FRENCH ADVANCE IN ALSACE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2573, 22 September 1915, Page 5

FRENCH ADVANCE IN ALSACE

GERMANS ALARMED HUGE LOSSES IN LA FECHT REGION Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times" and' Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, September 20. The Germans are displaying alarm becauso they aro unable to stem the French advance in Alsace. Workmen aro continuously constructing new defence trenches, which extend almost to the l Swiss frontier. •Tlio German losses during the attempts to retake the heights on the Upper Fecht River, tho period occupied being three weeks, totalled fifty thousand. NEW CERMAN RAILWAY 1 IN , BELCIUM. Amsterdam, September 20. The Germans are vigorously pushing forward a new railway, working night and day, between Aix-la-Chapelle and Brussels, via Vise. It is practically a straight line, planned regardless of private property or of natural obstacles. ENEMY'S SUPPLY ROUTES AFFECTED. EFFECT OF THE ALLIES' HEAVY BOMBARDMENTS. London, September 20. \ A Paris- communique*, in recording the heavy bombardments, mentions the hampering-of tho enemy's supply arrangements at Artois, and the shelling of tho enemy's- revictualling routes in Lorraine. BOMBARDMENT OF BELCIAN COAST. Amsterdam, September 20. A German communique states: "The enemy's, ships bombarded Westende and Middelkerke without result. They withdrew when struck by our fire."-