Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-19
Grown Prince Rupprecht Loses Many Men in Series
 of Vain Assaults.
FRENCH AGAIN
 RECORD ADVANCE
Berlin Officially Admits the Loss of Langmarck, After Furious Fighting. Archduke Joseph Gains Posi-
 lions on Eastern Front.
Associated Press Summary =


 Grown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria continues to hurl counter attacks against the new positions captured by the Canadians in their recent offen- sive in the region of Lens.
 Saturday morning the Germans forced their way into the Canadian trenches northwest of the French mining center, but after furious hand to hand fighting they were elected. leaving considerable number of dead.
 On the Belgian front, from the North sea to the Ypres Sector, where the British and French, in their of- fensive begun in the middle of the week, took 1,S00 prisoners and "A guns, the French have pushed for. ward, capturing strong German point east of the Steenbeke river.
 The British have organized their newly conquered terrain and the ar tillery bombardments on this front again has assured degree of drum fire intensity presaging another Vii ciols blow at the German line.
 The Berlin war office now admits the loss, after severe fighting, of the village of Langmarck, northeast of Ypres, and says the German troops have occupied lines in front of the positions conquered by. the British. On the river Aisne front. the Ger man crown prince directed number of attacks against the French, notably in the vicinity of Froidmonc farm, but all were repulsed.
 Preparations for German assault in the massiges sector of the Cham pagne region were broken up by French fire.
 On the Verdun front, spirited French attack swept over the Ger man positions in Caurrieres wood, enabling the French to retake all of the trenches which had been wrested from them by the Germans on August 16 and IT,
 Aviators of all belligerents on tile western front were particularly act i've as the week closed. French avi- ators shot down seven German ma chimes and forced eight others to land in badly damaged condition. On the night of August 171S French aerial squadrons dropped If tons of explosive on German aviation grounds.
 British airmen destroyed 23 Teuton airplanes and forced 13 others to land. Eleven British planes and two French machines did not return. The Germans claim to have account ed for 26 entente planes. On the eastern front, military activ- lty was confined to the Rumanian front. South of Grozechei, in south western Moldavia. forces of Arch duke Joseph of Austria attacked the Russo-ltumanian troops, taking more than 1,6O0 prisoners.
 In the last month, according to Ger man headquarters, the Austro-Ger- mans in Galicia, Bukowina, and Ru- mania, captured 42,000 officers and men, 257 guns, 54S machine guns, 5O,-
 ooo rifles and large quantity of other war material
 recrudescense of fighting has
 broken out on the Caucasian front
 Doth the Russians and Turks taking
 the offensive in sectors 300 miles apart. The Russians in the region ol kharput, west of Lake Van, at lacking for the first time since the
 revolution, on that front, occupied
 series of Turkish villages.
 further west the Turks attacked
 the Russians at Banek, in the Mosel
 region, and forced the defenders to
 retire.
 British light naval forces on Au
 gust l6 engaged a German destroyer
 III the North Sea. The TeutOn war
 shlp' though repeatedly hit, escaped
 through the mine field in a mist
 nater the warship attacked several
 1efman mine sweepers and Severely
 damaged two of them.
 A German account of the maya
 .lash says the English vessel with.
 urew with all possible haste, under