Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1917 — BRITISH REPULSE SEVEN ATTACKS [ARTICLE]

BRITISH REPULSE SEVEN ATTACKS

Germans Thrown Back With Heavy Losses. 1,614 TEUTONS CAPTURED a • ■ Allies Hold Their New Line—Australians Are Pressing Foes Hard, and Open Plains Are in Sight. London. Sept. 28.—The report from Field Marshal Haig refers only briefly to the operations In Flanders. Seven powerful hostile counter-attacks, It says, were repulsed with heavy losses, and 1,614 Germans were taken prisoner. Heavy Fighting Continues. British Front in France and Belgium, Sept. 28.—The British are maintaining their new line strongly. The main battle during the day was in the neighborhood of Caineron House, south of the eastern extremity of Polygon wood, where the Australians are pressing the Germans hard. The situation as a whole is virtually unchanged. Northwest of Zonnebeke heavy fighting continues in the region of the elevations which dominate a considerable extent of territory. From the British standpoint the situation resulting from the offensive is exceedingly satisfactory. The ridge over which the fighting is now in progress is virtually all that separates the allies from the plains of Flanders. Although the official German communications lately have bedft claiming British defeats or discounting the advances made, the desperate resistance of the Germans is an indication of the vital significance of the recent allied gains. German officers taken prisoner admit the seriousness of the situation for their country. Counter-Attacks Fail. London, Sept. 28. —The fighting in the afternoon and evening along the front of the new' British attack in the Yprea sector was exceedingly severe, says the official statement. The Germans made four vain counter-attacks In great strength. British seaplanes again dropped many tons of bombs on German military establishments in Belgium on Tuesday night. French Repulse Foe Thrice. Paris, Sept. 28. —Two German attacks along the Chemln des Dames' were repulsed by the French, the war office announces. The Germans sustained heavy losses. An enemy surprise attack in the neighborhood of Beaumont, on the right bank of the Meuse, failed under French fire.