Arizona republican., 1917-08-19
OF GERMANS AGAINST CANADIANS AFTER REFUSE IN
 LENS REGION IS SHORTENED
Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria continues to hurl counter-attacks against the new positions captured by the Canadians in their recent offensive in the region of Lens. Saturday morn ing the Germans forced their way into the Canadian trenches northwest Of the French mining center, but after furious hand hand fighting they were eject ed, leaving considerable number or dead on the battlefield.
 On the Belgian front from the North
 Sea coast to the Ypres sector, where the British and French in their of fensive begun in the middle of the week took 1900 prisoners and A guns, the French again have pushed forward, capturing strong German point of support east of the Steenbeke river. The British have organized their newly conquered territory and the artillery bombardment on this front again has assumed a degree of drum fire inten- i sity. presa ging another vicious blow at i the German lines The Berlin war of l flee now admits the loss, after severe | fighting of the Belgian village of i Langemarck, northeast of YpreS, and says the German troops have occupied
 lines in front of the positions con- quered by the British.
 | On the river Aisne front the German i crown prince directed number of at tacks on the French trenches, notably
 in the vicinity of Froidmont farm, but all were repulsed. Preparations for
 German assault in the Massiges sector of the Champagne region were broken up by French fire On the Verdun 1 front a spirited French attack swept
 over the German positions in Caurieres | Wood enabling the French to retake all the trenches which had been wrested i from them on August Is and IT.
 Aviators of all the belligerents on | the western front were active as the
 week closed. French aviators shot
 down seven German machines and
 forced eight others to land in a badly damaged condition. On the night of August 17-1S French aerial squadrons dropped fourteen tons of explosives on German aviation grounds, railway sta 1 tions and encampments. British air men destroyed 23 Teuton airplanes and l forced 13 others to land. Eleven Brit ish planes and two French machines,
 according to the British and French re-
 ports, did not return. The Germans fclaim to have accounted for 26 entente
 airplanes.
 On the western front military activ-
 ity was largely confined to the Ru-
 manian front South of Grozechti. in
 southwestern Moldavia, forces of
 Archduke Joseph of Austria attacked
 the Rumanian and Russian troops. talk
 ing more than 1900 prisoners In the
 last month, according to the German
 general headquarters, the Austro-
 Germans fighting in Galicia, Buko-
 wina and Rumania captured 42000 of
 ficers and men, 257 guns, 54S machine
 guns 50,000 rifles and a large quantity of other war material
 Fighting has broken out in the Cau-
 casus front, both the Russians and
 Turks taking the offensive. Russians in the region of Kharput, west of Lake
 Van, attacking for the first time since
 the revolution on the Caucasion front
 occupied a series of Turkish villages Further west the Turks attacked the
 Russians at Baneh, in the Mosul region , and forced the defenders to retire to 7 other positions.
 British light naval forces on August
 10 engaged a German destroyer in the l North Sea- The Teuton warship } though repeatedly hit, escaped through
 the line field in a mist. Later the British Warships attacked several Ger l man mine sweepers and, according tc British admiralty report, severely damaged two of them. A German ac- , count of the naval clash says the Eng fish vessels withdrew from the engage ment with all possible haste under s I well placed German fire.