The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-10-06
BRITISH HOLD
CAPTURED GROUND
Germans Make No Further
Counter Attacks.
RAIOING PARTIES REpUlSEO
General Haigs Victory Hailed as One
of Greatest of War-SeVerai Thou
sand Prisoners Captured.

OF greatest OF " ar-ScNcfai nou
sand Prisoners Captured.
London, Oct. 1.-THE Germans have
undertaken no further c0un er attacks
, against the positions east OF YpTes
gained by the British in Thursday
offensive, although they kept them
under a heavy fire during the night
The British are consolidating trsil
newly won ground. The official state
ment adds:
"A hostile raiding party endeayored
to enter our trenches north OF Gou
zeacourt but was driven off with
; loss.
Three other raids were attempted
/ by the enemy in the neighborhood OIL
! Lens. All were repulsed in one CASE
after stiff lighting"
Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, i'll
his report says the villages of Reuta
and Noordenhoek were captured by
English troops. They also secured
| the high ground Overlooking Bece
| laere, east of Ypres. Australian regi
ments took the village of Broedse :ndt
and established themselves well over
the ridge five miles east of Ypres.
"a previous despatch from the FROM
said the German prisoners then mum
bered 3G00D
British arms achieved one Of the
! greatest victories of the war in a ire
! mendous assault begun It GHwu
against the German positions east an
northeast Of Ypres.
When the whole tale of this battle
! has been told it may take its place
as an uneQualled triumph Of three
years of conflict Each successive 70
I port from the seething caldron along
| this front adds to the Importance OF
! the success recorded
From pOint near the YpTeS-Staden
| railway on the north TO the Npres
! Merin hi"hwav on tAe south. the n an
Of the British empire have surged
which at some places carried them to
depth OF $500 yards DYE" still more
! OF the German keystone positions IN
| the Observation-Disclosures ridge
system of defense.
On the "orthern wing Of the ad
vance the P~it'sh ave reached Peel
capelle ami GravenStafel and have
overrun most Of the Gravenstafel
ridge which juts out to the west fr' N
| the Passchenda ele- Gheluvelt. South
Of the YpresRoulers railway tbs
troops are reported to be over!ookine
the eastern slopes Of the main ridge
and in some places to have pushed on
into the valley below.
AS the attacking troops went out IN
quest OF a great adventure over the
mist-shrouded slopes, their vast pro.
tective artillery barrage caught in its
merciless swirl large numbers Of the
enemy who by coincidence also had
been massing for an early morning at
tack. along wide front extending
rom the neighborhood of Sonnebekel
o the Poiygon wood. Some FIVE d.
Visions (75,000) Of German troops
we're involved, three OF these having
'een rushed up in reserve to support
heir comrades in the front lines
vhen the German attacks should be-
in.
A solid wall OF breaking shells
loughed through them in a hurricane 4
4 death, and they lie in countless
thousands amidst the devastation that
he barrage left in It's wake. Part of
hese Inflated troops were the famous
uardsmen in whom the German EN- I
eror had taken such pride in the days !
one by. These massed troops WERE {
OF the only ones to suffer Reports
rom prisoners all along the line in
icate that the Germans lost heavily 6
throughout the territory involved.
At many places Germans ran in ter I
" or were captured in large numbers 6
s the British attack began. All ,dayl
.reams Of broken prisoners have been i
curing into the British cages in the T
ear. Perhaps half OF them were 8
ounded. Some of them were blinded 8
nd some we're with shattered limbs. C
pitiful sight even TO those harder 4
! to such scenes. t
Taking the battle as whole, the b
ermans offered weak resistance to t
lie British advance. Despite the o
eavy blow dealt to the enemy, il was g
ot considered improbable that they n
ould make strenuous counter attacks
J soon as they could reform their a
lattered forces. II