The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-05
From North Sea To Argonne the
Battles Ragged With Each Side
Claiming the Advantages Of the
Pitched Battles Engaged In
BRITISH GAIN POINT
OF MAIN OBJECTIVE
Berlin Announces AnnihiIation Of
One French Force Which Pene-
trated Their Positions in the
Champagne Close To MesniI
tA,socIatsd Press by Federal wireless,

Associated Press by Federal wirsioSs)
T ONDON, October 3.-There
II has been desperate fighting
without a break along the western
line, from Flanders to the Ar !,
gonne, with comparatively small
gains for the Allies, which report
ed gains are emphatically denied
from Berlin.
Sir John French, reporting on
the days engagements south OF
Loos, announces that the British |
have captured the two trenches
which remained in German hands |
southwest of Fosse. which COM
pletes the work which the often
sive begun week ago was !
planned to accomplish. The
trenches were captured after a
desperate struggle. the Germans
having reinforced their front
heavily at this point.
Control Important Road
The main road from Lens to "a
bassee isnow straddled by the Brit
ish and the use Of it lost to tile
Germans. The fighting was for the
possession of this important line of
communications pNerte.whichG the
Germans transported the greater
part of their supplies for this front,
just as the object of the main
French offensive is to seize the
railroad triangle at Massignes for
the embarrassment of the German
lines in the Argonne.
The French claim to have adj
vanCed somewhat in the offensive
against the Massignes railroads and
to lave made further progress i'll
the Artois region in the west, gain
ing some sc, tons of the heights
between Souchcz and Nimy. The
German artillery at this point in
ficted heavy losses upon the
French, but failed to hold them
back. Last night the Paris war
office officially announced that the
heights of Latolie had been taken.
Berlin ontradicts
In the advance in the Cham
payne the Paris reports state that
the French have driven an import
ant salient into the German lines
north of MeSnil, engaging in hand
to hand fighting and taking num-
Der of machine guns and prisoners.
The Berlin dispatches contradict
this. They agree that one French
force penetrated the German lines
in tine Champagne but announce
that it was annihilated, the few sur
vivors surrendering
Paris reports that there has been
heavy artillery fighting north of
Berry au BAG, then Germans max
ing use of asphyxiatihg SHELLS, while
along the Flemish lines there has
been constant artillery duels, the
French heavy batteries bombarding
the German positions at Westende,
while British monitors shelled the
Germans from the sea.
Belgians Are Bombarded
Before Dixmude the Belgian
lines were subjected to torrent
of German shells, one sector of the
Belgian trenches receiving four
hundred bombs during the day, The
Germans made no attempt to fol
low up this bombardment with any
infantry attacks.
The French aero fleet was par
ticularly busy in advance of the
French lines advancing i'll the
Champagne and the railroad sta
ton at NouViers and the aviation
grounds at ChalleranGc. adjacent
to the railroad triangle. were BON.
blrded necessarily. sixty aerOplane'
trkino part in the attack.
Cut Trooptrain In Two
The aeroplanists ranged up anC
down the railroad lines and sue
ceeded in wrecking a troop train
one bomb cutting the train in two
in the general bombardment tn
aero fighters claim ito have mad
three hundred hits.