Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — BRITONS HOLD ALL GAINS [ARTICLE]

BRITONS HOLD ALL GAINS

USUAL COUNTER ATTACKS ARE LACKING EXCEPT FOR WEAK SPASMS. With the British secure in all the positions they won Thursday along the more than eight-mile front of the Ypres sector in Flanders, Field Marshal Haig’s men were busy Friday consolidating their newly won positions and preparing for another hack into the German lines when the time becomes propitious. Nothing but the dropping of shells from German guns served to interrupt the breathing spell the British were taking, except here and there small counter-attacks which lacked the usual strength the Germans employed in endeavoring to regain lost ground. In addition to the enormous casualties inflicted on the Germans, the British captured 4,446 prisoners in Thursday’s attack, o among them 114 officers.

Comparative quiet prevails on all the other battle fronts. The artillery duels between the French and the Germans on the Verdun sector and in Champagne continue, and at several points in the latter sector General Petain’s forces again have repulsed surprise attacks delivered by troops of the German crown prince. Apparently the Teutonic allies in Rumania, after several weeks of virtual inactivity, again are preparing tn attempt to force back the .Russo-. Rumanian line. The Russians have been forced to sustain an offensive near Radsutz while near the Buzeu river attacks by Bulgarian troops have been defeated. Admission is made in the latest V ienna official communication that the Italians were successful in winning .trenches from the Austrians on the western slope of Monte San Gabriele in the Gorizia sector but it is assured that heavy losses were sustained by them. ’ - In Russia a coalition cabinet has premier, notwithstanding the demand of the democratic congress . that no government should be constituted without the sanction of the congress. Meanwhile further trouble has broken out in Turkestan, where a revolutionary movement was started in the early week but later was suppressed. The Russian government las now declared that a state of war exists in this region.