The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1917-09-25
BRITISH HOLD LINE
DESPITE HEAVY BLOWS
GERMANS MAKING FIERCE
COUNTER ATTACKS.
German Naval Works Shelled
"by Warships with Results
Pronounced Satisfactory.

In the midst of Russia's internal
/ troubles has come another German
stoke on the Russian northern front
resulting in the capture of the
bridgehead and the town of Jacob
stadt. on the Dvina, and enforced
retirement of the Russians to the
eastern bank of the river.
The fall of the bridgehead gave
the Germans possession of new ter
rltory on front of approximately
twenty-five miles and six miles in
depth. The Germans took only 4On
prisoners, but gathered in fifty
guns.
This suddenly developed opera
ton seems unlikely to develop any
thing of Importance in its effect up-
on the general military situation
with the desperate battle still in
progress on the Flanders front.
Desperate Counter Attacks.
The Germans continue to launch
desperate counter-attacks from
their battered Flanders lire and to
combat every effort of Field Mar
shall Haig's forces to improve their
positions. This fighting has been
very costly to the Germans. The
London official statement laws stress
on the severe character of the Ger
man losses.
The German command seems re-
luctant to surrender the slight ele-
vation west of Gheluvelt. Fierce
fighting developed there Saturday
Press dispatches indicate that up TO
midafternoon there had been 40
there had been no cessation of the
struggle.
Berlin's Statement
Berlin's official statement makes
no claim of any ground recovered
/ from the British. 1t records the
hghting so far as marked by the
continuation of British attacks all
along the Langemarcke-Holle
front. which were repulsed. and de-
scribes Saturdays fighting as en-
Sagements of local character
which resulted in German successes.
| Regarding the air fighting OF
Thursday and Friday, the customary
! comparison is given by Berlin of
German and Entente losses in ma
chimes. Thirty-nine hostile machines
were shot down by the Germans il
is declared, while only three Ger
man machines were lost. This va
ries notably from the British Of
hcial account which mentions ten
German airplanes destroyed and siy
driven out of control. The proba-
BILE loss OF ten British machines.
classed as missing, is admitted by
London.
Ostend BOmborded.
British warships off the Belgian
coast patrol have bomba~ded the
town of Ostend. where German ma
val works were shelled with results
pronounced satisfactory British
aviators continued their exters rsive
bombarding operations behind the
"eTHldH nneS, OSteNd Detng one or
the points successfully attacked, as
well as the fleet.
The complete text Of the German
and Austrian replies to the papaI
peace note shows that neither lays
down any definite terms as a basis
for peace. There was no officially
expressed comment in Washington,
but it vas unofficially indicatd that
such examination as had been made
of tho document revealed no reason
for alteration of the position of the
United States
AT unofficial expression from the
British foreign office pointed to the
lack of anv mention of PREPARATION"
or restoration" in the German re-
ply.
British Hold Their Ground
With the British Armies In
T'n~ce and Belgium, Sept 22.-(By
the Associated Press) Hard fight
jre developed during the night at
vsrious points along the front OF