Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-08-16
DRIVEN FROM POSITIONS THEY
HAD PREVIOUSLY CAPTURED
THE GERMANS ALSO LOSE
GROUND NEAR FAYET.
SIX GERMAN ASSAULTS
on BRITISH ARE FAILURES
Army Of Crown Prince in Flanders
Suffers Further Losses-Canadians
Come in For Heavy Smelling
BY Enemy-Austrians Are
Gaining on Russians.

Paris, Aug. 13.-North Of st. Quen.
lin French troops have made impor.
tant progress in the region of Fayet,
says the official statement given out
by the French war department. The
French elected the Germans from a
large part of the terrain which they
had captured on the night of August
$40.
Six German Attacks Fail.
London, Aug. 12-Six German as.
saults were made on the British posi-
tions to the east of Ypres during the
night, according to the British official
statement. They all broke down after
fierce fighting.
Field Marshal Haig reported the
British maintained their positions to
the east of Ypres and gained ground
near the Ypres-Menin road.
Gain on Teuton Lines.
Both the British and French armies
in Flanders have again struck hard
blows at the Germans and made fur.
Their gains in the line of Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria. While the fight
Ing has occurred only on isolated Sec
tors, 1t appears that the heavy artil-
lery duels all along the front are the
forerunners of a resumption of the big
allied offensive which the rain STONED
almost at its inception more than a
week ago.
Driving eastward from the sector of
Ypres, the British took all the German
first line positions east of HODGE, on
nine-mile front, between Frezenburg
and the Ypres-Menin road. and held
them in their entirety despite the
usual counter-attacks launched by the
Germans under an extremely heavy
barrage fire.
French Capture Farms.
To the north near Bixschoote and
Langwarck, French troops have cap.
tured several farms held by the Ger
mans and also have captured number
of machine guns, These gains are an.
other forward step toward the Ostend-
Lille railroad.
The Canadians. in their trenches at
the doorstep of Lens and the British
forces holding trenches south of Vimy
ridge are coming in for intensive shell.
ing from the Germans. On the long
neglected front near st. Quentin the
Germans have delivered a surprise at
tack Of considerable proportions, but
were unsuccessful except at some weak
points in the center of the French line.
The Germans suffered heavy casualties
in these attacks.
Likewise along the Aisne front the
Germans have delivered onslaughts
against the French, but here also they
met with defeat.
Russians Lose Positions.
Aside from the front in France little
fighting of moment is taking place ex-
cept in Galicia, Bukowina and south
ern Moldavia. In all these sectors the
Germans and Austro-Hungarians are
declared by Berlin to be continuing
their gains. Southeast of Czernowitz
the Germans have penetrated the Rus
sian frontier positions and further
south with their allies they have
taken height positions between the
Trotus and Putna valleys, and in south.
ern Moldavia, in the region of Fox
shani. they have thrown their forces
across the Suchina river on wide
front.
Allied warships have been lombard
Ing the Turkish batteries along the
coast OF Asia Minor, according to a
dispatch from Athens.