WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1452, 28 September 1915, Page 3

WAR NEWS.

GREAT BATTUMN THE WEST,

ALLIES ATTACKING

GERMAN LINE DRIVEN BACK

OVER 20.000 PRISONERS TAKEN

London, September 20. Sir John French reports:---Yesterday we captured five miles of trenches south nf La Bassee Canal, penetrating |,ooo yards. We captured boo ynids of trenches at Hooge. Up to the picsenl we have captured seventeen hundred prisoners, eight guns, and several machine guns. Tim High Commi'-Uoner reports London, .September ;?o. There is incieasing confidence in ultimate success. In Artois we maintained during the course of the night all the positions captured yesterday, comprising the Larlenl Plateau and the Sonche/ Cemetery, and the last trenches of the enemy, which we still occupy. These are the last of the fortified positions o( the Neuville labyrinth. In the Champagne district obstinate fighting continues over the whole Iront. The 1* ranch penetrated the German lines on a 25-kllometer front to a depth varying from one to four kilometers. The troops are maintaining all the positions conquered. The number of prisoners actually counted exceeds twelve thousand, Paris, September 26. A communique stales; “We maintained throughout the night our captured positions at Carteul and the Sonche/ Cemetery, also the last of the German trenches eastward of the Labyrinth at Neuville, “There has been obstinate fighting on (he entire Champagne front. We penetrated the German lines on a front of 15}) miles tor a depth of 2 G miles, and captured over 12,000 men. “Our artillery made a successful surprise attack against the enemy’s works in the Lannois region, in Ban de Sapt. “The enemy has suffered heavily from our artillery fire, and in hand-to-hand fighting. The material captured includes twentyfour field guns, sixteen thousand uuwonndni prisoners, and two hundred officers. The prisoners along our whole front in two days’ fighting exceed twenty thousand.”