New Britain herald., 1915-05-28
Russians. Defeat Germans.

f 4v ! fle text OI tue SlaCem cnt 1O1i0WS. '.In the western theater: Fourteen fficers and 1,450 Frenchmen were taken prisoners and six machine guns were captured since the 9th of May. These belonged to the French army corps operating at vital point where attempts were made by she enemy to break through our line northeast of the Lorette ridge. Southeast of Lor- cute ridge the French renewed attacks or parts of our line last night but were repulsed
 Battle Raging at Ablain.
 At Ablain a battle Is raging, The enemy also attacked in the Forest of LePretre last night. After prolonged. artillery preparation and bitter hand to hand fighting the en- gagement ended in a severe defeat for the French.
 Tn the Vosges Mountains the enemy succeeded in establishing himself in st small trench forming part of our position to the southwest or Meetzera1.
 French Attack Repulsed.
 "A French attack at Retichs-Acker- kopf. north of Muehlbach, easily was Iepulsed.
 
 dey attacked the open town of Lud- Nigshafen (Bayaria). Several civilians were killed or wounded by bombs The material damage done by the raiders was slight. The leading ar m ored aeroplane in the lead, was forced to land at a point east of Neu- stadt, and afterwards the commander of the squadron of aircraft also fell into our hands in the neighborhood of 4Aancy. Osfr- seropfanes caused ~ . separate .aeroplane to fall at, Epinal. and they set fire to the barracks at Gerardmer (eighteen miles south of St. Die.)
 3,12O Russians Captured.
 "In the eastern theater: On the Dubysa our troops again commenced tn eoffensive. An attack conducted on both sides of the high road be- tween Rossijeny and Elragola was crowned with good results. We cap- tured 3,12o Russians. On the remain der of this front Russian night attacks were repulsed at several places.
 .sIn the southeastern theater: To stop the advance of the Teutonic allied troops the enemy tried with fresh forces brought forward from ether war theaters to attack at several joints on the right bank or the River San. These attempts failed Only in the region of Sieniawa were weak di- visions forced back on the left bank cf. the San. On this occasion about six of our cannon could not be with drawn in good time.
 Tn the district northeast of Prze- nysl we are still progressing favor ably on both sides of the River Wysz- ic TN frn f6a n ported May 25 about 5000 additional prisoners have been taken and 25 can non and about 20 machine guns have been captured
 French Official Report.
 Paris, May 2S, 2:35 p. m.-The French war office this afternoon is- sued the following statement on the progress of hostilities:
 "Tlle counter attacks of the enemy against the positions taken by Us near Angres continued last night, but were repulsed by. us.
 "At Ablair--St. Nazaire our troops yesterday followed up their offensive moveme with distinct success. Mas ters of the cemetery. they took pos session early in the night of all the group Of houses nearby, including the parsonage, which had been strongly protected by the enemy. Subsequent- ly they took by assault the German trenches along the road which runs from Abliain--St. Nazaire to Moulin Malon, to the southeast.
 Take Important German Work.
 Here they were subjected to a vio- lent counter attack during the night, but they held all the ground in their possession and inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. At the break of day they moved out in an easterly direc- tion and took possession in the di- >rection of Souchez of an important German work, called the Fort Des Quatre Boqueteaux. Here the fight ing was very spirited, and the enemy suffered seriously. The number of prisoners reported yesterday evening is considerably over 400 and includes seven officers. We captured in ad- dition about twelve machine guns. This morning, at the taking of the fort we made some more prisoners. The exact number has not yet been reported We also captured some war materials.
 Bombard All Night. "The bombardment reported yester- day by the Germans from Ecurie and Roolincourt continued all night long.