Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-10-01

,ar Office announces.
Violent bombardment of French,
trenches north of the Aisne, meay
Soupir. Is reported, the Germans,
however. making no infantry attack.
According to the official report OF
the German war office today. the
British forces are being pressed back
around Loos. French attacks in the
Artois and Champagne regions broke.
down. the Berlin statement also del
clared.
On the eastern front the Teutonic
power is slower in most sectors and
has been checked altogether in 0thers.1
according to the latest reports from
Petrograd. Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg's forces have made littlej
headway against Dvinsls. In Volhynisi
the Russians are fighting hard, butt
so far unsuccessfully to regain pos
session of the fortress OF LutslS.
by the Associated Press.
PARIS, Oct. 1, s:37 p. m.-1n thsI
great battle In the Artpla district theI
French have made further progresl
by means of attacks with hn.
grenades on German trenches.
nouncemsnt to this effect was
today by the war office In 'bhe Cham
payne a German counter-attack near
Maisons de Champagne was checked
The Germans violently bonbardedA
French trenches near Soupir north OF
the Aisne, but made no infantry at4N
tack.
The text OF the communication fol
lows:
I'm the Artois district we have
made progress by the use of hand
grenades In the trenches and under
ground passages to the enst and to
the southeast of Neuville.
Two German counter-att have
been delivered. one against a fort
which we conquered yesterday in the
forest of Giyenohy; the other against
the trenches to the soutn of hill 119.
where French troops had inst6iied~
themselves. Each one of these
tacks was conclusively repulsed
ITO the north of the Aisne, ned
Soupir, the enemy conducted vio
lent demonstration against ou
trenches. The firing of their arttll
lery and their infantry was not fol- /
lowed by an infantry attack.
"In the Champagne district our
fire put definite check to q German,
eounter-attack In the vicinity OF
MaisOns de Champagne.
THE number of prisoners made yes-V
terday evening during our advance to
the north of Massiges Is $50, inchd-
ing SIX officers.
BY the United Press
BERLIN tvla wireless TO London)s
Oct, 1.--German counter attacks
north of Loos continue to press pack
the English, according to this after
Moons official statement from the war
office.
All French attacks In the Artois
and Champagne regions, including 9
violent onslaught northwest Of Mas
siges, broke down under heavy fire,
it was officially reported.
Enemy monitors bonbarded Lofn-
bartzyde and MiddlekerlSe yesterday
without result" said the official state
ment. ''The English yesterday at
tempted no attacks against our posi-
tions north of Loos. Our counter
attacks made progress desipte enemy (
resistance. We captured a few pris &
oners on this section of the front"
BY the United Press.
LONDON, Oct 1.-The seventh day
OF the great allied offensive on the
western front finds the allies sweeping
closer to the Vimy Heights and the
Bazencourt- -Challerange Railway, the
objective of the French armies in the
Champagne.
Since the first rush of last Saturday
the Germans have lost more than 150,-
900 men in killed, wounded and pris-
oners, according to estimates of COR
respondents at the front. No ac-
curate estimate of the losses suffered
by the allies are obtainable. although
the Berlin newspapers say the allies
have suffered heavily, especially in
the fighting around Loos
Though the most severe fighting Is
now believed to be going on west Of
Vimy and west and southwest OF
Lens, the most impressive gains have
been made by the French III the
Champagne. Paris dispatches today
assert that the French left is now
within two miles of the Bazencourt-
Challerange Railway and that French&
gunners have rendered the railroa
useless to the Germans by stead
streams of shells.
The French right is pushing no s H3S
ward toward the highway orossini 8
Cernay, battling against the
stubborn enemy resistance. &3
London. Paris and Berlin HI -.
walSened to the seriousness
great battles in the west. - e
wild waves OF enthusiasm - ;1S
British and French capi :.
passed and tho public is II
eagerly every scrap of new III
British and French fronts.
of the German press is y
see in the present offensive -
of the allies the really deci
of the whole war. Berli
that if the allies are hurled
time in their attempt to 80
German line, peace negpti
be in progress before nsxt r.