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* 1 HE GREAT WAR *
* DAY BY DAY. *
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* (Associated Press Summary.)
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TUESDAY.
For the second night in succession
the Geriruns have raided the south
eastern section of England and reach
ed London.
Tuesday night's visitation apparent
ly was staged earlier than the one on
Monday, but the Germans did not
succeed in penetrating to the heart
of the city, being stopped on the out
skirts by the defensive forces. A
score of casualties are reported to
have been caused by the few bombs
which the Germans were able to drop.
Latest reports on the raid of Monday
night show fifteen dead and seventy
injured.
The German airplanes Tuesday
night followed the same course as the
raiders of Monday night, attempting
to approach London through Kent and
Essex and up the course of the
Thames. Little property damage was
done Monday night. British airmen
and the anti-aircraft guns of Lon
don's defense making it too hot for
the Germans to stay long. The air
ship raid of Monday night on the
Y'orkshire and Lincolnshire coasts had
little success. The Zeppelins did not
penetrate far inland and bombs drop
ped at a coast town caused injuries
to three women.
The army of Crown Prince Rup
precht of Bavaria became active again
Tuesday and made desperate attempts
to retake the ground gained by the
British last Thursday near the Ypres
Menin road in Flanders. In the first
assaults the Germans succeeded in
entering the British lines at two
points. Field Marshal Haig's men
fought back valliantly and in addi
tion to withstanding further attacks
hy the Germans, straightened out
their line. The day's effort brought
nothing to the Germans but additional
casualties. Great artillery activity is
in progress in the sector east of
Y pres.
Northeast of Verdun the infantry
activity has slackened. After their
ineffectual efforts of Monday the Ger
mans attacked the French near the
Bois le Chaune early Tuesday. This
attack, although aided by liquid fire,
also was repulsed. Berlin claims offi
cially to have taken trenches here on
Monday and to have held them against
counter-attacks. On the Aisne front
the artillery battle continues.
There has been no great activity
on the other fronts. In the Trentino
jn the region of Monte Nero the Aus
tro-Hungarians exploded a mine un
der the Italian positions, but the Ital
ian barrage fire prevented the ene- 1
my from making any gains. The Ital- ]
ians have repulsed further local at
tacks on the llainsizza plateau, north
east of Gorizia.
German efforts to recapture the |
new positions gained by the Russians
southeast of Riga on the Pskoff high
road have been checked by the Rus
sians.
Great Britain and France have for
mally notified the provisional Russian
government that they would not con
elude a separate peace to the detri
ment of Russia. These assurances
were in reply to reports current in
Russia that Germany was endeavor
ing to make peace at the expense of
the new republic.
WEDNESDAY.
Field Mai shal Hair's men again
are striking in Flanders and the
force of their blow, like that of
those that have preceded it, is meet
ing with good results on a front of
nearly six miles.
Notwithstanding the necessity of
carrying the battle to Crown Prince
Rupprecht across uninviting ground ?
virtually a morass, owing to recent
rains and floods ? and against the in
evitable concrete and steel redoubts
and woods and shell craters teeming
with rapid-fire guns, the English.
Scotch and Australian troops have
-Hatched valuable advantage points
from the Germans, but not without
terrific opposition.
The battle at last accounts was still
raging with the greatly reinforced
Germans who had anticipated the new
thrust, fighting with unusual bitter
ness to hold back further advance or
to recapture terrain already wrested
from them.
Haig's new thrust was delivered
from the base of front line positions
taken and consolidated last week, be
fore which the Germans held numer
ous vantage points of strategic value,
barring the way to further inroads by
the British or for harrassing the
British line by machine gui; or rifle
bullets.
As on previous occasions, Haig
loosed a veritable inferno of artillery
fire against the Germans before
launching his attack in the early hours
of Wednesday morning and when
night fell many important positions
had been ridded of the enemy but with
the Germans at numerous other points
savagely contesting the right-of-way.
Probably the most significant gain
of the British, which the Germans
assert was to a depth of two-thirds
of a mile at certain points, was near
Zonnebeke to within a few hundred
yards of the western outskirts of
which village they penetrated, placing
them about six miles from the rail
way running from Ostend through
Roulers end Roubaix to Lille. The
cutting of this line, which seems to
be the objective of Field Marshal
Haig, would seriously affect the trans
port of the Ostend and Zeebrugge to
the south.
Prior to the land attack British na
val forces heavily shelled Ostend and
again Wednesday afternoon they re
peated the bombardment. Meanwhile
naval airplanes dropped bombs on
towns in Northern Belgium with vis
ibly effective results.
On the other fronts, except in the
Champagne and Verdun sectors of the
line in France no hostilities of im
portance are in progress. Before Ver
dun' the big guns again are roaring
in a mighty duel, evidently the fore
runner of further big infantry opera
tions in the near future. In the Cham
pagne the French are heavily shell
ing the positions of the German
Crown Prince with the German ar
tillerist* answering them energeti
cally.
On the Austro-Italian front the Ital
ians continue to carry out successful
patrol engagements against the Aus
trianB and to drop large quantities of
explosives from airplanes on mili
tary establishments behind the line.
The sinking of British merchant
men by mines and submarines last
week was smaller in the aggregate
number of vessels sent to the bottom
than during any week since Germany
started her intensive submarine cam
paign. In all 15 merchantmen were
destroyed.
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