The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-02
ALLIES PIERCE
FOES Sd Line
Positions Held Since 1914 Rush
Krested from Teutons
BATTLE is FIERCEST OF WAR

Barrage Ere Without Precedent in In
tensity Riddles German Works.
Fighting Continues, as German
Counter Attacks Are Beaten off.
Many Prisoners Taken---AIlies Push
On.
London, Aug British and French
troops attacked on a twenty-mile
II mt 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. I.
British Front in France and Belgium.
Aug. Late Tuesday it was report
ed thai 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 ire to prevent the
escape of fleeing Germans.
The British Front in France, Aug.
1.-The Entente allied 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 twenty-mile front Of
attack.
tt British and French troops went
into attic 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
Warn on, on the south, terrific Of
fensive which, according to the early
reports, had carried the onrushing al
lies well beyond the sheIl-shattered
front line trenches of the Germans
throughout this approximately twenty
mile front, and in many places had
Preached 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 encou1 sered 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 IN
questioned by the enemy since Z
early days of the war offered little re.
sistance to the British advance, but
beyond these trenches the Germans
made firm stand in an endeavor to
stem the onslaught.
| British Retake La BasseviIIe.
The British again captured La Baa
seville, on the Franco-Belgian frontier,
which few days ago they had occu-
pied and then relinquished The Ger
mans made 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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