American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1917-06-26
HAIc RrwINNINc BELGIAN son.


b British advances in Flanders. "fht
Kaiser very recent euugrafulatlon ~
Hfndonhurg and 20 his people ou The
nnal collapse OF the British offensive
might sell be- found. % ia observed hl
Che NoW York Evening Post. The
German hcld marahai'a home rcputa.
Nou Tor military omuiscieucc" must
have been sadly shattered. the Chicu-
~ Herald thinks. by the million pounds
OF high explosives which blew Off the
top 81 Messincs ridge with a roar heard
by the listening British premier 1880
miles away. Well. remarks the
Brooklyn Eagle. with a touch of Yam
kee hum0r. THE kaiser having an
nounced that the British offensive was
over. they conaiderataiy started one
under"
Al fpres the thin line OF the origi
nal British army checked The German
advances Ia November. 1914 az Ypres
tn April. 1915, the nrst German gas
attack was withatood at Npros on
June Z, 1917. the British army. mo- long
ar contemplate or "ilitle. answer
ed the vain boast" OF the German
headers by what the Dallas News
speaks OF as the miEhrcsf single ef-
fou made since the war began, and
an effort which emphasizes the aus
perioriiy Of the allies in the produc
zion Of engines and explosives of war 3
While the news of thia third battle
al lpres came a a surprise 10 the
American public. the British hleh com
uand bad long been preparing for a..
and the Germans had been looking FOR
a. Like Nimy ridge. taken hy tn
Canadian troops Ia the Arraa battle.
Aeasines ridge was an important Ger
man post Of observation above the
British lines II formed the kcy posi-
Hon ~ the German salient threatenius
fprea aud guarding Lille II ls the
last rise Of ground ln that section west
of he low plains OF Flanders. Ger
anan recognition OF Us importance had
made i a veritable inland Gibraltar
A labyrinth OF trenches. dugouts and
tuunels. re-enf0rced with steel and
concrete and surrounded by barbed
wire. contained cannO OF an callbers
and machine guns skilfully placed and
hidden Farm houseH and woods we're
made the fullest use OF. and the whole
was manned by picked troops Every
thing was guarded against. as one
koud0n correspondent notes. but
mines. and for nearly tNo years Brit
Ssh engineers had been al work under
ground The preparation and its re-
suit are nus described by q writer
IN the Paris Journal. quoted ln the
New York Herald.
Nearly q year ago two hundred
special miners we're brought from rhe
New castle and Cardiff GOAL minos
They took six months 10 bore "a mile
and "a quarter sap extending To- Mes
sines ridge Then they dug ninetoen
mime pockets under sixteen OF the most
formidable concrete enemy fortre4ses
"A quadraneular Well like am Gle
vntor cage was then Installed boz each
and niied with terrible explosives.
aach charge being twenty-five tons
An electric system which was deHtln
cd 20 convey the fatal spark was com
pictcd by the end OF winter. Since
January the German irst line troops
have lived over this hidden hell
The result OF these long prepare
ti0ns aaa seen at dawn on june
THE conclusion of mother earth.
vast as a supernatural cataclysm de
m0iiahed tho hill. 0hliirfat0d marshes.
and gave birth DO green and rust col
orod sheets OFF water whore they had
been
Changed as DC hy magic has been
mot ault tnr hIstor, OF the last two
years. hut the military geography OF
ihe region Cubic ua..s OF earth
were buried nirIouail Riolt aud ZEN
heavily. crushing tN, trenches With
their forts and earriaon-
Narh minr.rrairr eharnel
house
And $3.50. after h-Omhnrim,ul from
n0ays san .ati tl fatc been go prr
r.at mafg Uumprlls tnau at the Arras
hatfIef 40 aua IL Nprrs that tho Ger
man. introduced tl. English DO the
.aa hann. SIS tNeir turn tni. month";
af.u. 4. Nrr.s. fne urIl.h hai d ueN
h.rr.- fo .ho. tHt Germans. iu thU
shape So uhat ttt Wrt|eb soldier calls
.. ann. Thr n.a urauar f. DO
errn.H .ht.u IariDn FImps D8"rr.spou
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