The Chitina leader., 1915-10-05

commenced
As a of day wonderful fighting with victory
ing French and English twenty thousand
wounded German prisoners taken Many field guns were
captured of the batteries of the Teuton being taken along
with the entire battery and with the perfect con-
don great qauntity of miscellaneous material also
fell hands of the allies and the biggest victory of the
allies the west the battle of the Marne was recorded
The first French cargeteo place at Souchez, and after
sweeping through the German trenches the French continued
their advance in the direction of Givenchy The forward
movement simultaneous along the whole front in the
Champagne district and the French have succeeded IN RETAIN
ing all the positions captured.
Further north the British also the and the
soldiers under Sir John French captured five miles OF German
trenches south of the LaBassee canal and east OF Veees
At some points penetrated depth of
four thousand yards two miles The British charge
suited capture of the village of Loos with all the German
defensive works around it. Hill 20 also taken well
the western outskirts of the village of Huluch
Twenty minutes after the French started their charge
trenches their work accomplished Before
the infantry participated the fight the German trenches had
been Systematically sheed by the allied artillery for sixty
hours the French 75s throwing their shells into the
under plan whereby the whole front seled each fifty
square yards of the German trenches being thoroughly raked
before the guns turned their attention to the next section
The sixty hour bombarlment ended at dawn yesterday
morning French infantry received the orders to adj
vance cheers swing ahead onto the avalanche
STEEL very little muskery being used the charge being
chiefly bayone The artillery fire OF the French and
British guns deadly and the Teuton dead reaches
total When the allies advanced they found the
Teuons in the trenches in dazed condition. the
rendering with hardly show of fight the troops being barely
in condition the attack Tranload after train load
of German proners is arriving in this city, the remarkable
thing being the absence of wounded German among
the capave Heretofore the larger percentage of prisoners
borne wounds of nature but the prisoners being
today all unframed The total German losses
tmated at ifty-fve thousand.
LONDON Sept. 27-The Belgian troops under King Albert
gained considerable glory the general offensive undertaken
by the allies yesterday In the charge they compelled the Ger
long string of trenches the west bank
of the User canal and captured German post in this section
very gratifying to the allied governments and compes the
adopt tactics With the Russians holding the
the eastern 'front.' actually forcing them back
places and with the two million German troops the west
unable hold back the advancing tide OF French and English
it will be impossible for the Teuons to proceed with the at
tempted invasion of Serbia and bring relief to their hampered
friends the Turks.
LONDON Sept 27-The people throughout the nation are
thrilled with enthusiasm and overoyed at the of the
tory Saturday and Sunday the German forces in
France and Belgium The elaon being felt is increased be-
caused of the political effect of the victories upon the Balkan
nations upon Bulgaria particular who veerng the
side of the central powers The Bulgarian diplomats
eagerly assuring the allies that the mobilization of their
not hostile move against the allied powers.
LONDON Sept 27-The French and British forces fight
ing northern France gained greater results the last two
days than they did in the preceding twelve months and far
have been able to maintain the positions taken from the
Germans Thirty pieces of field artillery and twenty thousand
prisoners taken The victory opened formidable gap in
he German lines and the remainder of the German trenches
before Lille are in danger being exposed to flank attacks
LONDON, Sept 27-Genera vanof, he commander Of the
Russian southern striking victory the euons
in southeast Poland taking thousands of prisoners and forcing
the Austro Germans to retire considerable distance Advice
from Perograd report desperate fighting along the entire front
with villages being retaken from the enemy and
many prisoners being captured The German have
caused the Teuon general staff to make changes the
of the armies in the field General Echhorn has
been removed because of the Russian victories his
troops
LONDON Eept 27-The Russian army of the north is in
distinctly better position due to the advantages recently
gained and in the fighting around Dvnzk the Russians
have improved their situation Hndenberg is concentrating
his efforts against the of General Russky but his
gress of late has been napprecab The German attacks
sackenng and the losses suffered the attacks
apparently having their effects.
BERLIN Sept 27-The Office issued official state