El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-07-03
ALLIES DRIVING
THROUGH ENEMY
French and British Break
German Lines and Push
Their Way North.
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must be counted upon. for the enemy
may be short OF men. but certainly
does not lack munitions. However, his
guns barely fired one shot for ten from
the allies Everything had been fore
seen and our plan worked like a
charm"
second Trenches Captured.
The trenches OF the second German
position captured by the French ex-
tend from MaricOurt, which is in pos
session Of the French. as far as the
Herbecourt taken by the French. lies
between these two points. Further
south the French made progress to-
ward Estrees and Assevillers-
North Of the SOmme, the Germans
made no attack or the positions pre-
Viously taken by the French
The French captured heavy artil-
lery and took more prisoners The
official statement says SO German bat
talions participated in the fighting and
that 81 OF these batta1;Ons sustained
important losses
During the artillery preparation pre-
ceding the Inauguration Of the often
sive Is German captive balloons were
burned.
Text Of Statement.
The text Of the statement saws
North Of the Somme the enemy
Sunday night made no attack upon the
positions conquered by US and which
we are now organizing
south OF the Somme the fight has
for our arms. Sunday evening and
night, we entirely occupied along a
front Of more than five kilometers
(three miles, the two lines of trenches
OF the second German position. from
the Mar1court wood which is in our
possession as far as the edge Of
Assevillers- Between these two points
we took possession. as a result OF a
brilliant engagement Of the village OF
Herbecourt which had been defensfvelv
organized by the enemy
Further south We had made progress
IN the direction Of Assevillers. the
northern and western boundaries Of
which are in our hands
North Of Estress and between Fs-
trees and Assevillers. our troops have
made perceptible progress
81 German BattaIiOns Suffer.
More prisoners and more pieces Of
heavy artillery. the counting Of which
has not yet been completed were can
tured by US during these recent actions
According 10 information at hand il has
been established that more than 90
German battaliOns participated in the
attack along the French front on July
oners. 81 Of these battalions suffered
very heavy losses and are at present
completely disorganized.
Most Prisoners Very Young
Most OF the prisoners taken by US
= uiy ]. and July 2, are very young As
a result Of the questioning Of Aese
men IN our hands it has been learned
that the preparatory fire OF our artil-
ieTE was very effective not only in
offensive ORGANIZATIONS hr1t
rendering impossible all lateral COM
munication behind the lines and in
preventing the bringing up OF pro-
visions At the same time our artillery
IRE made il impossible for the enemy |
TO transmit orders TO the troops en-
gagged in the operations.
IL German Balloons Fired
During the preparatory offensive !
iire OF our artillery French aviators /
set fire TO l3 captive German balloons. |
Two others were set on fire on July 1. /
During the attack our airplane scouts |
" ere masters OF the front During this
time only nine airplanes OF the enemy i
snow ed themselves and not one crossed /
our lines OF these nine machines, one i
was destroyed
French Capture 5000,
IN the ugnting south OF Arras Sat
lrcay- the French took prisoner 5000 |
Germans. according TO the Official state
nent issued today by the French war
In the course Of the night French
troops captured the village OF Curlu.
ABOUT seven miles southeast Of Albert
Germans Retreat in Disorder.
A heaFy German counter attack t1non !
he village Of Herbecourt ten miles
southeast Of Albert was repulsed- the |
statement adds After repeated as
saults; me Germans were obliged to
retreat there in disorder
ThiaumOnt In Retaken.
On the right bank OF the Meuse in
ne region north OF the fortress OF
erdun, Thiaumont, the official an
louncement says, was retaken by the !
french Saturday after Changing hands !
i've times
The position was heavily attacked by
ne Germans in the night, it is added. I
1ut without success