Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-20
Raiding Parties Enter Teuton
Positions and Inflict Heavy
Casualties on Garrisons, Isl
Report.
KAISER'S FORCES ARE
REPULSED BY RUSSIANS
Several Severe Attacks Are
Launched Against Petain's
ForceSi Are Beaten Off With
Severe Losses to AssaiIantS,

lsr MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtsr1
British and French in Flanders and
in the vicinity of Lens are engaged IN
consolidating positions won last week
from Crown Prince Rupprecht The
British near Ypres have made fur.
ther advance on a mile front to a
depth of about 500 yards and also in
the Somme region have renewed their
attacks with advantage. In the lat.
ter maneuver the British took posi-
tons near Ephey and inflicted heavy
losses on the Germans.
The Germans have been feeling out
the strength of the French lines in
the Vosges mountain region. where
after heavy bombardments they de-
livered attacks against the French
around Badonvillier and north of Gel
-Sur-Plane. Their efforts, however,
went for naught under the fire of the
French guns and rifles.
Crown Prince Fails Again.
On the Aisne front and In the ver-
dun sector attempts by the German
crown prince to break the French
lines met with failure
The airmen of the allies are work
ing havoc with the German fliers and
on German positions far behind the
lines. In fights in the air Saturday,
French airmen accounted for seven
teen German aircraft and the British
fliers seven which were completely
destroyed or forced to land inside the
Teutonic lines badly battered from
machine gun fire. Eight British ma
chimes failed to return to their base.
In aerial raids behind the lines al
lied machines have bombed numerous
towns, railway stations and canton
ments, the raids extending as far as
Selzaete, near the Dutch border, eigh-
teen miles from Ghent, which also re-
ceived a visitation.
American AiTnen Active.
American aviators belonging to the
Lafayette esquadrille took promi.
nent part in the French raids.
German eirmen also tried their
hand at slipping through the British
air patrol and bombing. In this they
were successful but the score was
against them in the end, for the ex-
plosives they loosed fell on a British
prisoner clearing station, killing ten
Germans and inflicting further
wounds on nine men of their army
who had already met with hard usage
at the hands of the British guns.
Russians Fighting Hard.
There has been a considerable stiff
fening of the front in Rumania and
also in Russia in the region of Wilma
South of Grozechti, southern Molda-
via, the Russians have made a stand
against attacks of the Teutonic allies
and repulsed them and in the Slanic
sector also have beaten off the invad-
ers.
In the Lake Marco district of the
Wilma front, German attacks broke
down under the Russian barrage fire.
The present week witnesses the
meeting in Berlin of the main COM
mittee of the German reichstag. 1t
is considered probable that at this ses-
proposal will be discussed and that
there will be frank debate on polit-
ical, military and economic questions.
Labor Unrest Occurs.
Meanwhile reports indicate re-
sumption Of the period of unrest
among the German workers. Several
hundred men in the Krupp plant at
Magdeburg have struck because Of the
arrest Of one of their leaders, while
the workmen in the Essen, Dusseldorf
and Rhine provinces are threatening
a walkout on account of shortage in
the potato ration.