The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-03
ALLIES PIERCE
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Positions Held Since 1914 Rush
Wrested from TeutOnS

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BATTLE is F!ERCEST OF WAR
Barrage Ere Without Precedent in In
tensity Riddles German Works.
Fighting Continues, as German
Counter Attacks Are Beaten Off.
Many Prisoners Taken-AIIies Push
On.
troops attacked on twenty-mile
front Monday, following the most ter
rife artillery fire ever reported, and
captured the first three lines Of Ger
man trenches between the River Lys
and Boesinghe.
Ten villages and more than $500
prisoners were taken.
Losses on the allied side were re-
ported to be very light while the Ger
man losses were described as extreme
ly heavy.
Late reports said the Germans had
begun a counter attack at the point
where the French and British forces
join
PARIS-Late Tuesday it was report
ed chat the Germans were counter at
lacking at the point of junction of the
French and British forces.
Six Bavarian divisions were with
drawn and replaced as they were de.
moraliZed by the inferno of fire. At
one point the British charged through
their own barrage fire to prevent the
escape of fleeing Germans.
PARIS = The Entente forces which
launched their offensive have advan-
ced well beyond the shell-shattered
front-line German trenches. In many
places they have reached the second
line defenses on a twenty-mile front of
attack.
The British and French troops went
into battle under cover of what per-
haps was the greatest barrage fire
ever seen during the war.
The Entente artillery is moving for
ward and the whole situation is salts
factory in every particular.
Three lines of German trenches
were captured by the British forces.
Most of the points stormed were be-.
tween Boesinghe and Warneton.
French and English Unite.
A vast British force, augmented by
French troops at dawn launched
against the army of Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria, between Dix
nude on the north and Gapaard, near
Warneton, on the south, terrific Of
fensive which, according to the early
reports, had carried the onrushing al
lies well beyond the shell-shattered
front line trenches of the Germans
throughout this approximately twenty
mile front, and in many places had
reached the second line defenses.
Both the French and British had
achieved all the first detectives and
the artillery was moving forward with
schedule precision and the whole stu
alton was satisfactory in every par
ticular.
In numerous places the Entente al
lies encountered strong resistance and
counter attacks from the desperate
Teutons.
Between Dixmude and Boesinghe
the attacking forces are reported to
have secured the two first lines of the
German trenches after having fought
over the most difficult terrain imagin-
able due to marshes and inundated
areas with which the section is block
ed
The German front line about the
Ypres salient which had been held I'm.
questioned by the enemy since the
early days of the war offered little re-
sistance to the British advance, but
beyond these trenches the Germans
made firm stand in an 1endeavor to
stem the onslaught.
British Retake La Basseville.
The British again captured La Bas-
seville, on the Franco-Belgian frontier,
which few days age they had occu-
pied and then relinquished. The Ger
mans made a heavy counter attack
here in an attempt to regain the posi-
ton, but the British flung them off and
began consolidating the ground won.
Many prisoners already are finding
their way back of the allied lines.
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