New Britain herald., 1915-05-26
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Germany and Italy have agreed nei- tl1er to intern civilians nor seize their sproperty.
 #5 Prisoners Cries, "Viva Italia.'
 Italian Frontier, May 26. via Paris, E10 D. n1.-The first five prisoners Saken by Italian soldiers on Austrian territory exenlplfy the mixture or races in the Austrian army. The Prisoners were taken to Verona. On reaching Italian soil, one of the soldiers seized the military cap of an Italian private, exclaiming Il am from Trentino, Viva Italia
 The other four prisoners are Poles.
 German Official Report. @ Berlin, May 26. via London, 3:31 p. m.-The German general army headauarters staff today gave out the following statement:
 ..In the western theater: as...A night advance by the enemy against our newly acquired position west of the Forest of Bellewaard easily was repulsed. The number Of machine guns taken from the Eng lish was increased to ten.
 sNortheast of Givenchy colared British troops succeeded last night in capturing a projecting part of our outmost trenches
 French Attacks Fail.
 1Further south, between Lievin and the Lorette Hills, an extensive French attack, commenced in the afternoon, failed dscompletely. In the region to the north and |t6 the south of the high road be- Tween Soucl1ez and Bethane the ene- my had first succeeded in penetrating cur trenches, but our counter attacks s2xdn put us in full possession of our p6sitions. One hundred Frenchmen Iemained in our hands.
 French Lose Heavily. N#In the region south of Souchez several repeated strong attacks di- reeted by white and colored French troops against our lines completely broke down before our entangle- nents. Our opponents suffered asavy losses everywhere. During ne sbattles of the Lorette hills q filesian infantry regiment especially Eisting guished itself.
 sssA An advance Of the enemy in the Eastern part of the Forest of Le eretre was easily repulsed. A hos He flying machine was brought down Eta point south of Lens by our avia- Russian Attacks RepuIsed. eIn the eastern theater weak night ktacks4 were repulsed. "In the southeastern theater: The l kkack being made by the army un- 1 hr General Won Mackensen is n1ak- Ag good progress Southeast of Fadymno the village of Swiato was 1 ken after fierce lighting. East Of 1 adymno crossing over the San vens was captured after Austrian oops had taken bridge-head to west of the San by storm Further to the south our troops, ter battle. reached the district st of Laszki, and they also con- hned to the line of Korezenica-Zap- bw. The booty in prisoners and araErnaterial increased.'
 French oniciaI Report. {.
 Parts, May 26, 2:3S D. m.-The ench war office this afternoon gave report on the progress of hos ,ties, reading as follows: "The eeks inflicted upon the enemy yes- day in the region of Angres and a point to the north of the height Lorette determined the Germans come back with an attack or ex- mef-yiolence. There was furious hting last evening and during last Int. We were successful iii retain
 all our gains. Our troops gave dNnce of magnificent courage and owed splendid tenacity of purpose.
 The Germans in the beginning de- sred a counter attack against the
 lx captured by us to the northwest Angres. Furious attempts to take
 position were made ny them time
 time again. In spite ni the ex- tionally intense bombardment to
 ch our troops were subjected, we
 ined possession of all of our new
 lions.
 Allies Gain Ground.
 Eurfhermore, at the end of the
 we. occupied almost entirely the
 ion near Buval, where We gained
 biting in the afternoon. Here we
 Maintaining ourselves under a
 nt fire. At the same time we
 gained ground on tho heights to
 hortheast of Lorette, and we have
 ured a trench of the enemy in the
 rons of Souchez.
 n artillery engageemnt of consid-
 (e severity developed yesterday in
 egion of Soissons; there was an
 such encounter near Rheims.
 rom the rest of the front no re-
 have been received
 Aviators at Work.
 |urlng the day of May 25 our
 prs showed great activity along
 entire front and they were suc-s
 n in several endeavors to bom-
 Atrae enemy They threw in all
 projectiles. of these eighty-two
 large bombs of a weight of ten