Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 2 | Germans Unable to Counter Attack

"Hurricane Fire" the Latest Term Applied by the Teuton General Staff to the Terrific and Continuous Bombardment Bom-bardment by British Guns on the Western Front. LONDON, Oct. 6 Field Marshal Haig's report toniglit from head- " quarters in France, says that the ' artillery was active all day along the whole battle front, but no counter-attacks developed. Additional Addi-tional prisoners to the number of 380 were taken in the last twenty-four twenty-four hours. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 6. The German Ger-man tfeueial staff has been foreej to invent a new term ' hurricane fire" for the terrific, and continuous bombardment bombard-ment with which the latest battle in riuiulers was inaugurated. The day when the term ''drumfire" represented represent-ed the culmination of artillery activity activ-ity litis lun passed. The army authorities next introduced the term "whirlwind fire" to de-M-ribe a preater degree of intensity, :md now have gone to the West Indian tempests for a simile in describing the ; wt'ul night of Wednesday's and Thurs-. Thurs-. lav's tempest of fire. The reason tb.o Germans are slow in iaunehing the counter-attacks called for i.v "Field Marshal von Hindenburg's methods in an efofrt tp regain the important im-portant heights lost in the Ypres sector sec-tor on Thursdav may be found in a description bv .Lieutenant General von Ardcnne, military expert of the Tage-bhit.t Tage-bhit.t of Berlin of the curtain of .fire through which the German storming troops hod to nass in the buttle uf September Sep-tember 20. Tli is a participant compared com-pared to a waterfall. It could be penetrated pene-trated on Iv by watching falling shells and sprinting forward in short dashes, each rvan for himself, immediately after a shell hurst, chancing xho liability that another would drop in the same plftee. All who fell had to bo left on the ground.