The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-11-06
HUNS GIVE UP
LAND SOAKED.
WITH GORE OF
THEIR ARMIES
GUNS OF FRENCH ARE
TWO MILES FROM LA0N
chemin des Danes Plateau
Launched Attacks In This Sec
tor Day After Day For Weeks
andWasted Thousands Of Lives

DARIS. November 4 ~ (Asso-
i cited Press) French sue
cesses along the Aisne during the
past ten days have been so inn
portant that the Germans have
abandoned all further effort to
hold their lines along the famous
Chemin des Danes plateau and
have retired to new line north
of the Ailette River. In this re-
treat, some forty square miles
more of France has been regain
ed from the invaders, an area
soaked with German blood and
the graveyard OF tens OF thou
sands OF the picked troops OF the
Fatherland.
The German retreat was along
a front thirteen miles wide, their
new line being a. crescent, the
center Of which protects Laon
and the ends II which rest upon
the old line at Anizy, on the west
and Neufchatel, on the east. The
grec'est depth Of the ground
abandoned is about six miles.
SCENE OF BLOODY FIGHTS
The plateau Of the Chemin des
DANES has been the Scene Of
some of The bloodiest defeats the
Germans have experienced in the
war, their aggregate losses along
this sector being comparable to
those inflicted upon them in the
attempt to capture Nerdun. Day
after day the Grown Prince
drove his shock troops against
the French entertainments and
day after day they were moved
down and thrown back. During
the summer and fall, at least hf-
ty German assaults were made
upon the French sheltered along
the commanding heights of the
lateau, many of them in great
~
Srce. On a few occasions the
ench front trenches were TAX
caF but never once did the Ger
mans hold their gains, counters
driving the few survivors out.
French Force the Pace .l.,..s
Two weeks ago the French advanced
to the assault, their whirlwind attack
throwing the Germans into demoralized
confusion. They fell back along the
western edge of the plateau, losing a
total of four hundred and twenty guns,
nearly eight hundred machine guns and
thousands of prisoners This defeat
rendered untenable their whole position
south of the Ailette, which they have
now abandoned. . @.@
The Official dispatches from Berlin
announce the retirement but advance
/ no explanation. The retreat was ef'
feeted, says Berlin, without interior.
enee from the French.
The Belgian government yesterday
announced from the temporary capital
at Hayre that evidences are multiply.
ing Of the German intention TO effect
a general retreat in Belgium before
winter sets in. The Germans, accord
ing to reliable information which has
reached Havre, are systematically loot.
ing the sections Of Belgium still under
their control west of the line of the
6cheldt, lismantling industrial plants
and shipping all removable machinery
into Germany.
At one industrial center, seven of the
eleven rolling mills have been entirely
removed, while the others are being
wrecked and rendered useless. Every,
thing else Of value left in the country
about TO be abandoned is being taken,
metal of all kinds being swept up and
transported. .- ,. !. w
In the Holy Land
There was comparatively little fight.
ing on any European front yesterday.
Another British victory is reported from
Palestine, however, the British having
frightened their grip upon the important
city of CASA, near Jerusalem. Here
the British advanced more than two
miles, driving back the Turks and their
German leaders. y
Petrograd reports more disIoyalty
along the eastern line, the Russians
on the Wilma front having commenced
to fraternize with their German foes.