Connecticut western news., 1915-06-10
GERMANS LOSE IN . BIC ARRAS FIGHT
Allied FIest Successfully BOm-
 bard Turkish Forts.
SHELL SvLTAN'S POSITIONS

Great Bodies of Fresh German lnfan.
 try Sent Forward In Attack From
 AbIain to NeuviIIe, but Smothered In
 Frantic Attacks, Says French War
 Office-Turk Losses Enormous
 Victories of French and British forces over the Germans on the battlefield north of Arras and of the allied troops on the Gallipoli peninsula, aided by the combined fleets. were announced by the French war office. These triumphs are of great importance, especially the success of the troops fighting to reduce the Notifications at the Dardanelles.
 The Anglo French armies made an attack in full force against the Turkish positions. AS the soldiers advanced to the assault the fleets opened terrific bombardment of the sultan's forts. The fighting demonstrated the great supe- riority of the artillery of the allies over that of the Turks.
 The losses of the Ottoman armies were enormous. At the close of the battle the British had captured two Turkish trenches.
 On the battle-ground in France all the way from Ablain to Neuville the Ger mans delivered a frantic onslaught to regain the terrain lost to the French in the last few weeks Great bodies. of fresh infantry were sent forward un- der cover of darkness. while the kai- ser's artillery turned loose a rain of shells on the French.
 In spite of the violence of the Ger man aggressive and the great number of soldiers sacrificed, the French held all their positions, smothered the of fensive of their foes and in addition drove the invaders from several trench lines between the highways leading from Aix-Noulette and Souchez and be- tween Ablain and Souchez.
 Five times the German commanders sent their infantry to almost certain death on the front east of La Chapelle de Lorette, and five times they were driven back by the French. The French war office statement on the fighting in France says:
 ''In the region to the north of Arras the enemy undertook a very violent eff fort to recapture the positions which he had lost recently. The whole of the front from Ablain to Neuville, and par ticularly the sugar refinery at Souchez. underwent bombardment almost con- tinually, to which our artillery replied energetically.
 ''The German offensive was over whelmed everywhere, and we main tained all our positions. inficting heavy losses on the enemy. Between the Ak Noulette-Souchez road and the Ablain- Souchez road we took several trenches of the enemy, in which we made about thirty prisoners"
 The loss of the sugar refinery at Souchez, north of Arras, to the French and the capture by the French of two sections of the village of Neuville, in the same region, are conceded by the German war office in it's statement on the progress of the war.
 The statement says:
 '"Attacks on the eastern slopes of Lorette heights were repulsed with heavy loss to the enemy. Fighting is in progress in only small portions of the trenches. The remainder of the sugar refinery at Souchez is in the pos session of the French.
 'In Neuville We lost two groups of houses. Mines of the enemy exploded in Champagne were quite ineffective We dropped bombs on Calais and the aviation grounds at St Clement, near Luneville.