MASSED ATTACK ON THE FRENCH

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 5

MASSED ATTACK ON THE FRENCH

HOT FIGHT NORTH OF ARRAS ENEMY ENFILADED WITH HEAVY LOSSES Tlie High Commissioner reports j— London., July 4, 4.55 p.m. "North of Arras last night the enemy attacked, in mass formation, our positions from the Angres-Ablain Road to tho north of Aix Noulette-Souehez route. The assailants were repulsed by enfilading fire and mitrailleuses, losing 'heavily. ' \ • ." '*011 the La Hay© front the Germans, after a'violent bombardment to-, wards midnight, tried to attack the, French trenches, but north of Regneville our enfilading :fire did not permit the assault to debouch. ... "Before Sey, a.battalion arrived near our entanglements, ,but was obliged to withdraw." . MUCH-VAUNTED ATTEMPT THAT FAILED GROWN PRINCE'S FIASCO IN THE ARGONNE. (Rec. July 5, 8.25 p.m.) ■; .. . ; . Paris, July 5. Tho Crown * Prince 1 s initial .attempt to fulfil his boast to piereo the-French-line in the Argonne by August 4 fizzled out. It was a formidable attempt. For ton days, between Four do Paris and the Bois de La Grurie, they tried to smash our lines. ; • ■' . ."Tho Crown' Prince concentrated .45,000 troops on four milesof front, and ordered a prodigious expenditure of high oxplosives and asphyxiating shells. He threw his forces day and night against the French trenches, but his only'success was'a footing he.yond the first line, tho Germans failing to reach the second trench.. Our. artillery inflicted terrible losses on tho Wurtcmburgers' massed formation?- - ...... v The Crown Prince's effort cost him at least ten thousand men, but the French losses were not half that. FRENCH OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. . ■ \ (Rec. July 5, 8.25. p.m.) " ■ . T1 Paris, July 5. .Official.—"The mine struggle continues near. Palisy, north of the Aisne. . "There was a combat with grenades and air-torpedoes in the Argonne,' without any infantry' action." .. ■. GERMAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE.. ( ' (Rec. July 5, 8.25 p.m.) . London, July 5. An official communique from Berlin states: —"We continued our offensivo in the Argonne. Tho booty captured on July 1 and 2 totalled 2556 prisoners, 25 machine-gun's, and 12 trsnchrinortars. Tlie French four times fruitlessly attempted to recapture the positions lost near "We captured a French position on tho front of six hundred metres northwest of Regne.ville". „• T • jt. ~ ' "German air-cr.ift droned bombs on the Languarcl Jtort of Harwich, and upon a flotilla of English destroyers, also attacked fortified railway works at Nancy and Dombaslo and the barrier fort at Iteriiiremont. ,