ALLIES CAPTURE TRENCHES NEARARRAS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2390, 20 February 1915, Page 7

ALLIES CAPTURE TRENCHES NEARARRAS

SERIOUS LOSS TO THE ENEMY FORMIDABLE REDOUBT SECURED Paris, February 18. A communique states: We captured a mortar and a hundred bombs in the German .trenches north of Arras. ... . Progress elsewhere is being 'maintained. The Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner :•?— , . London, February 18, 5.45 p.m. Paris reports.— I The success is confirmed of the' attaok rendering the French masters of two lines of trenches north of Arras, occasioning the enemy serious losses. In the Valley of the Aisne and in a section near Reims, artillery fights were decided to the advantago of the French. There has been general progress at other points. We gained four hundred metres north of' Melancourt. . i London, February 19, 5 a.m. Paris reports.—Thursday was no less favourable than the two previous days. Five German attempts to regain the trenches near Roclincourt captured by the Allies on Wednesday were repulsed with several hundred dead. Similar counter-attacks to recover trenches in the region of Souain Perthes-Beausejour failed completely, the Germans being driven back at the point of the bayonet; several hundred being taken, prisoners, who state that the losses in their regiments'amount to a quarter to half the effectives. In the Lorraine region the Allies'carried the Norroy villago and occupied the wliole position. ■ . " The position south of the Sudelle farm in Alsace captured by the Allies on Wednesday, constituted.a formidable redoubt, as guns, hundreds of rifles, and' quantities of ammunition were taken. FIVE FUTILE EFFORTS TO. RECAPTURE TRENCHES. (Reo. February 19, 11.30 p.m.) Paris, February 19. Official.—We have had another, favourable day. The Germans at Malinoourt made five attacks to recapture trenches taken yesterday, but all were repulsed, the enemy leaving several hundred corpses. Similar eiforts were made to recapture trenches lost on February 16 and 17 at Souain, Perthes, and Beausejour; the French drove back the assailants with the bayonet, capturing three guns and taking several hundred prisoners. The prisoners stated that some regiments had lo6t a fourth to S?lf . their effectives. . •' , • . •_ i ' We assaulted and captured the village of Norroy m Lorraine.'