New Britain herald., 1915-04-19
French Gain in AIsaCe- --AuslTIanS Abandon Attempt to Regain
 Positions in Northern Hungary.
GERMANS CAPTURE LIEUT..
 CARRQs, FRENCH AVIATOR

thenticity of Official French and
 British War Reports and Charac-
 tcrizes as Inventions Their Claims to Victories-Connicting Reports Re-
 garding Situation in East.
 ..,s The British army has begun an- other drive at the important section of the German line which holds con- & uttered Belgium. Sharp fighting oc- . cured yesterday in Belgium, and the official French report of today states that the British captured 200 yards of German trenches. retaining their position in the face of several counter <z,attacks. The statement from Berlin, however, says the British were ejecte however, says the British were ejected from minor positions they had taken from the Germans and that British attacks near Ypres broke down, with heavy losses.
 The French are again on the offen- sive on the eastern end of the line and substantial progress in Alsace is an- :. nounced at Paris. The French troops SNRre said to have pressed forward along E the Fecht River, capturing, among other positions, height which com mands part of the course of the river. The Berlin report asserts that French onslaughts near Combres and in the Vosges failed.
 French Aviator Captured. Lieut. Roland Garros, one of the best known of French aviators, whose ' exploits during the war won him fame, has been captured by the Ger mans. The Berlin war office an nounces that the lieutenant was made prisoner near Ingelmunster, Belgium.
 The authenticity of the official X French and British war, reports is e challenged by the German war office, which characterizes as inventions -sheir claim to victories. These claims, it is said, are disproved by the of , ficial German statements. ..
 Austrian Attempt Abandoned. Information has reached Petrograd \ that the Austrian attempts to regain positions in northern Hungary cap tured recently by the Russians, have e been abandoned. It is said that after stsix days of violent fighting, during which the Russians maintained their position, the Austrian attack subsided. @ Situation Still Dark.
 The situation in the east is still to be cleared up. Confident assertions x from Berlin last week that the Rus sian advance in the Carpathians region had been halted are offset by the claim of the Petrograd war office that the principal chain of the noun tains, comprising a seventy-five-mile section of the front, is now in posses sion of the Russians, and that 10000 Austrians have been captured in the last few weeks. It is said in Petro- . grad that the movement toward the interior of Hungary will be resumed after the troops have been rested and reinforced. The Austrian war office, however, maintains that the Austro- German forces are gaining further victories.
 French Official Report
 Paris, April 19, Via London, 2:40 > D. m.-The French war office this af- ternoon gave out report on the prog ress of hostilities, which reads as fol- lows: .#
 British troops yesterday captured in Belgium, near Zwartalen, 200 yards of German trenches. These they have retained, in spite of several counter
 
 attacks.
 We have been successful on both l7banks of the River Fecht in Alsace, and our advance is being pressed for ward on the north bank. We have gained possession of the summit of Burgkorpfeld, to the southwest of s Schilleckerwassen which directly com mands the valley. On the south bank, in the region of Schneefanrieth we have made notable progress, our stroops marching from the south to the north in the direction of the Fecht and MetZerol, which is southwest of Colmar. In this district we made an important gain with the occupation of a series of elevations, the northern most height of which commands the course of the Fecht in front of Burg korpfeld.
 Capture Mountain Artillery In the course of this action we captured a division of mountain arr tillery, two cannon of "A millimetres caliber and two machine guns.
 The German aeroplanes which flew over Belfort recently dropped four bombs These did some damage to two hangers and set fire to four chests of powder No casualties resulted nor was any serious damage donc."
 German Official Report.
 Berlin April 19, by Wireless to \ Sayville, N. Y.-The report on the
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