Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-21
French Flyers Battle Brilliant
ly-British Destroy 3
TeutOn Machines.
HAIG GAINS A MILE FRONT
Cuts 500 Yards Into German
Holdings and Captures
Fortified Farms.

Although for the most part the
British and French forces in Flanders
and in the vicinity of Lens are en-
gagged in consolidating positions won
last week from Crown Prince Rup-
precht, the British near Ypres have
made a further advance on a mile
front to a depth Of about 500 yards and
also in the Somme region have re-
newed their attacks with advantage.
The Germans have been feeling
out the. strength of the French lines
in the Vosges mountain region where,
after heavy bombardments, they de-
livered attacks around Badonviller
and north of Celles-Sur-Plaine. Their
efforts, however, went to nought un-
der the French fire from guns and
rifles.
Likewise along the AiSne front and
in the Verdun sector along the banks
of the river Meuse a continuation Of
the attempts by the German crown
prince to break the French lines met
with the usual result-failure.
The airmen Of the allies are work.
ing havoc with the German fiiers and
on German positions far behind the
lines. In'fliphts in the air Saturday
the airmen accounted for seventeen
aircraft and the British fliers seven,
which were completely destroyed or
forced to land inside the Teutonic
lines badly battered from machine
gun fire.
Yesterdays report was 80 de-
stroyed and 81 brought down dam.
aged. -
In aerial raids behind the lines al-
lied machines have bombed numer-
Gus town, railway stations and can
tonments, the raids extending as far
as Selzaet, near the Dutch border, 10
miles from Client, which also re-
ceived a visitation.
American aviators belonging to the
Lafayette squadron took prominent
part in the French raid and performed
notable execution. One of the Amer
leans, Corporal Willis, of Boston, was
missing from the squadron when il
returned TO its base.
German airmen also tried their hand
at slipping through the British air
patrol and bombing.
In this they were also successful, but
the score was against them in the end,
for the explosive they loosed fell on
a British prisoner clearing station,
killing ten Germans and inflicting
further wounds on nine men of their
army who had already met with hard
usage at the hands of the British
guns.
There has been a considerable slis-
fleming on the front in Rumania ard
in Russia in the region of Wilma.
South of GroZechti, Southern Mol.
davia, the Russian have made a stand
against the attacks of the Teutonic
allies and repulsed them, and in the
Slanic sector also have beaten off att
tempts by the'invaders totake further
ground. In the Lake Noroc district
of the Wilma front the Germans ell.
deavored to win Russian trenches,
but their attacks broke down under
the Russian barrage fire.
The present week will witness tho
meeting in Berlin of the main com
mittee of the German reichstag. II
is considered probable that at this
session of the committee the Pope's
peace proposal will be considered
and that there will be a frank debate
on political, military and economic
questions.
Meanwhile, reports indicate a re-
sumption Of the period of unrest
among the German workers. Several
hundred men in the Krupp plant al
Madgeburg struck because of arrest Of
one OF the leaders, while the workmen
IN the Essen and DusSeldOrf and Rhina