The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-12
30, 900 Fell at Massiges,
When a Gain of 100
Yards Was Made
STORMED HEIGHTS IN
SUCCESSIVE WAVES
Moved Down in Terrible Slaughter by
French "75s' British Troops Who
Refused to Surrender Wiped Out,
Turks Report.

LONDON, Jan. 12.-The German often
sive in the Champagne on Sunday was pre-
ceded 10y 24-hour b2mbardment, one Of
the heaviest the Getmans have yet devel-
oped against the French line, Paris des-
patch states, A prompt counter attack
gave the Germans no time to organize the
positions they carried and neutralize their
efforts, the despatch says
The Germans attacked on scarcely Il
smaller scale than we did last September
They fought desperately, but our artillery
was invincible We gained a really impor-
tant victory"
Thus a French captain who was wound
cd early Monday describes the recent fight
ing in the Champagne, of the extent and
Importance of which Paris is still without
realization.
The German bombardment. beginning
Saturday morning increased steadily in
intcnsty-in the last - hours 100000
shells, many Of them containing asphyNiat-
ing gas, fell on the eight-mile front from
Ia Courtine to the western slopes Of The
Hand of Massges- until Monday morn
ing when the infantry attacked
The enemy first launched a strong attack
on the hill forming the western finger
of Nassiges, and the defenders fire rolled
them shattered down the slopes Then,
against the fve-mile front between .thc
Hand and La Courtine. 10000 Germans
charged no longer in solid columns, but in
foBr successive waves on the French sys.
TEN.
1t was repetition OF our September Of
fcnsive, says the informant. with tht
difference that We lad then silenced then
artillery and machine guns while now ours
maintained the supremacy
Under the fire OF the French seventy
lives" the assault melted away. \ mer,
fraction OF the attacking force reached tn,
holes in the French wire torn by the BON
hardment and occupied some 300 yards o
front trenches, which were mostly recap
tured in French counter-attacks.
With fully three-ffths of his 10000 sol
diers taking part in the battle killed anC
wounded, Gen Won Einen paid dearly fo
the hundred yards of French trenches rep
resentng the net gains of the offensive.
The British forces under Gen. Towns
hend have made several sorties from Kut
cl-Arnara on the Tigris, each time beini
rcpulscd with losses, according to tn
Turkish war office. The official communt
cation makes definite assertion that thi
tort is surrounded.
\ long-range naval battle in the Blacl
sea between the Turkish warship. