The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-04
REPULSE OF GERMANS AT
TER A FRIGHTFUL
CARNAGE
No Thought Is Given to Losses
as Teuton Masses Are Hurled
on British and Are Shot to
Pieces.
q. n. S. Leased Wirel

gle around Cambria continued today
with both the British and Germans
stubbornly cOntesting every inch of
corpse dotted and blood soaked soil.
South of Cambria the Germans have
made a concentrated effort TO break
through the British lines on the edge
of the salient, near which the British
and French armies join on the north
ern end of the Somme front
Some ground was taken by the leu
tons at a terrible cost in human life,
and the British were compelled to
give up the village of Masnieres, but
the Germans failed to achieve their
main objective.
Coincident with the battle at Cam
brai there has been another flare up
of fighting on the west Flanders, near
Passchendalele, where heavy artillery
duels have been in progress for
week.
Field Marshal Haig's men drove
forward, making some gains of a local
nature on the northern end of the IA
nous Passchendaele ridge and there
were indications that a big fight is
| to be developed in that sector.
Germany is straining every nerve
and sinew to crush the salient thrust
| into the Teuton front by the big drive
| which General Sir Julian Bwng has
launched and to remove the menace
which the salient offers to the key
positions defending the upper end OF
the Hindenberg line.
No thought is given to losses. Since
Friday morning when the German
| counter drive was begun on the front
| between MOuevres and Vendhuile il is
estimated that the Prussians have fed
| two divisions or more to the reeking
furnace of death on this battlefield.
The chief zones of fighting on this
| front have been MOuevres, which is
just three miles east of the western
terminus of the Drocourt-Queant sup
| port line; Bourbon wood and the vii
| lagos of Fontaine Notre Dame, Can
| taing, Graincourt les Tadvincourt, Ma
Going, Maunieres, Cornelisu Vanh-
huile and high ground that flanks the
Scheldt canal
. Some of the military critics believe
that the fighting along this front has
been the most savage that the war has
yet produced in the west, even in
Guiding the battle of Verdun.
An indication of the fury of the
struggle is shown by the fact that
some of the artillery pieces have now
changed hands three times, being TAX
| en- first by the British, then by the
Germans, only to fall into the hands
of British counter attacks on Saturday
2 night and Sunday.
For the first time in the war the
Germans sent forward artillery to sup
, port charging troops, the guns keep
: ing pace with the attacking soldiers
into the very forefield The artil-
lery was to be used to protect the
attackers against British tanks at a
close range.
The British used considerable
amount of cavalry for covering pur-
. poses the cavalry being rushed to
the front on Friday when the Ger
:, mans began their encircling movement
against the Cambria salient.
Despite the numerous attacks which
e the Germans have directed against
e the British positions the main lines
are still intact, although there have
been minor re-alignments at some of
T.. the important points where the Brit
c ish gave up positions to escape the
s raking artillery fire from German
& batteries which was inflicting losses.
a, The British front southwest OF
Cambria now lies slightly over four
IS miles from the German base
l. ROME, Dec. 3-Frustrated in their
l. attempts to cut through the Italian
2 lines on the Asiago plateau and the
lie Piave river with their infantry the
ID Austro-German invaders are now try
n ing to blast their way forward with
p their artillery.
4 In isolated districts there have been
~ bursts of minor infantry fighting, but
j. classed as an artillery battle.
o. Advices from the front today told
a of a gain by the Bersaglieri in the
If Monte Pertica sector, but the Italians
If afterwards withdrew voluntarily be-
r cause their new position was caught
under a cross fire from enfiladinl
Id guns.
re Italian airmen reported fresh con
of centrations of Austro- German troop,
On along the lower Piave, at the poin
n where their line lies nearest to Ven
ice.
CHI The effort of the Germans to rol
IS back the defenders between the Bren
es ia and Piave valleys and to get be
re hind the Piave line has failed utter
C. ly before the gallant resistance o
the Italians and their supports o
r. seasoned British and French troops.
Id, The invaders attempted to carry GU
is a double movement One column
'e- struck from Trentino and anothe
100 from Galore, the object being to gai
90. a footing on the wall which over
looks and commands the Italian real
Ter Rafaale Bastianollo, who has jus
so returned from the front where he re
IS; organized the hospital service. toll
OF today of the enormous losses inflicte
by the Italians. Mines were connect
in ed with the main bridge over tn
ar Piave and il was blown up Will
25 crowded with Austro- Hungarian so
diers~