Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-16
ALLIES REPORT
FURTHER GAINS
Both British and French Press
On in Northern France
and Belgium.
INTO GERMAN SECOND LINE
English Troops Take More Prisoners
J in North-German Army Corps
Drowned in Russian Marsh.

London, Sept 29.-An official com
munication just made public, dealing
with the operations in France yester
day, says that in the heavy fighting
around Loos the British have taken
exceptionally strong German lines OF
trenches and bomb proof shelters sew
eraI hundred yards in extent
Having taken the German second
line, the statement says, the British
are now after the third line of
trenches.
In all more than three thousand
prisoners have been taken and TWEEN
ty-one guns and forty machine guns
have been captured and others de-
str0yed.
Still Furious Fighting
Furious fighting still characterized
the united efforts of the French and
British to break through the German
lines on the western front The allied
forces, the French war office an
nounces, continue to make gains of
ground and add to their captures OF
men, guns and stores
2 Foot by foot, as the official communi-
cation reads, the French are making
progress to the east of Souchez-im-
portant territory from a startegical
point of view-and have likewise con-
tinued their advance in Champagne
1t contains the significant statement
that among the Germans taken prison
ers were men of the Guard Corps, who
had been brought back from the Rus
sian front a few days ago. That would
seem to indicate that the Austro-Ger-
fn LQ
to some extent their eastern battle
front in order to reinforce those sec
lions of the western line which the
Allies are attacking with heavy guns,
rapid firers and the bayonet.
German Corps browns.
The Times Petrograd correspondent
says:
"A report, which has been confirmed,
from good quarter, is that the Forty
first German Army Corps was over
taken by the flooding of the Pinsk
and being unable to escape,
nearly the whole of the corps per-
lshed."
German Counter Attacks.
London, Sept. 2S.-The great often
sive of the British and French forces
against both sides of the elbow joint
of the Germon positions on the West
ern front has not slackened, but Gen
eral Joffre's afternoon bulletin report
ed no new outstanding success.
The British official statement told
briefly of heavy losses inflicted on the
Germans northwest of Hulluch, where
heavy German attacks were carried
out during the course of the day
in rf
counter attacks the allies drives have
been checked with heavy loss, but as
the Germans make no claim of having
recovered the ground taken from them
the indication are that the allied gains
on Saturday and Sunday have been
generally maintained and at some
points improved and that the fighting
has reached the state of vicious at
tack and counter attack which may
persist for weeks.
! 1t is estimated that the prisoners
captured by the allies during the rush
will reach total of more than $4,000,
but this is offset to some extent by
the German claims that nearly 1000
French and British fell into their
hands.
No Change In East.
The fighting in the eastern theater
has brought no important change, but
England regards the position of Rus
sian arms as improving daily. which
strengthens the hope here that Ger
many dare not weaken her 70O-mile
front in order to fill the gaps in the
west.
Balkan Situation Obscure
The Balkan situation remains OBJ
scure, resting as it did last week, on
the oft-repeated assurance of Sofia
that <the country intends merely to
maintain an armed neutrality.
Big Drive in West Starts
London. Sept. 27.-Twenty thousand
unwounded German prisoners and
dead and wounded On both sides in
numbers of which as yet there is no
estimate. is the toll taken in the first
two days drive of the Anglo-French
forces which have begun a great often
sive movement against the German
entertainments along the western front
from the North Sea TO the Swiss from
tier.