Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-10-05
ALLIES WIN BATTLE.
ANGLO-FRENCH ARMIES TAKE
SOUCHEZ AND LOOS FROM
GERMANS.
10000 TEUT0NS CAPTURED
Official Statement Issued at Berlin Ad-
mits Repulse--French Push Enemy
Back on Fifteen-MiIe Front-British
Take Five Miles of Trenches.

London, Sept. 28.-The greatest vic
tory for the allied arms since the bat
tie of the Marine, when the strategy
of General Joffre and Sir John French
saved Paris, has crowned the first
move of the great FrancO-British drive
to hurl the Germans from France.
Almost year to the day since that
great battle, which marked the end of
the German advance into France,
Joffre and French have hurled their
legions at the German line with Vio-
lence for which they have been
months in preparing.
AS a result, the German position,
which extends in the form of a right
angled triangle from:Ypres south to a
point northeast of Compeigne, thence
directly east through Reims to a point
north of Verdun, is in imminent dan
ger of development and humiliation
unless the allied drive is stopped
short.
In the two days since the great al
lied offensive began, striking at the
extremes of this great German triangle
with the purpose of fanking both an
giles, the French and British have cap
tured 10000 unwounded prisoners.
The French, on the southern line of
the German triangle, have smashed
their way for two and a half miles
through the German line on a front Of
fifteen miles, while at the northern
end near Arras the British army has
captured five miles of trenches and
broken the German line in some places
for depth of 1000 yards.
The German war office admits the
loss of Loos and Souchez and the re-
tirement of the Germans for more than
a mile over a wide section of the front.
The greatest intensity of the French
attack is being covered on the lower
or left flank of the German line in the
Champagne region, where the French
on Friday drove the Germans from
their first line of trenches in the most
furious battle which has taken place
in France since last autumn.
Paris reports that the powerful sys-
tenn Of entertainments, caves, re-
doubts, protection sheds and fortifica-
tions which the Germans spent the
winter in constructing and protecting
have been taken by the French on the
front between Auberive and Ville-sur-
Tourbe, just east of Reims in the
Champagne district.
After driving the Germans from
these positions the French attacked
again with terrific vigor and forced
the Germans to retreat between three
and four kilometers 1.-TWO and a half
miles, to their second line of en-
trenchments. In this battle alone the
French took 10000 prisoners, 200 Of
whom are officers, "a field guns and a
vast quantity of supplies stored in the
works the Germans were compelled to
abandon.
The French report declares the al
lied troops have captured the villages
of L'Epine de Vedegrange, LaCabane
and Tabaraque, towns lying between
Reims and Verdun which have been in
the Germans hands all winter.
In the joint drive the British and
Belgian troops have taken valorous
part in the district between Arras and
Ypres. The advance was timed so
that the British attacked near La Bas-
see at the same time the French start
ed their drive around Arras. East of
Grenay and Vermelles, south of the
La Bassee canal, the British broke
through the German lines for a depth
Of 1000 yards across a front of five
miles, capturing the village of Loos,
part of the village Of Hulluch and the
earthworks adjoining Hill No. 70.
Further south the French concen-
mans holding the village of Souchez,
where fighting has taken place at in
tervals all winter without results. I'm
der cover of this rain of shells the
French troops charged and forced the
Germans to retreat. The entire vii
lage fell into the hands of the French
From this point the allies advanced
eastward in the direction of Givenchy,
hoping to effect a juncture with the
British who were moving southwark.
During this battle the French captured
1000 prisoners. The British took
100, according to Sir John French's
report. Only at one point were the
Germans successful. This was at
Bellewaarde, in Belgium, where the
British were driven out of the village
after capturing it.
The losses on both sides are report
ed to be fearful. Every known en-
CINE of destruction has been used by
the Germans and allies in the terrific
conflict. Thousands of bodies are lying
unburied for more than 100 miles.