Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-03
OFFICIAL REPORTS
OF WAR OFFICES
Renewed French Attacks on Cham
payne District Repulsed with
Heavy Losses.
FRENCH CLAIM ADVANCE THERE

BERLIN, Feb. 2--(By wireless to Say
yille.)-The German war office today
gave out a report on the progress Of the
fighting. dated March 2, and reading as
follows:
Renewed French attacks in the Cham
payne district have in most cases already
been repulsed. French were in strong
force. Before the German fire their
losses were enormous. At some places
there were hand to hand encounters, but
In all of them we were victorious. We
hold firmly our positions
I'm the Argonne district we have taken
several trenches, capturing eight prison
ers and five mine throwers
French attacks on Vauquois have been
driven back.
The advantages won by us In the
Vosges during the last few days have
been maintained in spite OF violent coun-
ter attacks on the part of the enemy. The
French losses were especially heavy dur
ing an attack yesterday evening at a
point east OF Celles.
"In the eastern arena OF the war. the
Russian advances 20 the southeast, and
south OF the Augustowo forests have re-
suited in failure. Russian night attacks
TO the east OF Lomza and to the east Of
Plock have been repulsed"
French official Statement.
PARIS. March 3.--CVia London)--The
deyc' 0pments yesterday at the front were
reported by the war office today in, the
following statement
"Betw- On the sea and the Aisne the
day was fairly quiet. The enemy at
tackled only to the southeast Of ST. Eliot,
south Of Ypres. He as repulsed By
British forces.
I'm Champagne. Rheims was again
bombarded, about fifty shells falling in
the town
In spite OF the storm our progress
continued between Perthes and Because
jour the whole day, notably TO the north
west OF Perthes To the northeast OF
Mesnil. 20 the north of Besusejour, we
hold the chief positions parallel 70 our
attacking line. II il confirmed that the
contingcnts of guards which made coun-
ter attacks on our forces during Sunday
night sustained very heavy losaes.
In the Argonne In the BaRatelie- Afarts
Therese sector there has been mine and
infantry fighting in an advance trench
We occupied after having nomentartly
abandoned IT, In the region OF Want
quois We have progressed and held
ground captured by two counter attack,
and made some prisoners.
In the Vosees at La OhapeIotte ".
have captured trenches and gained 90
metres Of ground"
! LONDON, March 2-The followina
statement from the headquarters OF, SIR
John NJ. French, commander OF the Brit
ish forces In tho field. was given out to.
day by the official information bureau.
The enemy's activities In the neigh
borhood OF Ypres reported in the last
communicates, have been checked. Durinr
the last three nights patrols which have
been active In fTpnt OF our trenches. have
found that the enemy has not ventured tc
leave his lines
| EARLY this morning March y an AZ
tack preceded by a heavy bombare men,
made on portion of our line was sue
oesstuily ropulsed On our left party OF
the Princess Patricia's Canadian light In
iantry captured German trench with
great dash. After killing eleven OF the
occupants and driving Off the remainder
lhey succeeded in blowing up the trench
our losses wero trlfling
On our right. near La Bassee ",
gained ground steadily by skinful trench
work and in this zone we obtained COM
piete mastery over the enemy's snipers
ana In consequence our casualties wert
greatly reduced.
! ON several positions along our front
our artillery forced the enemy's batteries
"a change position and increased the as.
eendaney over the opposing guns which
mas been observable for some time past.