Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — ALLIES STILL GAIN [ARTICLE]

ALLIES STILL GAIN

BRITISH ADVANCE IN YPRES AND, LENS SECTORS. 32,000 Prisoners Have Been Captured This Month by Allies—Austrians to Flee Trieste. London, Aug. 24. —Further gains, by British troops are reported from the Ypres and Lens sectors, with the Canadians, particularly the men from Manitoba, distinguishing themselves. So far in the month of Augtist the allies on western fronts have taken 32,500 prisoners. Maj. Gen. F. B. Maurice of the London war pffice predicts that the total will reach 40,000 before the month ends. » At Verdun the French, whose prisoners to date total 7,639, have made no further infantry attacks. The ground they now hold includes some of the most important positions of their old line as existing before the German Verdun drive of 1916. Le Mort Homme and hill 304 are among them, but not yet hill 304. At Lens the Canadians have worked their way farther into the environs of the coal city, ami in Belgium, near Ypres, Field Marshal Haig’s men have been victorious in a two-days’ battle, making gains over their front varying in depth from half a mile to a few hundred yards, notwithstanding the tenacious resistance of the legions of Crown Prince Rupprecht. On both the northern and southern ends of tile battle line in the AustroItalian theater the Italians have pressed forward their line for considerable new gains against the Austrians. The counter-attacks of the Austrians are of the most extreme violence, but nowhere have they been able to dislodge the Italians. An instance of this is the holding for three days under most vicious counterstrokes of a strong Austrian position captured southeast of Dosso Faith More than 16,000 prisoners already have been taken by the Italians. Petrograd admits a retreat of Russian troops in the north, where the Germans appear to be making some headway in their drive toward Riga.