New Britain herald., 1915-05-13
BRITISH WARSH|P
 GOLIATH BLOWN UP
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Paris. May 13, 5:10 a. m.--A Havas despatch from Athens says:
 "An allied fleet re-entered the Dar- danelles last night and bombarded the forts at Kiiid Bahr Chanak Kalessi, and Niagara. The bonbardment was interrupted at 8 o'clock, but was re- sumed three hours later and is being continued
 Although the Turks have been strongly reinforced the bombardmenc from allied warships is causing them heavy losses and they are steadily los ing ground. Turkish trenches are filled with bodies"
 French Official Report.
 Paris May 13, 2:S1 p. n1.-The issued the following statement on the progress of hostilities:
 We won successes Wednesday evening and Wednesday night to the north of Arras.
 Masters of Fort.
 ''At Notre Dame De Lorrette we are masters of the fort, as we'll as of the chapel.
 'In the vast quadrilateral of trenches and earthworks which is to taic foOutl Ul rIIlS ,CHdpCl VI ASOtl Dame De Lorrette we have been sub Ject to very violent counter attack. x tIferocious combat which lasted all night long developed in this quadril- ateral. In the morning we were com- piete masters Of the situation, having Inflicted very heavy losses on the enemy.
 Allies Capture Carency.
 During Wednesday night we also took by assault all of the village of Carency, as we'll as the forest to the north of it. Hill No. 125. The Ger man garrison stationed in this village and in this wood was composed of one battalion of the 109th regiment of in- fantry; one battalion of the 130th regiment of infantry; one battalion of BavaTian Chasseurs, and six com panies of Pioneers, 300 men to a com pany These forces had made of Carency and of Hill No. 125 in the forest a position of great strength. In spite of the fact that their num- bers had been very much reduced by their losses in killed, wounded and prisoners in previous days, these forces during the entire' fight put up a desperate resistance to our attack, delivered against a maze of trenches, blockhouses and narrow passages.
 1.O50 Prisoners Captured.
 "we broke down this resistance of the enemy, and at break of day we were in complete mastery of the situation. Our troops killed hum dreds of Germans at the point of the bayonet. We made 1,050 prisoners. of whom about thirty are officers. Included in these latter is a colonel and the commandant of the battalion of chasseurs. .|~
 ''At the southern exit of Souchez our positions were subjected yester- day to violent attack on the part of the enemy: Nevertheless we retained them.
 Progress at Neuyille.
 At Neuville our attacks on the will lage itself and to the north of the village made perceptiblc. progress. To the north of Neuville we took posses sion of trenches several hundred yards long, and we occupied the road called Highway des Carrieres, which runs from Neuville to Givenchy. Tn the village itself we occupied yesterday morning only the southern portion, the enemy still holding the center and the northern part. An attack de- livered late in the afternoon resulted in our occupying, house by house, all the central portion of this village. The Germans were driven back to the extreme northern part, where we are outfianking them.
 Our troops in this fighting gave admiral evidences of courage and tenacity.
 "In the Forest of LePretre we oc- cupied yesterday new line of Ger man trenches"
 Russians Outnumbered.
 London, May 13, 9:59 a. m.---A Reuter- despatch from Petrograd gives the following official statement re- garding Russian military operations
 In the fighting between the vistula and the Carpathians May and 3 the Germans planned to break our front by the lightning rapidity of the blow directed at the< neishborhood of Krosno by seven divisions of the flower of the German. army, after heavy artillery preparation. At the end of demonstration six more di- visions appeared on this front, where our army was tremendously outnum- bered.
 "On a general front of forty miles the enemy gathered three quarters of the Austrian army, one-ninth of the German army, the first reserve, half the contingents of the second reserve, besides eight divisions from the Ser bian front, several new Austrian di- visions and twenty infantry divisions, 1 as well as eight new divisions and nine cavalry divisions from the western front. Only one of our armies par ttcipated in the first attack
 Ready for Revenge.