The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-02
WAR SUMMARY


While the rain and the morass have
served to dold the entente allied
forces in leash, preventing a resump-
tion of the great offensive of Tues
day, they have not been effective in
keeping the Germans from throwing
counter attacks with large forces of
men against several newly won sec
tors of the front held by the British
and French troops nor in bringing g
about cessation of the violent artil-
lery duel along the entire line.
Crown Prince Rupprecht evidently
considers the British gain northeast
of Ypres the most important made in
Tuesdays battle, for upon this terri
tory he has concentrated the strong
est of his counter offensive opera
tions in an attempt to regain the lost
ground. His efforts have gone for
naught the British artillery and in
fantry fire raking the advancing
forces merecilessly, putting an end to
the attacks and adding materilly to
the already heavy casualties the Ger
mans have suffered.
There is no indication in either the
British or French official communi-
cations just when their combind push
again will be started, but it is pos
sible that at least day of warm sun
shine will be necessary to dissipate
the quagmire so that the big allied
guns mey be realigned and to permit
the airmen to relocate the positions
the enemy is holding.
Although the Teutonic allies are still
advancing against the Russians i'll
East Galicia, Bukowina and along the
Moldavia frontier, the allied offensive
on the western front apparently is
on the nerves of the German emperor
whose troops before have had to face, |
and with great losses of men and ter
rain, gigantic attacks by the British
and French, covered by counties
pieces of modern artillery of all cali
bres and ranges.
1t is assumed that a war council
of the high military and naval lead
ers in Germany called by Emperor
william to meet in Brussels, had as
it's object an analytical survey OF
the offensive, which if it is carried
out as planned by the allies, would
prove a menace to the German hold
ings in Belgium, and especially along
the coast.
Wednesday was the date set for the
conference which was to have been
attended by Field Marshal Won Hin
deuburg. chief of the imperial general
staff; Crown Prince Rupprecht, OF
Bavaria, in command in Flanders; the
German crown prince and others, in
cluding Vice Admiral Won Capelle'
minister of the navy, whose naval
bases on the North Sea would be ar
fected by a success to the entente
allied arms AS yet, however, nothing
has come through to indicate the
trend of the discussion or concerning
any decision to counter the allied plan
arrived at.
Daily the situation of the Russians
on the eastern front grows increas-
ingly acute. Across the Zbrocz river
in Russia, to the south between the
Dueister and the Pruth river, In Bu-
kowina and in the Carpathian region
bordering Rumania the Russians
everywhere are steadily falling Dack'
So far have the operations of tn
Teutonic allies been advanced in
Bukowina that seemingly the niue
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he returned to the Austrians. Numer-
Gus additional towns and vantage
points along the front have been cap
tured by the Teutons, Berlin asserts
that from the Pruth to the eastern 1901
hills of the Kelemen mountains,
distance of approximately a hundred
miles, the Russians are steadily CIV
ing ground.
Advices reaching Petrograd from
the front are to the effect that re-
trograde movement by the Russians
has been carried out IS miles south
east of Riga, the important Russian
mort and naval base on the Baltic
Here the Germans have occupied tne
1nxskun bridgehead. which the Rus
SLAMS previously had evacuated
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