The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-08-01
Bank After Bank OF
Foe Trenches Wiped
Out BY Artillery
By LOWELL MELLETT

Dt IL w ELL III II LLbII.
Sfar Correspondent United Press.r
LONDON, Aug. IA deluoe
OF rain that changed the histori-
cal mud Of Flanders into a sticky
ooxs, checked rne British drive
today.
Field Marshal HsIa's report
declared all gains had been con-
solidated during the night and
all German counter attacks re-
pulsed. The only offensive fight
ting he repor rted. however, was
In the nature OF "minor oper-
atlons" south OF the Ypres-
Confines canal, where British po-
sltlons were Improved.
By WILLIAM PHILLIP sIhRS
stan Correspondent United Press
WITH THE BRITISH AR
MES IN THE FIELD, Aug. -
Prisoners taken In the first ~
hours Of the great drive probs-
bly, Will reach 5000, according
to estimates today. The stream
Of Germans sent behind the
, lines has not yet been fully
counted.
No report has yet been re-
celved az 20 whether enemy
guns wore captured.
LONDON. Aug. THE most a
tanic concentration OF men and en-
gines OF destruction the world hal
ever known was juggernauting III
bloody way over the German iinei
today. In "a hours the war mon
ster. representing England's and
Frances supreme efforts. has spreaS
over 30 square miles. An area q
that size, blackened by a rain a
shells such as even the greatest ol
wars has not heretofore seen, ans
dyed probably by the blood OF thou
sands, has so far been wrenchet
from the invader.
London is not counting the coE
today. II expects great human sac
rifce. n hopes. however. that IN,
stroke may be so aimed that Ger
many must relinquish her subma
rine bases on the coast. The whole
nation waited expectantly today al
its troops still drove forward II
probably the greatest fanking oper
alton In the history OF militar!
science. The front started al n
miles Fighting today had apparent
" spread over even a greater ex
tent. practically from Armentiere,
on he south TO Dixmude on N,
north W -
Already Field Marshal Haivl
men. assisted by lndomitable Frencl
troops. have penetrated az somt
points three miles thru the German
lines. The count of prisoners hal
not vet been reported but II vii
reach AZ least 5000. German lossei
in killed and wounded VII Be great
Every from, dispatch today dwell
on the terrible effect Of the desdl!
British artillery Ere Line after lin'
OF German trenches were literalll
leyeled INTO crumbling earth. thi
concrete emplacements reduced t'
dusty fragments.
on the line whore the Frencl
were driving ahead the blood.
User" again lived Up t0 SIS name
Time after time French engineer
Nf.NkFN itF clItaiN Naif ." NNf
their pont0on Structures wrecked b,
he enemy's desperate defensive
ere but they got The troop acros.
and bey ond. in the mud and muol
NJ the lowiands The pOIlus stucl
hard and furiouslv.
England and France arc trivini
AZ what military experts havi
Judged 20 be the most vulnerable
spo, In fhe German 'ine Ans grea
penetration here viii menace, h'
enemy grip or ne North sea base
where IFS submarine warfare cen
ters no less than the German hold
on ihe great industrial enters .
Belgium around f1le. Journal koul
ers and Courtrsi
TIE OFFENSIVE g. ro overnight plai
OF strategy Preparations have beet
going forward for The stroke io.
more than q month Germany Lac
warning az what was. impending y
an arNllers preparation that hegai
20 days ago ard reached "a cont.np
ous cresCeuio OF fury a week back
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