The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-19

: Germans are taken to the rear. TIL
= loss to the Germans up to this tim
9 Is three times as much as that Of tn
= Allies; the German loss being abou
= 900,000 in killed and wounded, cap
4 tured or missing.
g The United States now ranks thirt
in holding mileage at the front. Tht
= German drive started March 81, or
Sunday, and the first day they cap
6 tured 900 guns, not including ma
chine guns, $4,000 men and nine
;, miles Of ground. The Germans sen
: men over the top in such greay
= hordes that the allies just turned
! loose and fired with open sights OF
) their guns. .a.. q. .-s
: All is quiet along the Somme the
!, last two or three weeks. The Ypres
! salient had failed and also the drive
on AnIiens. The Germans are prepar.
!, ing for another drive and prisoners
, say they have 100000 men in re-
serve for this drive. We hope they
will run up against what they did
last time. ~. %
The British naval forces lately
made a raid on the German subma-
rine bases of zeebrugge and Ostend
Three battle cruisers, and twenty
destroyers and a number of sub
marines took part in it. Early in
the morning, about a. m. they
entered the harbor. There is a long
mole, or in other words concrete
ridge, about 40 feet high and about
40 feet high and about a mile and a
half long, stretched across the har-
Dor to protect it from ocean break
ers. On this side were mounted bat
teries Of eleven inch guns which
command the entrance to the harbor
and they could be swung around so
they could shoot all over the bay
Besides these guns on this mole was
a great sea-plane station which
housed about twenty sea- planes.
Near where this mole connects with
the land there is a viaduct or what
is called an arch, under which ships
pass.
When the British entered the har-
Dor the German land guns began
dropping shells on them. The Brit
ish ran three old cruisers filled with
cement against the submarine canal
which connected Zeebrugge and Os-
tend, and sunk them; thus complete
ly blocking the canal. The crew Of
these old cruisers escaped in a steam
launch. .rr. 81.
In the meantime two cruisers were
Smelling the sea-plane base and the
battery Of guns on the mole, and de-
stroyed them. About this time a
battleship. named the Vindictive was
landing a storming party. They had
especially prepared mounting lad
Gon
mole a German sentry was heard to
say, "Dunner und Bitten, it's der
Americans" The British carried the
mole by storm, losing about 800 men,
while the Germans lost 400.
While all this was going on the
British had filled an old submarine
with explosives and ran it under the
viaduct. The Germans thought they
had sunk it by their gun fire but
the next instant the submarine blew
up the viaduct, killing about 200 Ger
mans. Then the British began shell
ing Zeebrugge and destroyed many
munitions buildings.
The submarine warfare is waning
and the latest reports say the Ger
mans are planning to abandon Zee
brugge and Ostend on account of the
British ea-planes continually drop
ping bombs on the works. .
The Zeppelin is a bag full Of gas
invented by q Count. It proved al
most Invaluable in the first part of
the war in making raids on England
and it was used for observation but
one is never seen these days ON the
battle front, If the allied air craft
and anti aircraft guns are within
shooting distance.
Speaking Of zeppelins they have
become a failure because over 40
have been put out of commission.
Five were brought down by the
French on their return trip to Ger
many from ratding England Traw-
lers in the North Sea brought down
many too. The main airplanes OF the
allies are monoplanes, triplanes and
biplanes. The monoplanes are fast
French planes equipped especially
for scouting. They are not armed
| and they carry a pilot and observer.
They are used to take pictures Of
the enemy territory and to direct
gun fire.
The biplanes and triplanes usual
~ are armed with one or two ma
chine guns. There are different sizes
and single and double seaters. The
single scatter has a man that man
ages his own machine gun and en-
CINE too. Inc double scatter mas a.
pilot and aviator The pilot runs the
machine and machine gun and the
aviator runs another machine gun.
Captain Guynemer was the great
est of French aviators. He had a
fast biplane and he accounted for
more than so German planes before
his death.
Major Lufberry was killed last
tuesday. He was an. American avi-
ator Of great fame, having brought
down is German planes. He was ra-
trolling over the German line when
all of sudden big German tri-
plane appeared out of the clouds. The
Germans must have had trouble
with their engine and were forced to
descend Lufberry began firing his
gun ait them but it TANNED and the
next instant he was shot in the
thumb. The same bullet must have
punctured the petrol tank as that
was the only wound found on him.
His plane burst into flames immedi-
ately and when he was about 500
yards above the ground he jumped
out OF it. He was killed instantly
when he struck the earth.
This is a great war in many ways
but we hope it will be the last one.
Everyone should do his bit and them
a little more so that he can help
the boys who have gone across to
fight.