Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-08
Germans Make new At
tempts But are Beaten
Back by British.
ARTILLERY DUEL
IS PERSISTENT
Flanders Battlefield is Again
a Mass of Mud and Water
Filled Holes.

London; Oct. 8.-The Germans
made an attack last evening on Brit
ish positions east Of Ypres, where the
British recently made imprtant ad-
vances. The war office reports that
the eenmy was repulsed. The state
ment follows:
IAN infantry attack developed after
yesterday at dusk on our front be-
tween Hollebeke and Broodseinde.
The attack was beaten off.
I'VE successfully raided the enemy's
lines east of Monchy last night"
Counter Attnck Driven on.
A counter attack last night by the
Germans in force east Of Polygon
wood was quickly beaten off by artil-
lery and machine gun fire. The front
500 yards. The attack was preceded
by heavy artillery barrage along the
greater portion of the new battle line
The rain yesterday turned the
Flanders battlefield into a mass of
deep mud and filled the shell holes
with water, making most difficult mill
tary operations of all sorts. The sun
was shining this morning, but it will
take several days Of fair weather to
May Force Statement,
External pressure to force the Ger
man government to set forth its war
aims clearly having failed on the sur
face, internal conditions within the
empire threaten to compel the issu-
ance Of full statement of Germany's
aims. What the German leaders
discussed in the Reichstag this week,
probably today.
The imperial chancellor, DIR. Mi
chaelis Is finding the way as difficult
as it was for his predecessor, Won
Bethmann-H Hollweg, and he must now
face the critics of the government in
the Reichstag. Whether, as has been
charged: the bureaucracy and the
army have been furthering the pam
German scheme of annexation and in
IDENTITIES ts expected to be brought
out in the Reichstag debate.
- 4ssssss; Falls to Satisfy.
DR.. Michaelis sent Minister Of the
Interior Helherich before the Reichs-
tas zig e maeS sass Ssement m os On
~ the srat3cal members Of the Reichs-
tag and the sitting was adjourned to
today after the we chaEc allor's
speech had been interrupted. General
Won Stein. the war minister was jeer-
ed when he attem pied to explain the
arrays side Of the accusation that tho
high command was using strong
methods to help the PAN German agi-
tation. =,
Former Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg. some, months. before his
resignation, had a test of strength
with Admiral Won Tirpitz. the reputed
organizer of ruthless submarine war
fare. and the chancellor won. The
admiral since has been busy and the
new Fatherland party. of which he is
a sponsor. according % recent re-
ports. has been very active in oppos-
Ing the -Reichstag ma ainEi49k. declara-
ton for peace without annexations or
indemnities.
1t has now come to a test between
the followers Of Won Tirpitz and the
pan-Germans on one side and the ma
jority Of the Reichstag on the other.
Recent reports have shown that the
feeling between the pan-Germans and
the .Reichstag majority has been be-
coming more intense. some Socialist
members Of the Reichstag having
gone so far as to charge that the agi-
tho German people into two camps on
the question Of the extremes Of the
war.
Cold Weather Approaching.
Approaching cold weather on the
western front is forecast in the ap-
pearance Of snow in the vosges. In
Flanders the weather has been most
uutoSOAoOAo ZIG last IWo udys, UuI OIL
flcial reports mention no letup in the
violent artillery duels. The British
are probably using the new positions
won last week as base from which
to harrass the Germans in the low
lands, preparatory for. a new stroke
in this plan to outflank the German
positions in the north.
Unomcial reports from Stockholm
say strong German naval forces have
been sighted in the Baltic sea off the
Danish and Swedish coasts, bound
probably for the Gulf Of Finland for a
drive on Helsinfors, Finland, and
Petrograd. The Germans are said tc
be concentrating large force, in.
cluding mine sweepers. seaplanes and
transports, and plan to attack Hell
singford by land and sea.