Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — Ally Drive Alarms Kaiser. [ARTICLE]

Ally Drive Alarms Kaiser.

London, Aug. 3.—“ Hold your lines at any cost.” This command was given to Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, commanding the German forces in Flanders, when the war council of German military and naval leaders, summoned by the Kaiser, met in Brussels yesterday, said a dispatch from Amsterdam today. Amsterdam, Aug. 3.—A war council extraordinary of all the high military and naval leaders of Germany, summoned by Emperor William, is in session at Brussels today. The Kaiser has hurried back from the Russian front to attend the council. At last reports hb was at Riga wacthing and . complimenting his troops for their operations on the northern sector of the eastern line. It is a peculiar fact that the war chiefs summoned to the Brussels counsel are those whose operations are conducted on the western front. The Haig drive is a menace to the German army along the Belgian coast and the council will have to determine whether that menace is being effectually met. London, Aug. 3.—ln the fog, rain and bogs of Flanders the British crushed out a series of counter attacks which began in the morning and continued throughout the afternoon. Besides putting down the desperate onslaughts, Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig reports that his line has been advanced. He has retaken St. Julien and has re-established his front from that place to the YpresRoulers railway, the high water mark of his advance in Tuesday’s great drive. Despite the storms, which have transformed the low-lying land into marshes, the British drum fire, indicative of a resumption of the drive, was renewed from the A ser to the Lys.