Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-08-29
Bad Weather Prevails in FIan-
ders and Northern France
Limiting Action Chiefly to
Heavy Artillery Fire,
GERMANS CEASE TO
ATTACK AT VERDUN
SIav Troops Voluntarily Leave
Trenches and MackenSen.
Takes Heights in Rumania,
Report.
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The fighting fronts except in the
Austro- Italian theater and in eastern
Bukowina and southern Moldavia
show remarkable abatement in the
violence in the fighting. Along the
front in Flanders and northern
France bad weather again has set in
and aside from reciprocal lombard
ments, which at some points have
reached the stage of drum fire, and
minor infantry operations on the part
of the British, little is being done by
either of the belligerents.
In the Verdun sector the Germans
Rave ceased their counter-attacks
against the newly won French posi-
tons, evidently having found that the
task of trying to rehablitate them
selves was useless. The infantry of
both sides have remained in their
trenches and onl.' on tho western
bank of the Meuse has there been
even artillery activity.
Cadorna Still Winning.
On the BainiZza plateau, north of
| Gorilla the Italians and Austrians
| are still engaged in furious battle.
New positions have been won by Gen.
| eral Cadorna's forces and heavy Aus
l.trian attacks to retrieve lost ground
have been repulsed Silence is still
maintained by the Rome war office
concerning the operations in the Carso
| plateau. An Austrian official com
munication dated Sunday, the first
! received from Vienna for several days,
acknowledges the capture by the 1tal~
| ians of Monte Santo, but says the
| position was evacuated by the Aus
trians Friday night without fighting.
Russians Retreat.
| On the frontier of Bessarabia, in
eastern Bukowina the Russian troops
again are showing signs of disaffec-
ton, having near Boyany deliberately
quit their trenches and retreated east
| the Austro- Germans taking the
| trenches they quilted. Near Novo
Zlica the Teutonic allies have begun
an offensive against the Russians and
have captured several positions. In
| lower Moldavia in the region of FOX
shani, Field Marshal Won Mackensen's
army has taken height positions from
| the Rumanians.
In northern Russia no fighting of
| importance is taking place, evidently
indicating that the German offensive
| west of Riga was not the forerunner
of strong attempt to capture the
Russian seaport and naval base on the
Baltic.
! Notifies Argentina.
Germany in order to avert the ex-
treme probability of having another
enemy aligned against her, in note
to Argentina has agreed to modify
her submarine campaign insofar as it
| affects Argentine ships and also to
| indemnify Argentina for the torpedo
ing of the steamer Toro.
Thus 1t would seem Germany has
takcn to heart the warning of her
new foreign minister, Dr. Won Kuehl-
mann, that it is necessary to shape
| her policy toward neutrals so as to
| bring no more combatants upon her.
The German note says specifically
! that acquiescence in the demands of
Argentina is made "in order to main
! tain friendly relations" and it even
comedies freedom of the seas to ves-
sells under the Argentine flag carry
! ing food notwithstanding that food
always has been considered absolute
| ly contraband by Germany.