St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 18, 1916
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Hes ee lia oe a MONDAY EVENING, ‘SEPTEMBER pe 1916. es Ig % “ pee ya it: “A te a her ea . 5 ieee ¥ x : D + 1 ‘ 4 ‘~ —- * ae e > * er ae see a pS — @ovillers, south of the river Somme, is reported in today’s official statement. North of the river, the statement says, | thé fighting developed favorably to the ‘Germans ALLIES REINFORCED IN EAST RUMANIA. Forces Have Taken Up New Lime Across Dobrudja. . * BERLIN, via London, Sept. 18.—The allied (entente) forces in Eastern Ru- mania have received reinforcements, the War Office announced today. They have taken up a line across Dobrudja, a few miles south of the railroad running from Constanza to the Danube. soeeee: British Naval Acroplanes Raid Aero- domes at St. Denis and Westrehem. . LONDON, Sept. 18.—A raid by British naval aeroplanes on German aerodromes at St. Denis and Westrehem is reported in an official statement issued by the War Office. The statement says: “Yesterday afternoon a squadron of our naval aeroplanes carried out a fur- ther attack on enemy aerodromes at St. Denis and Westrehem. A large nutm- beP-of bombs were dropped with suc- cessful result. One of our machines was obliged to make a forced landing in Holland and the pilot has been in- terned.” How Mackensen Is Said to Have De- | feated‘Entente Forces in Dobrudja. AMBTERDAM, Sept. 18-—Details of : Yield Marshal von Mackensen’s victory over the Russians and Rumanians in the Dobrudja district are given in a copy of the Berlin Vossische Zeitung received here. The paper says: “A German division moving along the Danube east of Silistria drove back a Rumanian division upon the Russians who formed the right and center of the line. The Germans then got on the flank of the Russians and at the same time German and Bulgarian cavalry, operating on the German right, drove a Servian @ivision back along the rail- road. Thus Field Marshal Mackensen’s troops formed the letter U with the Russians, Servians and _Rumanians crowded within the loop. “The Russians held their front for some time until Mackensen concentrat- ed his forces on them and their resist- ance collapsed.”’ The Rester Lioyd says: ‘The battle of Dobrich, which cleared Mackensen’s right flank, lasted three days and nights. The Rumanian forces came up only on the third day. The vrunt of the fighting was maintained by the Rus- gians and the Servians."’ Gen. von Haensch Retired. | UBRLIN, via London, Sept. 18.—Ac- ; cording to the Frankfurter Zeitung, the commander of the Fourteenth German army corps, Lieutenant-General von Hiaensch, bas becn placed on the retire‘! z list, Danish Steamer Sank. LONDON, Sept. 18-—A Llioyd’s§ dis- pateh from Copenhagen announces that thé Danish steamer J. N. Madvig of . L784 tons ’ ee * * has been sunk. The crew » olan for City to “Lease Eads Bridge . to Come Up Friday Continued From Page One. Terminal yards between Twelfth and fourteenth streets. At this station the tains would be picked up by electric SoQmotives and taken through the tun- over the Eads Bridge to the | Relay Depot in Bast St. Louis. | Entry for More Traine. ' n trains entering East S&t, tepulg aleo would be brought into Bt. dts 3 electric engines and have their t 6 at the station on this side. Comptroller Player today referred to Smith's @uggestions as “ridiculous."’ He said that instead of leasing another bridge, the city should lease the free netcge to the Terminal of other rallroad iterests for a sufficient amount to cover ual cost of the bridge's upkeep. a stupendous blunder to buill ? bridge,”’ said Comptroller Play- on “and we would be only magnifying that blunder if we leased another bridge and built other connections which would only add to the Terminal’s present facil- ities, We have the biggest and best system of terminals to be found any- Where, and there is ho reason why ths ate should go into the railroad busi- 2 ” wane a} Y % a +“ » nea Dietiliery Buraed. Ind., Sept. .18%—Fire today the Murphy Distillery with a BRITISH AGAIN CAPTURE AND HOLD POSITION WHICH [raiicr eERMANS 10 THEY HAD LOST TWICE ee ae f Celler Doors Blown in on Germans Who Refused to Surrender at Moquet Farm— “Danube” Trench Taken. