Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-30
FRENCH CAPTURE ABLAIN, ROUTING
 GERMAN FORCES Paris Report Says Young Troopers Annihilated
 Three Companies.
TEUTONS' ATTACK
 BETRAYS WEAKNESS
JOffre's Forces Completely Overwhelm Prussians in Most Terrific Conflict Yet Waged on the Arras.LeBas.
 see Sector in West.

London; May 29.-The French have captured Ablain St. Naza:re. the vil- lage for which they have been fighting : from house to house for the past ten days.
 The official French report from Paris tonight says:
 "We are now masters of the entire village. The battle was hard-fought We annihilated or put to flight three German companies"
 North of Arras the French have also made further progress, and street fighting of the character which 1 finally has resulted in the French | mastery of the Germans at Ablain is proceeding vigorously at Neuvelle St. | Vast.
 French Attacks Repulsed. The German report states that the French attacks at Angres, where yes terday the French claimed further progress, were repulsed, number of the French remaining prisoners in the hands of the kaiser's forces. Claims are made by Berlin that French at tacks also were repulsed at the east ern edge of the Ablain wood, in the fighting south of Souchez and also to the southeast of Neuvelle.
 In La Pretre woods, also, according to the Berlin statement, the German fire broke up French assault before it could be put under way.
 An official review of the operations which resulted in the French capture of the wood of Le Pretre says: Complete success has been obtain ed after seven months of continuous fighting. The final phase of tie fight ing necessitated the destruction of the German subterranean forts by artillery, their position then being seized at the bayonet's point by young soldiers of the 1915 class, who charged the German works with magnificent dash.'
 Details of the battle at Ablain show it to have been one of the most ter- rife yet waged on the Arras-LeBas- see sector of the western front. ] Germans Overwhelmed. The final hours of the fight tell a story of an overwhelming force slow ly beating down an army of stubborn defenders and finally crushing them or driving them in rout from their stronghold. The last effort of the Germans was made during the night, l when they directed a strong cou.iter l attack against the French trenches across the middle of the village. This attack betrayed the weakness of tile Teutous. for it failed almost as soon as it was begun, the Germans falling 1 back to their starting point, thell first line of trenches. ., 1 At the German retirement, the French commander ordered an lmme' djate attack, Advancing in an impet- mons wave. the French swarmed the intervening houses and then reach' cd the Germans first line trenches digging the invaders out with bayone' and hand grenades. The Germans contested the advance with determina t;on. fighting like mad men, but the French would not longer he denlee
 the prize for which they mad peer
 fighting for nearly fortnight, ah' swept on. overwhelming in gallan
 charge the supporting trenches Of thu Germans and taking finally the las
 house on the edges of the town.
 Both reports deal with aerial ex
 n,oits Berlin states that German air
 men bombarded the fortifications 0 the towns of Gravelines. Dunklrk an'
 Fismes. as we'll as the aerodome q
 st Omer. Paris reports that Ger
 man aeroplane was brought uowl
 near Thioucourt. near Laslshy' "'i
 caught fire as it fell.