Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-16 | Page 16 | Claim Failure of British on the Flanders Front

- CLAIM FAILURE OF BRITISH ON THE FLANDERS FRONT RFyRLIN, Dec. J , via Tendon. An official of-ficial communication from general head- i ouarters. making reference to the front 1 of Crown Prince Knpprecht in Flan- j ders, says: Kor over four weeks the British 1 have discontinued their attacks In Flanders, Their violent offensive, which had for its objective possession posses-sion of the Flanders coast and de-slructlou de-slructlou of our submarine bases, may, therefore, be considered closed for t lie present. Nearly the whole English army, reinforce re-inforce by the French, has for over t hree tuont lis struggled with our army in Flanders to obtain a decision. 1 1 ere. also. German leadership and vierman troops have been victorious, while at other points we have crushed the enemy hy mighty blows. The failure of the British army in Flan-t- tiers ha s been accent ua t ed by the heavy defeat which It suffered at Oa iti brni. Western theater, front of Crown Prince Rupprecht : North of t'ihelu-! t'ihelu-! velt t wo officers a nd forty-fi ve men i were laKen orisoner as the result of : a successful raid on the ICnslish lines I near Poozelhoek. Ar Unglish coun- I ter-at lack la unched at nip ht to re- , capture the lost ground broke down. l-'rom the Scarce tn i lie Olse the enemy en-emy artillery fire is live'y. At evening, eve-ning, in the irish I and morning heavy surprise firing attacks were directed against our positions. U was observed I hat an Huglish at- tacV was being p-epard e.'-t t':;.!c,-(ji;r-i. Its ' : 1 ' ' i 1 ! '"'ti 'as pre-vntwl pre-vntwl bv our destructive fire. r'.-.. ;,t (: fjrand T' :ke Albrecht: Tn I't; vall'-v of file Thann we w;ird.-l off an attack by a sr !.! French rc-c'jr;pfii rc-c'jr;pfii tel'iliL.' dctaclliiient. l";.-i-terri i:..-ater: A' mi-!'- ro-flatifitis ro-flatifitis ronriiiue. In Macedonia there ,vre iiiihui" cirj.'iii'jim-r.is. j