South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-02-19
CHAMP ACNE IS
BLOOD DRENCHED
Home Of Simple Grape Growers
Has Become Seat of Most
Sanguinary Fighting of the
War-French Make Gains.

LONDON. Feb. 10. - Champagne. 7
oncc the home OF simple grape grow
ers. has become the seat OF the blood
lest fighting o. inc war. according TO
official reports from both Berlin and
Paus IhuEsday uishL
rrOm end 40 emu the province is
literally soaked ~ 4Oou There are
Constant aItl4llTy dues. but rifles are
nov bat Lite used. Inc opposing
lines ale so clos ~ each other that
mos oil the fIsAUAs Is uOue with the
bay Onet.
The offensive campaign which the
French bean three days ago is still
being Continued, charge after charge
being ordered ali through the dist let
with the result, according TO Paris,
that the Germans a4l being driven
steadily back. Long lines OF trenches
helu rs the Germans have been taken.
il Is claimed, the losses OF the enemy
being rarely less than % per cent
ana sometimes more than so per cent.
According TO stories reported TO have
been told by men wAO have been
taken prisoners, the terrific losses
sustained by the Germans are Caus-
ing them to become disheartened.
Admit Success.
Berlin practically admits the sue
cess OF the French in Champa gne.
that the fighting is continuing.
North of Champagne from the sea
70 the Aisne the lighting has resolved
itself into a titanic effort on the part
Of the Germans To regain the trenches
anG territory lost during the past
three days and a stubborn holding on
by the Germans in the face Of a
whitening fire from machine guns and
heavy artillery. and all through the
day there was fierce hand TO hand
fighting. In one instance near Roclin-
court, where the French "Wednesday
took a line Of trenches five separate
attacks were made by the enemy in
an effort TO retake them.
The German officers are neverthe-
less driving their men back 10 the
attack without let-up for the reports
tell Of repeated German charges all
along the line. The main German eff
fort is being directed against the
trenches in the region of Souain,
Perthes and BeausejOur. Many of the
attacks have been made under cover
of darkness. but the French declare
all were not only repulsed, but three
MitrailieuseS and several hundred
prisoners were taken.
According to Paris the Germans
were driven back pen nell. leaNIEs
hundreds Of their dead, including
many officers, lying on the fields.
Here again Berlin is evasive. stating
merely that the Germans continue on
the offensive and that they have
taken a large number of prisoners.
The assumption of the offensive by
the French in the Argonne south of
Champagne has been fatal, according
TO Berlin, which reports steady and
bloody repulses of every attack by
the enemy, particularly near BOur-
eauilles and VaquOise, to the east OF
Verdun- Without offering any ex-
PLANTATION, however. - is stated that
the village of NOrrOy - the north of
POnt-a-MOusson and height No. 365
the occupancy OF which has cost hun
dreds of lives on both sides. as a re
suit OF a long series of charges an.
cOunter-attacks. have both been
evacuated
Germans Driven Out.
Paris has a different story TO tel
about these points. Instead OF beine
evacuated the French claims the
Germans were driven out through g
series Of brilliant charges and artil-
lery fire that raided both. Proof OF
the fact that the enemy was driver
from height No. 365, which lies south
OF Soudell farm, Paris declares that
the French soldiers found IT to be q
formidably organized fort. Souttel
was the rout of it's German occupants
It is claimed that they threw down
their guns and fed in terror. leaving
behind a bomb thrower. a number OF
bombs and bomb shields, all sorts OF
tools barbed wire meshes, telephone
instruments. thousands of cartridges
and sand bags and five Mitrailleuses