The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-10-06
FURIOUS Fighting
FIVE MILLION Men OPERATE ON
WESTERN BATTLE LINE
FIERCE COUNTER ATTACK

Fierce COUNTER ATTACK
Allies Hold Gains But Berlin Reports
Contradict French-Teuton Line
Holds Despite Terrific Frontal At
tacks-British and French Often
sive Loses Idpetuous Momentum.
Furious counter attacks, in
which asphyxiating gases, liquid
fire, arlillery and the baIonet are
employed are being launched by
the Germans against the Allies
over the greater part of the $50
mile battle front in the western
theater, except at the eastern eN-
tremity, where storms have
brought about lun.
Five million men are believed to
be engaged in this mighty battle,
in which the Germans are trying to
check the great drive of the Anglo
French and Belgian forces. Not
all these troops are actually on the
firing line. big proportion of
them being held in reserve for
quick transportation to points
where the greatest danger threat
ems. More than. six hundred aero
planes are taking part.
Sr.I e, fp.p,,,
the Champagne and Arsonne for
est, where the Germans are deS-
perately attacking in an effort to
regain lost ground and remove the
menace to the German lines of
communication, which are being
shelied by the heavy French guns.
Berlin: The Germans have not onl!
stopped the general allied offensive
but by counter attacks have gained
considerable territory. The officia
bulletin says:
..The enemy continued Tuesday his
attempts to break through our lines
without achieving any resr't., On the
contrary he suffered in manp places
very considerable losses, besides
bringing US an appreciable gain ii
territory.
s.Our counter attack resulted IL
our capturing twenty officers ane
seven hundred and fifty men, increas
ing the number OF prisoners taken il
this locality to S.397 men, including
a number of officers. Nine addition
al machine guns Were captured.
cat Souchez, Angres and Roclln
court and also along the entire from
from the Champagne to the Argonnt
attacks by the French were repuiset
without a break.
.In the region of Souain the enem,
actually brought forward masses o
cavalry, showing remarkable lacl
3 of appreciation OF the situation
Naturally many of them were sho
down and the others forced to flee a.
quickly as possible.
During the repulse Of these at
tacks the Saxon reservU regiment ant
the troops of the Frankfort-on-the
Main division especially distinguished
themselves.
.In the Argonne small advanc
was made on our part to improve ou
position at LaFille Morte. The move
ment brought US the. desired result
besides securing for US as prisoner
four officers and two hundred ant
twenty men.
.tOn the hill at Combres the enem
positions were blown up by extensiv
mine explosions.
London: an official communica
ton just made public dealing witt
the operations in France Tuesday
says that in the heavy fghtin;
around Loos the British have takel
exceptionally strong German lines o
trenches and bombproof shelters sew
erai hundred yards in extent.
Having taken the German secon'
line, the statement says, the Britlsl
are now after the third line o
trenches. In all more than thre
thousand prisoners have been ta&el
and twenty-one guns and forty ma
chine gums have been captured AM
Others destroyed.
In ChaDpagne the French are at
tacking the German second line o
trenches and are making further pro
gress but seemingly the Allies often
sive movement is not being carries
on with the same impetuosity whlcl
characterized the first two days op
erationS. The successes won are rec
ognAed as important but the mai
object--to break through the Germal
lines-has not been accomplished.
Both the British and French hav
greatly improved their positions, and
by gaining the hills and crests from
s which they can dominate the Ger
man lines of communication, thel
next attempt to secure a decisive vic
tory should be easier to carry out, /!
view Of experts here.
While in Champagne and Artoi
the French and British infantry. fol
lowing up the brilliant successes Q
their great simultaneous onslaugh
Of Saturday and Sunday, already arr
hurting themselves at some point:
against the second German line O
defense, up to which the first rusl
carried them, at other points they art
5,sUSluS upSA CN low >ASck,SA tsS>
Z German counter attacks, bent on wip
ing out the successes already won.
IS So far, Judging from the officia
reports, these counter attacks have
proven unsuccessful, the Allies hold
ing grimly to the hastily intrenchee
positions taken before the German
second line, in the face of every gur
the Germans can bring to bear upor
them. At the same time a German
counter offensive in the Argonne, {
few miles east of the scene of the
great French victory, has been stop
ped short, the French official state
ment says.
Meanwhile fuller and more accur,
ate details of the results OF the first
two terrible days of the attack which
broke through the German fortified
lines are given in the official state.
ments. They alter the position of the