Five German regiments attempted and failed to take the remaining ground of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, suffering 3,000 casualties in the effort. Foggy weather conditions and bad artillery accuracy contributed to the defeat.
Game 1.
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The French Tenth Army and the BEF launched offensive attacks on the Western Front. The main focus was a British effort at Loos and Champagne. The British used gas for the first time in their efforts, and the British New Army, newly recruited volunteers, were committed to action for the first time.
The British also assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
Lord Kitchener demanded the redeployment of two British divisions and one French one from Gallipoli to Greece.
Former Princeton football standout Johnny Poe was killed in action at age 41 while serving in the British Army.
Poe was a restless soul who had served in the National Guard prior to the Spanish American War and hoped to see action in it. He did not, so after briefly working as a cowboy, he joined the Army and served in the Philippine Insurrection. He subsequently joined the Marine Corps in hopes of seeing action in Panama, but did not. He was briefly a soldier of fortune in Central America thereafter.
The Ogden Standard posed a question.
