Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-05

Inc herman losses III yCSlSIudy D
encounter were terrific. Thousands
of men we're slain or wounded when
caught in the merciless barrage fire
of the British heavy guns, as the Bo-
ches sought to wrest the ground lost,
from its defenders. ~
Forming for mass attacks the Ger
mans were sundered by the British
guns almost before they got started.
Battalion after battalion OF gray-coat-
ed infantrymen were torn to pieces
and blown into the air by the high
power shells of the British "grannies."
Included in the massacre were five
divisions Of the famous Prussian
guards, who are the kaiser's Pets.
All day long yesterday and continu-
ing far into the night a stream of
German prisoners filed away to the
rear of the British lines. The count
last night revealed 5000 taken pris-
aners and the number was swelled by
the host of new arrivals.
The consensus of opinion of the
British staff following a study Of the
German defense of Yesterday as com.
pared with it's slackening today Is
that it IS very weak. Whether it has
been shattered remains to be seen.
With the ranks of the infantry de-
cimated time and time again It is
believed it will take the Crown Prfn-
ce's army weeks to recover from the
shock. Not a semblance Of an attack
was delivered today and the British
troops were unmolested in their work
Of making good their hold on newly
won positions.
In contrast to the weakened often
sive power of the Germans was the
brilliant, energetic and undaunted ad.
vance of the British. The whole army
worked like a smoothly organized
steam roller that crushed the flower
of German resistance beneath its pom
derous weight. Brilliant indeed was
the record made by the Anzacs yes.
terday who were mainly responsible
for the advance OF one and one-half
miles, driving a new wedge into the
German ranks. ,.
2 The greatest advance was made by
those troops now holding the cross
roads of Broodseynde, a hamlet on
the Ypres-Roulers road. The position
now occupied east of these crossroads
forms the tip of the British wedge,
the apex of a shallow V, one foot of
which rests just south of Dixmude and
the other upon Armentieres. Brood
seynde is about half way between
Ypres and the main British objective,
the great railroad junction at ,Roulers
1t Is five miles west of line drawn
north and south through Iangemarck.
which was the British objective in the
first advance last mnnth IN this Flem-
ish theater.
The ridge or Gravenstafei, which
fell into British hands in Yesterdays
battle, is to the north and west OF
Broodseynde. while the Gheluvelt
ridge is to the south and west. Be-
tween these ridges and the detectives
of Roulers and Menin and the main
line of the Ostend-Lille railroad is
gradually down-sloping plain, marked
by only one emilence, an isolated hin
of sixty meters high at 3Ioorsiede. a
mile east OF Broodseynde and probably
the objective of the next advance.
LONDON, England, Oct. 5.-The ex-
hausted troops of Prince Rupprecht
made no counter attacks today on
the new positions held by Sir Doug
las Haig east of Ypres, although the
Hun artillery was particularly active
during the night hours.
The British are hard at work con.
solidatirg their new positions.
PARIS, France, Oct. 5.-SeyeraI |
powerful attacks on French positions |
in the Champagne line of the west. |
ern battlefront we're today repufsed |
by the poilus, and nowhere did the |
Huns reach their objective. Violent /
duels are reported in pro-
sress along the Mouse and at Yer
dun. s~a~ .@.-.
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