The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1917-08-02
GAINS FROM FIRST DAY
OF PUSH CONSOLIDATE
General Advance Is Over Two Miles Deep.---
The Teuton U-Boat Bases On Belgian
Coast Menaced
GREATEST BATTLE.
OF WAR Is UNDER WAY, WITH
PROBABILITY IL WILL LAST FOR
WEEks-RAIN HAMPERS OPERA
TIoN6.
{ Associated Press Review

Associated Press Review.
With a wide stretch of territory anl
more than $500 prisoners in theil
hands as the result of the first day :
llRhtIng in their new Offensive, thu
BritlSh and French troops in Flanders
spent last night consolidating thcil
gains and repulsing the inevitable Ger
man counter attack
The new line, which along the great
or part of its stretch is from two miles
10 two and one half miles in advance
OF the old. and includes ten captured
towns within its limits, has been firmly
held along the entire front The CON
solida,ion process being carried out
under a torrcntial rain. which is ham
pering further operations
a push much further eastward along
the present line nf advance will lie
found TO shake the security of the
German coast line and seriously men
ace the German submarine bases along
the Belgian coast. The desperation of
the German resistance, now manifest
ing itself in furious counter attacks,
hears witness 10 the Importance the
German high command attaches 10 re
tention OF the present front.
This front has been shown To he not
the rigid one the 'Tcutonic claims have
made out BADLY bent by Yesterdays $
attack The immediate future is likely
So show whether il can be strained to
the breaking point.
Advices from the Allied capltat,,'
point to the expectation of the battle
opcncd yesterday continuing for weeks
if not months. The French troops cNi-
IDENTIFY We're not brought up to the
Belgian front away from their former
field of operation for any h"ief effort at
arms.
Is Wars Greatest Battle.
Paris, France. Aug. i.-Thr hattl"
In Flanders. which began with tlr
it is believed will I've lhc biggest of the
war and Will last tor weeks and
months. The results already achieved
lead military observers To believe il is
not too much la hope That tn" ''er.
mans may soon he cleared out Of
French and Belgian Flanders.
Gains are Consolidated.
Paris, France, Aug i.-Aftcr the
magnificent success of the French and
British in Belgium yesterday the En-
tcnte troops in torrential rain storm
consolidated the positions which they
had captured, htc war office announc-
cd today.
After several days of artillery pre-
Jaration. the Germans this morning al
lacked the positions on the left bank
of the Meuse river in the Ncrdun reg
ion which The French had captured
from them on July H. The French of
fetal statement says the Germans We're
only able to reach certain advanced Hle
ments of the French, first line. where
they We're stopped
0rmans Beaten Back.
London. England. Aug. i--Cierman
counter attacks yesterday afternoon
and last night against THE ncw British
positions at LaBassc Nille and north
OF tho N'pres Confines canal in belgium
were rcpuscd, the war office lunounc
cd today.
Another German counter attack fur
ihcr north in the ncishborhood of the
Tprcs- -Roulercs railway was crushed
by the British artillery Heavy rain lisa