South Bend news-times., 1915-05-22
FRENCH REPORT
TELLS Of GAINS
AROUND LORETTA
Position Which Germans Have
Been Defending For Six
Months is LoSt-BerIin Re-
ports 100000 Prisoners.

French forces. forced to suspend
operations by the heavy mists which
hung over the battle-ground in the No
tre Dame de Lorette region, sprang
furiously 20 the attack as soon as the
veil lifted and last nights report from
Paris chronicled their capture OF all
the approaches TO the table rock of
Lorette. giving them control of the
plateau a position which the Germans
have defended with great stubborn
ness for the past six months
Meanwhile the French and Algerian
troops. operating north of Ypres. have
pressed across the User canal and are
carrying the lighting 10 the Germans
with tremendous energy. Five hun
dred bodies of German dead were
counted on the field and $50 prison
ers we're in French hands when the
commander forwarded his report.
Can't stop Allies.
The fresh successes Cf the allies on
the western front took first place in
the days military events despite the
importance attaching 10 the AustrO-
German efforts about Przemysl and
along the San near the southern eX-
tremity Of the eastern front The
operations IN the west are mainly
Significant as indicating the inability
Of the Germans for the moment at
least 10 impede the steady advance of
the allies on the only sectors where
fighting is proceeding. This appears
10 be accounted for by unofficial re-
ports OF serious Withdrawals Of troops
from the west TO the east for the pur-
pose Of crushing the cars forces with
a final blow delivered in Overwhelm-
ing force.
3 #fr.v, II,
southeastern theater seem 10 Indicate
that the plan Of the general staff on
that front is meeting with no little
success. Since May I says Berlin,
104, 600 Russian prisoners. % cannon
and 253 machine guns have been cap
tured BY Gen. Won MackenZen's army
and their allied forces i'm eastern
Galicia- Prisoners captured on Thurs
day TO the east of Jaroslau had no
rifles, but were armed with iron clubs
says the Berlin statement This is
offered by the German staff as evi-
idence OF Generalization of the cars
troops.
Russ Admit Losses.
PetroErad admits that the German
fand Austrian troops have overrun the
leaStern bank of the San. spreading
lover the region about Jaroslau, Ra-
tdawa and Sieniawa. after stubborn
Resistance by the Russians
Russian troops also made captures
of prisoners IN considerable mum bers
near the junction of the San and the
NiStula according TO Petrograd -Four
thousand of the Teutonic allies were
made prisoners on this front in a sin
gle day SAYS the Russian staff
Several Russian trenches in the ad-
vance lines about StrawisCz south of
Przemysl. were taken by the Austro-
German forces after they had lost
e1eat numbers of men
Russian reports of further reverses
suffered by Gen Won Hindenburg' s
army IN Courland province along the
Baltic are met by German claims that
vest of the Niemen the cars troops
we're forced 10 continue their retreat
On the direction OF kOvno.
British unofficial reports Of the cap
ture Of Kilid Bahr and Krithia in the
fighting on Gallipoli peninsula in the
Dardanelles as yet have been uncon-
1irmed. Likewise there is lacking Of
fetal confirmation of the reported
silenCinE OF all the forts on the ASiatic
side Of the Dardanellcs.