, 1915-10-16

over O,UOO Su6llS BuNIDS - AlCN, phA
there is ecnrcely y whole house standing,
A French cficial conmunique states: Eve
have pelceptibIy progressed in the wood
west of the road from Soucbtz to Angres,
III the Souchtz valley and east of the block
house in the Givenchy wood, and we have
also gained ground on the ridges toward
la Folle, where we captured 100 prisoners
from the Guards Corps. In the Champagne
We have progressed north Of TahuIe and car
lied 10y II vigorous attack the whole German
fortified work south Of the village, on the
SIDE Of La Goutte Gullin, where we captured
los prisoners, including two officers. Ar
tllery actions have been especially violent on
both sides of Les Esrnrges, IL the forest Of
LIE ri 6tre, north of ReIllon IN Lorraine aud
in the Vusges south If Steinbach and III the
environs Of Thanh. Violent counter attacks
10y he Germans during the last few days
against The British trenches before Lous and
10 the north have resulted only i'll 9rave aud
costly checks. The principal assault was
delivered by between three and four dlvl-
sions and was completely repnIsed and dis
per-ed, the enemy leaving before the Allies
positions between seven thousand and eight
thousand dead"
\ German official statement says. "Iu the re-
gion of Souchez and Neuvilie,a and IN The Cham
DtSDG DOl tu-euSI Oh LIZ AI6Sull, enemy dttIChS
with hand grenndes have been repulsed. Our
uitmen yesterday destroyed -four enemy aero
planes. One British neropIane fell east Of
Poperinghe, aud north west of Lille ~ Bti-
fish battle biplane flying at a height OF four
thousand metres was compelled 10 de. ceud.
IN The Champagne, a French buttIe biplane
was shot down near Sommepy and another
on the heights Of the Meuse, west of Les
Hattou Chatel. We lost an observation aelo-
plane south of the forest Of LIE p etre".
a Petrograd official COMMUNICATE states
'In the Dvinsk region on many parts of the
front there has been fur Ous and successful
fighting against the Germans, who assumed
the Often i've repeatedly. Northwest Of
Dvinek they were elected from Garbounovk
and forced to flee by our new attacks. In
The region of the highrOad south. west of
Dvinsk the Germans were driven from their
trenches between Lautzess and Ghlryishki.
Stubborn fighting Oh the left bank of the
Styr, below KoIkl, ended on the evening of
the tenth IN our occupying the third line of
the enemy $ trenches
A German official bulletin announces:
"Before Dvipsk and northeast Of Vidzy the
Russian attacks have been repulsed'.
A Vienna Official despatch states The
Russian attacks OH our east front slackeDed
considerably on Monday. Against our Strlp0
line they made some attacks without success,
and on The Lower Styr they were driven
buck IN u north taeterly direction.
The correspondent OF !he "Nlorning Post"
at Ga cutta says That Mohmnnd Lashknrs
we've attacked on Friday by General Camp
bells Filst Division from ShnbkaGar. The
DIohmands made desperate, but unsuccessful
efforts to turn the British TANKS whose
withdrawal was successfully eff cted after
the Molmands had been punished with
heavy LOSSES The casualties Of the British
were 60.
a list of casualties since the 1st of October
has been published, giving 961 officers and
20.351 mru, nearly all being from the West
err front. Among the killed is General
Wormald.
London, Oct. u IA West Indian Con-
tiusent Fund, winch is being raised here,
has now reached a sum Of over fifteen hum
bred pounds. TIE camp at Senford was
visited 10y 10y the Contingent Committee on
Saturday last, the 9th inst, aud all were
found well. Mr.. Bouyun, of Barbados, now
on leave from Nigeria, is acting as Assistant
Honorary Secretary to the Committee whilst
here. 1t is intended to provide a Regiment
Institute for the Contingent from the funds,
and footballs and other games are being sent
down.