New Britain herald., 1915-09-30
X t Sections of Vast Stretch of Fighting Men Give Back Toward Berlin While Kaisers Men
 Have Small Success at One Point '
 ----4 BATTLE IS FIERCEsT AROUND LENS .-
 RUSSIANS HOLDING ATTACK WELL

g1on Attennt to Reach Railroad Is
 Under Way-Airmen Bombard Sta
 tions Conquest of First Ldne Conn
 plete..
 The great drive of the entente allies an the western front is making i'm portant headway in the Champagne region of Trance. Paris claims a notable advance and Berlin comedies that the French have gained ground, announcing that Hill No. l 91 north of Massiges, has been lost to the Ger mans .x ss 4ss.
 It is likewise admitted by German army headquarters that French troops succeeded in penetrating the German { lines in two small sections near sSouchez, south of Lens, in the Artois region.
 French attacks south of Arras were easily repulsed. while a brigade that pushed through the German outer line at one point in the Champagne was broken up, 800 men being cap tured and the others destroyed, Ber- lin declares.
 The Paris war office in chronicling the advance in the Champagne an- nounces that ag footing in the second. German line of defense was secured at several points. 4
 The district west of Butte De Talre s and that to the west of the Navarins Farm are mentioned in connection with the Champagne advance The French are declared even to have passed the German line in this lat ter region. being unable sto- hold on because of tI5asl heavy German artil lery dirs4 They maintained all the secohd line points captured, however, { 1t is claimed. N
 In this district the French are push ing for the strategic railway line just behind the Ger1aan front and .ac- Scording to their claims must now be pbarded various stations along this line.
 Imp portant su pp porting works to the south of Ripont in his section. also the conquest of lie first German de- 4eAas line. s
 The only resistance of the Germans sfl1 the sArtois N district. where the British and French are pushing their \ Hines forward towards Lens, with the eventual taking of the Important city of LilIe apparently in view, was am extremely violent bombardment, of the new allied positions east of Sou- chez. Paris reports.
 Six German Zeppe1ins were sighted today northeast of Brussels bound in a westerly direction. Their route would take them eventually to the English Channel, Thanked by Dover and calais
 Further important gains by the z Frenchtn the vigorous continuation of the general offensive movement of the entente allies on the western front are reported ythe Paris war office to- day. ssss sssss the Gernla1 Second line of defense in the Cshaxnpagne region. it is an nounc&f They have taken an iN.- portaf1t defensive work of the c;..-. I14s northwest of Massiges, back Of ' which lies an important junction on the railway which parallels the Ger <. man front in this region. K
 The He'd attacks along a front in t Ie west totalling less than thirty Hes are regarded in England as only A beeinuing Of the offensive nios.s- inents gss
 Tn4 Russians are still holding off Field 1kaFshaI von Hindenburg's at tack insls but apparently are < SiaaNif kors di icuIty in resisting the ensrget tic rrlouenlent he is making 4 gainsts them near Osfniana, southeast Of viInas m the development Of a sweep to the south utheastward in an eff fortlfS head off the Russian Baropo- vtdz Petrograd admits that t1i Russians have been forced to re-. z tire somewhat in the 0snaiana region.
 While the Russian forces are seemingly in retrograde movement again in Nolhynia. they are keeping the npper hand in. Galicia According x to last reports. driving back the TeH4 4Ts in bats along the Stripa.
 Th Greek chamber has ratified the goveS 1taent,s decree Of obilization s horixed $50. 900. 900 loan Baftle Tor Lens. -
 Lon Sept 30, q 2 4 2 m 1e great fFnggIe on the western front sshas nj respIved itself clearly into z 5 sbate ron Lens, in Pas De Calais, nine Ies northeast of Arras. The { rabt of thia town, with its radiat- 2 lns ys, would bring into the foresE otnd the possibility foretaking Ns. Bptf noffh and sout tn Of Lens the tax -s 1 x I 6. ,.. ,.