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, Sept. 18—The British today took the Mouquet farm. On two for- mer occasions they had been on the premises, but were unable to remain there. It was a strong point on the right of the British battle line, where a garrison of Germans and their ma- chine guns seemed to be proof against shell fire. ; . They had the usual deep cellars and runways underground and, driven from one exit by shell fire, they would emerge from another. The British got entirely around their burrows and called down the cellar stairs for them to surrender. The Germans thought that a counter attack would come to their assistance as before. The British, however, as- sured them that none would come, as they had the trench all the way around the farm to prevent thelr exit of the Gerinans or aid coming to them. Cellar Doors Blo:vn In. Still the Germans refused to yield, and the final result of this grim collo- quy was that the British blew in all the cellar doors. Such persistent dic- gers.are the Germans, however, that the British are not certain they did not have some undergroutid passage for escape. The British also cleaned up the “Danube” trench. in the old German first line near Thiepva!l, which is the hinge of the Somme battle line. As hap- pened before and after the fierce general attack along the whole front, the suc- ceeding days are spent in rectifying the line and cleaning up any strong points that still hold out. The German official report of Friday’s battle made peculiarly interesting read- ing here. It spoke of repulsing an En- glish attack on Combles. The corre- spondent happened to be at that end of the line, where he could observe the ac- tion, and no British infantry moved on Combles. Smail bodies of British infantry have been in the villages of Lesboeufs and Gueduecourt, beyond Flere, which was taken Friday, and the British line is now close to these villages. Estimate Ratio of Lossés. Talking with officers of corps en- gaged tn the fighting of the last three days, they egtimate the losses from two to one to five to one for the Germana against those of the British. In one sector the ratio was estimated at as high as eight to one. The superior volume of the British shell fire, now that the Ger- mans are forced into the open, has a telling effect. The demoralization of the German in- fantry Friday by the use of the new armored motor cars, called ‘‘tanks,"’' was freely confessed by prisoners with whom the correspondent of thc Associated Press taiked. “There was no standing against that sort of thing,’’ said one German officer. “Of course, we surrendered—those vf us who were alive. We fired at a tank with our rifles. Our machine guns turned loose on it. But the bullete’*w re only blue sparks on the armor. We thought the British slow and stupid, despite their courage and stubbornness, and they gave us a surprise like this.” There seems to be no question that Friday was the most dramatic day s0 far in the history of the British army ia France. The Germans themsglves were mas.s- ing at several points, it appears, with a view to attempting attacks to recover some of the high ground they lost. The British anticipated the German attack with their own onslaughts, assisted by their new hell machines, whose secret they had been keeping up their sleeves for such an occasion as this. The Germans had massed large num- bers of men in their front trenches These wére not only caught by the sur- prise of the sudden blast of the early morning concert of the British guns. preceding the charge of the British in- fantry, but were raked by machine gun fire from the ‘‘tank cars.’’ As the Ger- mans were in new trenches, which they had built as best they could under the continual shell fire, and as they had no dugouts and could find no shelter, they were subjected to as murderous enfilade from the tank cars. Despite German discipline and the bravery, at many points mob confusion prevailed among those in the front lines. Some attempted to surrender, though. surrender seetned Impossible aepinet seh etry WON. SG ae. ty '.¥ see of Walien's Ent Man ture of Valier's Enterprise iL a Yasiecs Resressise a OR STA es Newspaper cli | headlines of this - “young Eastern pl x ™ from Seattle » Identity of men > apesbling fraterni The story then au efforts to get _ had been fruitless 4 “& bet. 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