Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-02
TAKE NEW
LINES AT VIMY HILLS


Convinced FROM Faee One
enemy's front, notably at the railway
junction OF GuiRnicourt.
"At Amlfontaine our aviators shelled
effectively the Germans during the
night"
MAKE FRESH ATTACKS
After allowing the Germans TO exhaust
themselves in counter-attacks the Allies
have begun a fresh series OF assaults
south OF Ypres. between the La Bassee
Canal and Arras.
The British and French are now within
striking distance Of the Germans de-
Tending the important railroad town OF
Lens.
Following a let-up IN the storms that
have been sweeping the Vosges noun
tains hard hghtlng has broken out in
upper Alsace.
The eighth day OF the mighty battle
In the western theatre found no slack
ening in the power OF the Anglo-French
drive.
Fierce trench-to-trench fghting Is rag
ing In the Artois and along the front in
Champagne and the Argonne, while the
greatest artillery duel OF the war con-
tinues. More than 100000 shells have
been hurled In the past week.
French and British aviators have dam
aged many Of the railways behind the
German lines and the Teutons are fnd-
ing difficulty I'm shipping fresh troops and
munitions 20 the front.
Verdun has been shelled by the Ger
mans who used n gun with range Of
23 miles TO carry on the bambardment
In the Champagne, where the Germans
are striving desperately to hold the Ba-
zancourt- t-Challerange Railway, the Teu-
tonic artillery is using a new kind of gas
shell, which blinds the French soldiers
with its fumes when 1t explodes.
GERMANS REGAIN TRENCH
II is officially admitted that the Ger
mans were able to regain part of their
lost trenches from the British northwest
OF Hullach, but the Allies have again
launched such a violent series of assaults
in that region that the German troops
holding the La Bassee salient are IN dan-
ger of being surrounded and cut off.
Northwest of Vimy the French have
made further progress in the Givenchy
woods and are sweeping the Arras-Lens
road with deluge of shells The French
village OF Farbus, between Thelus and
Vimy has been destroyed by shell fire
and flames set by the bombardment
Between Auberive and LEpine de We'd
grange, in the Champagne, where the
French are close to narrow gauge
railway that the Germans are using as
one of their lines of communication, the
Germans fired many volleys OF poison
gas shells.
Extensive mining operations are re-
ported from West Flanders.
The net results of the recent fighting
as drawn from the British, French and
German official statements, are believed
to be these:
ALLIES GAIN GROUND.
First The British have gained ground
axra frnnt pnmnlptinn their
cupation of Loos and occupying import
ant positions near Lens. North of Loos
the British have lost some of the newly
captured ground through German
counter-attacks and their advance, tenn
porarfly at least, appears to have been
halted.
Second. The French have recaptured
Souchez and an important height west of
Vimy and continue to make slight prog
ress in the Vimy region southwest of
Lens. The heaviest German counter
attacks apparently have failed to win
back any Of the ground taken by the
French.
Third The French have advanced a
mile to two and a half miles on 15-
mile front in the Champagne region, and
at points are within two miles or the
Eazancourt-C t-Challerange Railway, one Of
the lines supplying the Crown Princes
armies In the ArRonne. The arrival of
German reinforcements and strong Ger
man counter-attacks within the last "a
hours appear TO have checked the French
offensive in the Champagne, at least
temporarily.
Fourth. The German attempt to halt
the Allies offensive by making vigorous
attack in the Argonne was failure.
Booty taken by the Allies, according
to Paris official claims. now includes
NEARLY o0O German Guns