The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-08-14
AMERICAN PRISONERS
CAPTURED BY GERMANS
WE'RE TAKEN WHEN SUB
SANK CAMPANA.
Captain of American Vessel and
-Four Bluejackets Are Now
Prisoners of War.

Five Americans are prisoners
aboard German submarine. the
navy department believes. Four
of these probably are the first pris-
oners of the American fighting force
taken by the Germans.
The captain of the American
steamer Campana and four members
or the armed guard were taken from
the steamer when she was sunk by
German submarine August 6, 14O
miles west of lie de Re, off the coast
OF france. Forty-seven survivors Of
the steamer, which was a Standard
Oil tanker, have been landed safely.
Unfavorable weather again 10
hampering large scale operations in
Flanders, but in southern Moldavia
the desperate fighting between the
Russo-Rumanians and the Teutons
continues with increasing ferocity.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen is
using strong forces in an endeavor
to break through the entente line to-
ward the railroad junction of Tecu-
chiu. The Russians and Rumanians
are resisting valiantly the numer-
ically superior enemy, but have been
forced to give up, at least tempo
rarily, their positions along the rail-
road line north of Fokshani.
Germans Capture 6,7OO.
Russo Rumanian retirement to
nf 40
zeni, on the Sereth river, is reported
by Petrograd. In counter attacks
preceding their retreat the Russians
and Rumanians took 1900 German
! prisoners. Berlin says that Won
Mackensen's troo IS withstood strong
attacks and captured more than g.
/ 700 prisoners as we'll as eighteen
cannon and siXty-one machine guns.
! Around Ocna, northwest of FOX
shani and near the Transylvania
ing with the Teutons forcing a Ru-
/ Osna. AS counter move to the
Teuton offensive, the Russians have
assumed the initiative in an attack
at the confluence of the Buzeu and
Sereth rivers, southeast OF Falk-
shani and in the region of Galatz
Part of the Teuton positions were
captured by the Russians, who also
took some prisoners, four cannon
and eight machine guns.
Elsewhere on the eastern front in
northern Rumania, in Bukowina
and on the Russo-Galacian frontier
there has been no marked activity.
Weather Bad i'm Flanders.
The weather was wet and stormy
in Flanders Saturday night and ear
iy sunday. and there was little in
fantry activity, but the artillery
firing continues to be intense. In an
isolated section north of Lens the
British gained possession of Ger
man crater.
During Saturday night and Sum
day morning the French recaptured
all the remaining trench elements
taken by the Germans Wednesday.
A German attack south of Allies on
| the Aisne front was repulsed by
General Petain's men. Berlin re-
ports the repulse of French attacks
in the region OF Cerny. on the same
front.
German airplanes on Sunday raid
ed the south coast of England.
Bombs we're dropped at points in
Essex and Kent. some distance from
London. Twenty-three persons were
killed. including nine women and
six children, and nearly three score
were injured. British aircraft drove
the Germans off and pursued them
out to sea.
Frankfort-on-theMain about 100
miles within the German lines at
Verdun, has been bombarded by
French aviators in reprisal for Ger
man raids against Nancy and the re-
gion north of Paris.