Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-10-08
GERMANS FAIL
TO halt ALLIES
French Win More Ground al
ViIay Heights.
iID SENT TO CEO|Hi'ii OWN PRINCE
Seventh cay of Great Battle Shows
Fighting still Favors the Anglo
French Offensive Operations.

German counter attacks launched
during the night in Chami asEe ana IN
die A.soi5 d:st.i-t il elor.s to regain
tie positions captured by the allies
we're rcnu:sed, the French war office
2rnou1Cei-
The Official statement shows that
the fighting, now in its seventh day.
is proc eeding under conditions favor
able to the allies, despite the fact that
Trey are being assailed by Germanys
finest troops, including the famous
t'russia0 guard.
In the great battle in Artois the
French have made further progress by
means Of attacks with hand grenadej
on German trenches, according to the
Paris war office. In the Champagne
district a German counter attack near
Maisons de Champagne was checEed'
The Germans violently bombarded'
French trenches near Soupir, north OF
tie Aisne, but made no infantry at
tack. i.
The Berlin war office, however, says
the British have ceased their attacks
and the Germans have made further
progress north of Loos, near Lens. All
French attacks east Of Souchez, north
OF Neuville and III the Champagne,
failed, it Is further stated.
The French are bearing the brunt
cf the fighting now in progress on the
western front. They are hammering
1t the second German line in Cham
pagne, in the direction Of the Grand
Pre- railway, and at the same time
dropping bombs on@the line and sta
items to prevent the Germans from
bringing up reinforcements. Absence
Of news from the British front lndt
Gates that these forces are occupied
with consolidating their positions in
territory recently won.
The British forces now in France
are estimated at round million men,
which will be increased by 100000.
Daily lengthening Of the obituary col
umns of the London newspapers is be-
ginning to measure the price paid by
the British for their recent offensive
In the Argonne the German crown
princes army has been battered so
badly that part of the army of Gen.
eral Won Strantz has been sent to stlf'
fen it.
The booty captured in the firstrush|
OF the forward movement is growing
rapidly as the work of counting is
completed and the seriousness OF the
German losses is now clear, The
number of field and heavy guns taken
in Champagne alone totals 121.
A bombardment of unusual inten'
sity, directed against the newly won
positions in Artois, has failed COM
p,etely to dislodge the French troops
or even to shake the security of their
hold. The latest entrenchments taken
in this sector on the heights between
SoucheZ and Vimy are being planted
with heavy batteries.
With the German second line pierc'
ed at several points, great battle is
raging in Champagne, west Of the Ar
gonne, with the railway from Chal
lerarge to BaZancourt as its stake.
Upon this road the kaiser's troops.
from Rheims to the Ar3onne, depend
for their supplies.
All eyes now are fiEed on the region
around Lens, where the Franco-Br;t'
ish pincers are closing in slowly and
irresistibly upon the Germans. This
district is known as Frances "black
country" Lens being the Heart Of the
coal mining industry.
The clearing out process is makin7
great headway eastward OF Lco5,
which lies north of Lens. The British,
have pushed forward a coasiderabl;
distance on La Rassee roal and now
occupy the entire oval OF tie piatea
Of which Hill No. r., three miles from
Lens, is the eliminating point. Thus
they dominate both the city and the
plain. Tie French, advancing from
Souchez, have carried Hill No. 140,
a position Of capital Importance, about
five miles to tha snuth