Arizona republican., 1917-10-10
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 The big fight is on again in Flanders
 and the Germans are being hammered
 hard. Field Marshal Haig is battering
 away on the sector east and northeast
 of Ypres, while French troops have
 joined with the British left wing to
 the south of DiXmude in an effort to
 bring that section of the line even with
 the sharp wedge that has been driven
 into the German front by Haig east
 of Broodseinde.
 Launching their attacks simul
 taneously Tuesday morning, both arm
 ies had made considerable gains be- fore nightfall, in addition to intlicting heavy casualties on the Germans and taking many prisoners. Prior to the announcement of the commencement of the attack there had been no intima- ton that the F'renchmen were ready for an advance. In fact it had been rather expected that even the British
 commander in chief would delay talk ing the aggressive again for several days owing to the terrible condition of the ground he is in quest of-a yer itable marsh owing to the heavy rains of Sunday and Monday.
 With apparent ease the Frenchmen
  Jansbeek rivers and captured the vil- ,ages of St. Jean de Mangelar and veldhoek, together with numerous blockhouses and took prisoner several hundred Germans me French ad- vance was over front of more than d mile and they penetrated the German line to q depth of one and a quarter
 miles.
 Haigs principle offensive centered on the positions of the Passchendaee- Gheluvelt ridge still held by the Ger
 mans being directed eastward from Peolcapelle which was captured and n -rtheastward from Broodseinde to-
 ward Passchendaele the ultimate ob-
 jective still being iae Ostend-Lille road Taken as a whole, the joint op- eration makes more apparent the croWning desire of the allies in this region-the forcing pack of tkc Ger
 mans to points where their excavation
 of Ostend and Zee6rugge, naval and submarine bases on the North sea, will
 become necessary.
 At several points Haig's advance was
 sharply contested by the Germans
 particularly north of Broodseinde, the nearest approach to the railroad line
 and near the Polderhoek chateau No- where, however. were the Germans able to stop the adN-.;ice, except near the Polderhoek chateau where the ter riffic fire of their machine guns mo- mentarily forced the British to give ground. Later the attacking troops re- aligned themselves and the success tui push went on again.
 Aside from Flanders the operations in all the various theaters of War are of minor character Along the Aisne and Champagne front and on the left bank Of the Mouse in the Nerdun sec tor intensive artillery duels are still in progress between the French and the Germans. In Champagne the French have carried out a successful raid near the Butte of Tahure and taken prisoners.
 There is still considerable infantry and artillery activity between the Russians and Germans in the Riga sector on the Russian front but neither side has made any attempt to advance. Reciprocal bombardments are in pro- gress between the Italians and Aus trians on the Austro- italian front and between the entente forces and the Teutonic allies in Macedonia.
 Another Austro- German peace offer which is to be based on the principles of no territorial aggrandizement. the surrender of Belgian and French ter ritory the renunciation Cf territorial acquisitions for money payments and no indemnity by either side is soon to be put forward. according to a prom . inent Berlin newspaper.