Perth Amboy evening news., 1915-09-27
Greatest Artillery Onslaught of
Any War is Blowing Whole
Sections Of the German
Front to Bits.
GERMAN LOSSES ARE GREAT
Ieut0nS Also Thrown Back in
Russia, the SIavs Recaptur-
ing ToWnS-0ffenSiVe Ex-
tends Over Big Front,
GERMAN LOSSES ARE GREAT
Special by United Press Wire.

Special bJ United Press Wire
London, Sept. 27:-The tide of
war has turned for the allies on
every front. The greatest artillery
onslaught Of any war is blowing
whole sections of the German-Fran-
co-Flanders front to bits. The allies
are smashing their way toward the
railway line by which the Teutons
hold their grip in Belgium and
northern France. The German loss
es in the allied drive that began
Saturday morning already are be-
lieved to total more than 100000
men. The czar has halted the Ger
man offensive in the east. Won Him
denburg has been thrown back in his
attempt to reach the Dvinsk and
Riga. The Russians are on the Of
fensive on two-thirds of the western
battlefront, recapturing villages and
taking many prisoners. The Italian
war Office reports fresh successes.
Dispatches from Athens asserted
Bulgaria, three days ago ready to
| leap into the war with Austro-Ger-
MANS is hesitating.
Newspapers call for moderation on
the part of a wildly enthusiastic
British public today, reporting that
the allies must have suffered heavily
in victorious smashes towards Lens
and in the Champagne and that to-
days official communication may
bring news of serious reverses. They
tainted that the sudden offensive
movement launched Saturday may
mean only a feeling out of German
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fensive, and that the present attacks
may cease before tonight.
Dispatches from Paris and from
Dutch points said that the ii -gr = na1s
ties from Paris northward TO the
sea and in the Champagne ragged
without interruption Sunday and Sum
day night and are continuing Thou
sands of dead and wounded lie among
the burning ruins of Souchez, now en-
tirely in French hands. Others lie
buried on the slopes of Hill 10, cap
tured by the British. German traneh-
es captured by the French in the
Champagne region are choked with
mangIed bodies Germans are rush
ing new divisions to Belgium to meet
the combined Anglo-French attack on
the railroad center of Lens.
Throughout Sundays early hours
German guns poured frightful fire up
4 the British positions on the heights
west of the town. The enemy poured
a heavy stream of shells over the
summit and down the western slopes
to prevent the British bringing up
guns for a bombardment on Lens.
German reinforcements rushed to
the western battlefront today and
plussed weak spots in the Teuton
lines and have Stacked the momen-
tum of the Anglo-French advance,
but the most desperate efforts of the
kaiser's generals have been unable
to stem entirely the allied on
slaughts according to official Paris
dispatches. The battle south Of
Lens and in the Champagne regions
the Germans have held up the
French charges in wide fronts this
afternoon communication states,
but despite this stubborn resistance
midway between Arras and Lens the
allies have made important progress.
The positions captured Saturday
from the French have been retaken
in this region.
Since the French occupied Arras,
October 2, 1914, they have made de-
termined efforts to reach the railway
leading from Paris to Douai, the
German supply base. Paris COM
munications report French troops
have fought their way over the Ar
ras-Lille highway and are but six
miles from this railroad.