Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-13
FURTHER GAIN
BY GERMANS
NEAR SOUCHEz
Forces of Kaiser Push
Their Positions Forward
Across Cemetery.
HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES
IN THE WOEVRE REGION
Believe Germans Have Re-
sumed Drive at Fortress OF
Verdun.
! TEUTONIC ALLIES RENEW
ACTIVITY IN THE EAST
Allies Claim Gain of 200 Yards
on the CalIipoli
Peninsula.
HARD FIGHTING CONTINUES
IN THE WOEVRE REGION
TEUTONIC ALLIES RENEW
ACTIVITY IN THE EAST
Allies Claim Gain of 200 Yards
on the GalIipoli
Peninsula.

Further German advances in the
vicinity of Souchez, where the ceme-
terry was captured from the French
early on Monday, are reported In the
official statement from Berlin. The
Germans claim to have pushed their
positions forward across the ceme-
terry along width of 900 yards and
captured the Cabaret Rouge ON the
road to Arras. The French declaresa
violent attack by German troops In
the "Labryinth'' was beaten of.
Hard fighting continued in the
Woevre region, where the Germans
are believed in Paris to have re-
sumed the drive at Verdun The
French report hand grenade combats
and cannonading at Apremont, Reg
melville and in lie Pretre forest The
Germans claim TO have broken up
with heavy losses four French at
tacks on lie Pretre forest positions.
Renew Activity in East
There are signs of renewed activity
by the Teutonic forces along the
eastern lighting front. Petrograd Of
ficially reports lively engagements
along the East Prussian front, in the
Bobr and Narew regions and further
to the southwest between the Pissa
and Rosoga rivers. There also has
been fighting in the Przasnysz region
aleng the line north of WARSAW. --2
South of Warsaw only sporadic ac-
! tions have occurred. but from eastern
Galicia, where quiet has prevailed for
some time, Teutonic attacks along
the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester are
reported. The upper Bug river. near
| Busk also has been the scene of re-
newed fighting.
Coincident with this news came re-
ports through Petrograd that Field
Marshal Won Mackensens army has
been strongly reinforced and that II
will soon resume active operations.
Through Mytilene and Athens. Paris
has received report that as the
result of another battle on the CALI
poll peninsula the forces of the en-
tente allies have advanced 200 yards
Balkan Kings in Conference.
According to an Athens dispatch to
a London newspaper the kings OF
| Greece, Rumanla and Bulgaria are
soon to meet in conference at Athens.
The attitude of Rumania toward
| the two groups of belligerentsi 10
again widely under discussion. Ac-
cording to statements made by cor
respondents on the side of the en-
| tente allies she has been given q
month to accept or reject Austria.s
offer of territorial compensation for
active military assistance or friendly
neutrality.
BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 10 (via London, 5;so
D. m.).-The German army head
quarters staff today gave out the fol-
lowing official statement:
| I'm the western theater:
"a French hand grenade attack at
! the sugar refinery of Souchez was re-
pulsed In connection with the storm
attack on the cemetery our positions
were pushed forward across the
cemetery over width of 800 Yards.
and the Cabaret Rouge, situated on
the road to Arras, also was captured.
The number of prisoners has in
creased to three officers and aoO men,
Several attempted enemy counters
attacks were subjected to our tire
and their execution thereby was pre-
vented.
"Between the Meuse and the
Moselle the enemy developed lively
artillery activity He attacked our
positions in the forest of LePretre
| four times in the course of the evs-
ming and the night. The attacks
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