The sun., 1915-03-01
GERMANS UNABLE TO
CHECK FOES ADVANCE
French war once Reports Gains
at Many Points.
,pe,iuI cabr De,pa,ch 10 Tnr :,

pAKIs. Feb. 2S.--ro-dsy's details OF
French advances in Champa sne. wnan
have been the feature OF War Office
communicates for more than a week. are
even more gratifying than those pre-
viousiy presented. Apparently the Ger
mans are totally unable to stem the
offensive in that reg!on. although they
nave brought up heavy reenforcenIrnts
and are losing heavily in their efforts
TO check H.
The communicate issued b. tne War
Ofiice Tonight announces that we have
made marked progress along the entire
battle front" IN Champagne NoriH Of
Perthes the French not un.A repulSrd a
German counter attack but retaliated Dy
pushing their lines still further forward.
Between pvrthes and Beausejour the
same resul, has been obtained. while 20
the northwest and north of the latter
place more than 1000 meters OF German
trenches have been captured
In the Argonne the French have also
mad good success. especially near Buu-
RELIES. where ,heN took 900 meters OF
trenches. and at Nauquos. where al m
fantry attack which is described hy IN,
War Office as brilliant enabled them
TO reach the plateau upon which the
village = situated, Nauquo!s J., di-
rectly s.uth OF Nsrennes. an important
railway junction toward which the
French have been striving FOR some
weeks. The night communique follows
At Becourt. northeast OF Albert.
German attack has been COM
pIetely checked b. our fle
The enemy bombarded So ssous
with 20u shells
w Champagne We hav, made
marked progress along the entire
battle front. Nortn of perth.s ",
have repulsed Il counter attack and
have maintained tn. ground cap
jured yesterday. We have also Ell
lHrged our positions 10y occupying
new trenches.
We have gained ground IN all the
woods situated between Perthes and
iieauseiour our gains of yester-
day nortlwes, and north Of Reause-
Jour represent 1000 meters OF
trenches These gains were extended
considerably to-day IN" .ucmV
lett more than 200 dead in one
trench. We captured "A miira.lleuse
According 20 tse latest reports
the fighting continues under good
conditions I'm the Argonn- 1t Hil
"?63.' west of Roureilles we have
captured about 300 meters ~
trenches At Nauquois a brilliant
infantry attack enabled us To- reach
is situated.
IN the Vosges At Chapelotte. three
klometers north Of celles-sui.
Plaine. lively attack by the Ger.
mans was completely repulsed
The afternoon cummuuique. in addition
10 telling Of the encouraging dey clop-
ments in Champagne, announced that
the Germans had n-a!u bombarded
Rheims. throwing sixty shells into tac
city. half of which We're directed at the
cathedral This action was followed to-
day by a heavy bombardment of Sos-
sons The Belgian troops have also n"en
successful in their attacks recently. hav-
ing occupied a farm on the right bank
of the User yesterday. according 10 tho
afternoon statement, which said
Near DiXmude Belgian art!ller,
demolished two uf the rnemv's
works the Belgian infantry occu-
pied = farm on the right bank OF
the Yscr and one OF the Rclglau
aviRtors dropped bombs on the
cnemy's harbor station at Ostend
The Germans again bombardcd
Rheims Some sixty shells we're
fred half OF them at the Cathedral
In the Champagne district inn
portant progress MAS made late
SATURDAY. We carried two German
NbIhS' hlf IlpiNn bl l'eTtIltS. the
other north Of Beausejour In ad.
dltion We gained ground between
those two points and to the north
vest os Perthes We made 2oo pts.
oueys,
The total number of German sol
dlers who have surrendered the Inst
ten days amounts 10 more than
thousand
There have been fairly lively ar.
tsllery engagements on the heights
~ the Meuse, In the Woevrc tho
day was calm In the Vosges, i'm
the ueighborhood OF IIartmanns-
Wci!'rkopf, we made some progress
Reports from several unofficial quar-
ters indicate that the Germans are plan
ming new offensive in Flanders and
also against Arras and Id Rassee Tho
arrivals # reenforcements in those re-
gons have been noted for the past few
davs