The Elbert County tribune., 1917-08-17

TAKENIN BELGIUM
BRITISH DRIVE FOE ACROSS THE
sTEENeEkE RIVER AND RE-
ESTABLISH POSITIONS.
ONE ALLIED SHIP SUNK
LONE ENGLISH AVIATOR WINS
FIGHT WITH ENEMiEs.-TEU-
TONS FORCED BACK.

western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, Aug. 15.-No great changes
have taken place on the battlefields
of Europe. Northeast of Ypres. In
Flanders, British troops have forced
German posts to retire across the
Steenbeke river. Field Marshal Haig's
men held their gain and re-established
their line on the eastern bank of the
river.
Elsewhere, from the coast to ST.
Quentin, the artillery firing increased
In some sectors and the British car
ried out number of successful raids,
the most important being In the en-
virons of Lens. by the Canadians.
French reconnoitering parties have
penetrated the German lines near
Rheims in two places. Elsewhere In
Champagne. as well as at Cerny. on
the Aisne front and in the Carspach
sector. the French repulsed German
surprise attacks.
The Russians and Rumanians have
checked. for the time being. the Of
fensive OF Field Marshal Won Mack
ensen in the region of Fokshani.
Lone English aviator wins fight with
three enemy planes.
London-A British destroyer has
been sunk by mine in the North Sea.
The captain, two officers and forty
three men were saved.
Berlin Anp IA TrnnDe nndar
Field Marshal Won Mackensen cap
tured the RumaIdan town of Pantziu,
railroad junctioa in southern Mol
davia. which had been desperately de-
Tended by the Russo-Rumanian forces.
London.-In Flanders the Anglo
French are resting preparatory to an
other assauIt The Germans must
make new efforts to hold the salient
east of Ypres, say war experts.
German airplanes which raidedsthe
southeast coast of England Sunday
had London as their objective. but
British airplanes blocked them. Two
raiders were brought down by Eng
lish flyers. Berlin admits the loss of
two machines and Amsterdam reports
that a German machine was forced to
land in Dutch territory.
The American bark Christiane has
been sunk off the Azores by a Ger
man submarine. The crew was
landed.
London.-A day of great political
excitement in London concluded with
the announcement that George Nicoll
Barnes, minister of pensions, had
been appointed to replace Arthur
Henderson as labor member of the
War Cabinet.
An Atlantic Port.-Another German
submarine has been sunk by the guns
of merchantmen, il the gunners OF
British freighter which arrived here
are correct in their assumption that
three shots which struck an undersea
boat off Brest, France, sent her to the
bottom. The Britisher encountered
the submarine ON her last outward
trip from this port.
One shot destroyed the periscope.
The second and third were followed
by an explosion and the submarine
Disappeared. Inc SunnerS were con-
fident the submarine went down in.
voluntarily.
acknowledgements engagements
are being fought by the Russo-Ruma
nian forces and Austro-German armies
along the Rumanian front. In the
center of this battle line. according to
the Russian official statement, Rus
slams and Rumanians repulsed strong
Teuton attacks along the Fokshani
Marasechti railroad. then counter-at
tackled and captured 1900 Germans.
only to retire later.
In southwestern Moldavia the Rus
SLAMS took the offensive, smashed the
Teuton lines and captured a number
of prisoners and four guns.