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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2463, 17 May 1915, Page 5

LATE NEWS

THE BATTLE OF CARENCY

HOW THE FRENCH CARRIED THE DAY

(Rec. May 16, 8 p.m.) Paris, May 16. Official.—Two thousand Germans wer* taken prisoner at Carency, which. waa defended by four lines of trenches. Even' house was fortified,. 6ubterraiW ean passages connecting fie cellars.) Caroncy 'had been a dangerous salient! throughout the winter. Prior to the infantry attack on' Majj 9, twenty thousand projectiles shafc. tired Carency. The French then rushed up, with furious elan, and captured three lines of trendies. They re-at* tacked on May 10,. when companies cleverly advanced in small groups, but; carried away by the ardour of .the. fight, advanced beyond the limits,.they were' ordered to cover, and crossed the Sanchez road. , : Thoy lost - rather seriously, and wore ■ unable to maintain! themselves on the'border' of the road.Tho problem.on May, 11 wasto destroy a trcnch which. enabled the berinans to pass any locality in absolute security. After • the fight, the. French captured a. wood east of itli6,,yilia.£e, preventing the Germans from using the The enemy still held the Ablainißoad, but we gradually enoircled Carency, byj converging attacks from "the east, viai Hill 125, and west, where we cama against a vast quarry, 250 feet, deep* containing a complete fort, with case-* mates and cave shelters: Here tha enemy resisted for two hours, with remarkable obstinacy. Tie French were aflame with* determination -to win, flfld at' the cost of heavy losses, the slope? were finally crowned. A thousand' Bavarians, .Saxons, ana Badeners surrendered, all tired and de-< jected, but hostile. Their officers, however, remarked? "Your firing is mathematical, and youif infantry advanosd so. quickly that it was impossible to resist."