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Show Germans in New Retreat and Entire II Line May Soon Be Turned By French I LONDON, Oct. 28. British troops Sunday repulsed & determined German effort to drive them from Famars south of Valenciennes, Field Marshal Haig reports today; Many Germans were killed in street fighting in villages. On the borders of the Mormal forest, south of Valen-1 Valen-1 ciennes and north of the Raismes forest and north of Valenciennes the British have improved their positions 'slightly. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF : VERDUN, Oct. 28, 3 p. m., by The Associated Press. American long range guns this , afternoon began firing on Longuyon. i LONDON, Oct. 28. British troops, in their offensive' : on the Austro-Italian front up to last night, had captured more than 5,600 prisoners, according to an official statement issued' today by the war office. The British also captured twenty-: twenty-: nine guns, including six nine-inch howitzers. LONDON, Oct. 28. General Ludendorff resigned as, first quartermaster-general because the military authorities , were placed under civil control. The retiring general, an Exchange Ex-change Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen adds, has re- , turned to great headquarters to take leave of the army and , field Marshal von Hindenburg remains as chief of the ; army. Enemy Aircraft Busy LONDON, Oct. 2S The enemy's aircraft were busy on Saturday" in the ; north battlefield, says a statement on aerial operations. Eight enemy airplanes air-planes were destroyed and three dis- ; '-ablcd in the fighting. Two enemy bal-Joons bal-Joons were shot down. Nine of our machlnos aro missing. New Ukranlan Ministry AMSTERDAM Oct. 28-A now Ukranlan Ukran-lan ministry has been formed with M. LIsogub as premier, says a dispatch il from Kiev received today. II Minister to Resign Il LONDON, Oct. 28 The London cor-11 cor-11 respondent of the Liverpool Post ex-II' ex-II' rpects Lord Beavorbrook to resign from If jthe ministry of information, not nllo-1 nllo-1 igcther owing to the state of his health It Ibut because ho is disappointed with il the position the department not having j developed as he had hoped. If LONDON, Oct. 28 The British of-I of-I ficlal war statement reads: LI "A determined counter-attack was jl made yesterday on Famars and was repulsed after street fighting in which ! many of the enemy were killed. I "Wc have improved our positions ft slightly on the borders of the Mormal a forest and south of the Raismes for-II for-II cst-" h Croatians Masters of Flume If PARIS, Oct 28 German newspapers I (Maintain that mutinous Croatlnn J troops aro still masters of the city of l Tlume in spite of official statements U (that they wore under control. t "According to tho Zurich correspon-l correspon-l dent of the Journal, the Croatians If. lave driven the Hungarians from the It City. I INTENSE FIGHTING IN ITALY. ; VIENNA, Oct. 28. Between the Brenta and tho Piave Intense fighting ' jcontlnued throughout Sunday, according accord-ing to tho war office statement issued today. The Italians were" driven back , in tho region ofCol Cnprllle. " BRITISH ADVANCE : IN MESOPOTAMIA LONDON, Oct. 28. Tho British advancing ad-vancing in Mesopotamia have cut the ( roada from Sherghet to Mosul, one. of too principal Turkish lines of commu-r commu-r tiication. This probably will force the t Turks to fall back on Mosul, j Saxon Ministers Resign f AMSTERDAM. Oct. 28 As a conse-1 conse-1 nuence of tho re -organization of the if Government of tho kingdom of Saxony A two of the ministers have resigned, If tho Saxon State Gazette, has announc-NL announc-NL ed, according to advices frbm Dresden, t t Frctlerlck August has accepted ; tho resignation of the premier and F minister of finance, it Is stated. Y. Maximilian Harden Sarcastic . LONDON, Oct, 28 A Copenhagen :; dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph ..cornpany quotes Maximilian Hnrdon, .tho editor of Die Zukunft of Berlin as ! gWagin aajntervlow with tho Bcr- llngske Tidemlc of Copenhagen: -"We started the war with a dirty trick and all our subsequent victories have beon the results of dishonesty. William II Is a film hero and Germany a vulgar cinematograph show. We sit today on the ruins of thirty years of Hohenzollern policies." More News of Hindenburg ZURICH. Oct. 28 Reports that Field Marshal von Hindenburg has resigned aro printed ;n German newspapers. The Neuste Nachrichten of Dresden says the field marshal has tendered his resignation but that the emperor has not yot decided whether to accept or not. The Frankfort Gazette maintains main-tains that von Hindenburg has not resigned, re-signed, but reports to that effect, it says, aro being circulated by the Pan-Gqrmaus. |
