THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

# fKLKOTUIC TEIiKQIUIMI — COI'fBIGHT.) :)'i£u luiiiss AsyociAiioN. t THE UIUTiSH ADVANCE. London, Sept. 27. Sir John Erencli reportsWu re pulsed a number oi counter-attacks in Hiding heavy enemy losses. Our ofl'eu sive is progressing eastwards of Loos. Our uapiurcfi were o3 oißcors, 2800 men, 18 guns ami 32 machine guns. The enemy abandoned considerable material. J.illi THRUST JL\ THE CHAMPAGNE. i'ans, Sept. ''a--a communique says:—-The enemy has made .only the most ieeble effort against our new positions in Artois. The struggle in the Liianipagne con•tinues without intermission before tie Germans' sccond line. The Allies captures, exceeds 70 guns of which the British took 23. Thy hardest- fighting ■ was near Anijerive. The Germans m the Champagne are peculiarly dependent upon tile cross line of railway between (he Argonne and bezaueourt uniting the Rethol-Vouziors lines along which alone they are able to bring up larc;e and rapid supplies and reinforcements. The French at Auberive are witlnn three miles of the line. The latter also maintains German connection with the hills northward of Bheiins. Judging from the number of prisoners and the German killed and wounded estimated as equalling an army corps, it will b<? difficult for the Germans to bring up reinforcements which can scarcely to spared from other parts, inasmuch as the whole line is sorely tried. This dependence of one region upon another was illustrated on the same front last .March when the French attack on Me.s-nil-Ueausejour compelled the Germans to transfer troops irom the British front., contrihutfng to the British advance at Neuvechappefle. AiOllE RUSSIAN St'CESSES. .L'etrograd, Sept. -8. A communique says:—-Eour Ger.tiaii attacks westward ol N lleylva were repulsed. We captured IUOO uuwounded Germans ami thirteen guns, including live of large calibre. We compelled the enemy neai Oeleatrisehi to fall back with great losses. We surprised an Austrian battalijn at Labusy, on tne Snara, bayonetting a number and taking prisoner 3<il, :-hy remainder being loreed beyond the river Erence. House to house lighting ended in the capture of Sliesnits, m the lower Stokho region, nearly ali'the defend us Oeing killed. Austrian roiniorcements compelled lit; to evacuatc .Novoalcxinatz, but AO counter-attacked with the bayonet anu re-expelled the enemy. "\Ve Killed many and captured 1000. VIA AMSTEIiD.OI. Amsterdam, Sept. 27 A German communique 'saysT-io warships continue to fire isolated shots on the environs of Middlekerke. luo Allies have not renewed attacks southwest of Lille where our counter-attacks arrested a great oilensive. Severe ifso iatod attacks north and south of Loos collapsed with English losses. Attacks on both sides of Arras wero bloodily repulsed. We capture 25 ofliceis, 2GOU men ami 11 machine guns. Ine I'rchcii olteiisive at Uheiuis and m tne Arguune has not pi'ugru»sed. ft is especally severe on tlie roiul between Somniepy and Snipes, also north oi ijeau.se,jour farm where it lailed with very heavy losses. We took prisonei olncers and 3DU men. We shot down three aeroplanes, including the great I'rciich buttle ucropluiic in uu utJinu battle nortn-east ot Ypres and southwest of Lille. Two. Erench aeroplanes were brought down in uiampague. Berlin newspapers nam the public against exaggerating the German check. An Austrian communique says >he llustoians' counter offensive has been broken at Volbynia; they have evac.intcd positions nortli-west oi Hubno an:! ictired near Lutzk. The easterly bridgehead at Lutzk is again in our hands s OX GALLIPOLI. London, Sept. Zi The War Oilice reports that thu recent operations au ueio mainly contined on both sideo to uncrait aLtacks, artillery uombardinouis and some mining. .lhe Turks on occasions sent heavy artillery lire on the Suvla and Anzac fronts, which apparently precluded a general attack, ut only an attack by a small lorco followed upon the right, and centre at Suvia. Our rifle lire easily dispersed the enemy. 'The same tiling happened twico subsequently.