupprecht Of
Bavaria, in command in Flanders;
the German crown prince and others.
including Vice Admiral Won Capelle,
minister of the navy, whose naval
bases on the North sea would be af-
fected by a success TO the entente al
lied arms. As yet, however, nothing
has come through to indicate the
trend of the discussion.
The situation of the Russians on the
eastern front grows increasingly acute,
the Russians steadily falling back
everywhere so far have the opera
ton of the Teutonc allies been ad-
wanced in Bukowina that seemingly
the little Austrian crown land soon
again will be returned to the Austri-
ans. Numerous additional towns and
vantage points along the front have
been &C ptured by the Teutons Ber-
lin asserts that from the Pruth to the
eastern foothills of the Kelemen
mountains, distance of approximate
liz 100 miles, the Russians are stead
lily giving ground.
Riga Seriously Menaced.
Advices reaching Petrograd from
the front are to the effect that a ret
rograde movement by the Russians
has been carried out fifteen miles
southeast of Riga, the important Rus
sian port and naval base on the
Baltic. Here the Germans have oe-
cupied the Ukskull bridgehead, which
the Russians previously had evacu-
a tod