The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-10-02
Berlin Military Writers Admit
That Germans Can Hardly Re-
gain the Initiative; Dread Ef.
feet Of Next British Stroke.
ALL ATTACKS OF FOE ARE
REPULsED BY GEN PETAlN
Hun Airmen Make Their Sixth
Attack in Eight Days on Brit
aims Capital; Few Casualties
Inflicted by the Bombardment.
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
Although the Berlin military writer's
are admitting that the Germans can
western front. the German high COM
mand is evidently do.ng IL utmost to
keep the British from making the
bert use Of their advantage In Flap-
dcrs
Apparently dreading the effect nf
the next british stroke Crown Prince
Rupprecht has been launching attack
after attack upon Field Marshal Haigs
troops In their advanced positions. la
an effort to distrranre the British
plans. similar taeties were adopted
last week on the eve 81 the renewed
British thrust, heavy counter attacks
being delivered on the evening vf
September %. when II became evident
IN the Germans that Haig was about
ready to launch his drive.
The record shows the effort ~ last
week to have been futile. Il Is too
early Vet for the effect OF the present
attempt To be developed. The British
commander, however. reports that the
attacks Themselves five In number.
were com. .''ete failures. the Germans
not being able 20 make any 8ppreci-
able impression on the Pritish posi-
tions along the Ypres- Menin road and
~ the southeastern edge of Polygon
wood, where the thru-ts we're deiiv
cred.
Nlff,b a.. t,.h,t. ,a.r,,..,, ttu. ia
Flanders hanging In the balance. as
the military maps show. small SUR
prise Is expressed that the German
comand IL making such desperate cf-
forts to l1lk the British plans AMI
u fighting hard for every inch -
ground protecting the I.illc-ostend
railway, scant ais miles beyond the
advancing British wedge.
on their front In northern Francs
the French are holding themselves in
restrain at present. permitting the
crown prince to hammer away nj
their lines in attack which almost
invariably are repulsed with heavy
German losses TWO attack boy th"
Germans in the Craonuo sector ON the
Aisne front last nigh, we're rcpu'srd.
Efforts %, the Germens ON two oc
casions g. rertpturo trenches which
they last lost u Che Beaumont region
in the Ncrd1u front also were uasuc.
,cssful
pVapi3c the intensity OF last nights
air RAID on ENGLAND. the official fix
ures show that the four groups of
German airmcu making tholr sixth nt-
tack in cight days. inflicted compnra-
lively fgw casualties by the bombs
they dropped Lord French reports
today that ten persons were killed
and thirty eight injured
While Britishcrs are urging reprls-
ais for the German attacks on Lun-
doE the French ave actually conduct
.ng such retributiNe enterprises sun
day night thcN h"mnarded the Ge'-
man city of Stuttgart. one hundred
miles bchiud the frontier and last
uisht the rcpvisals we're continued on
larger scale Stuttgart was agtir
,4itrd hy FRENCH alrmen and the
prussiuu city ~ Frankfort-on-thc-
Main. with about two hdudrcd thou.
sand population and more than t25
mlps from the French border als
was subjected tu aerial attack Th'
l'rus,'3p towns ot rTcyes and Coblen.
were other places bombed bs n.
French raiders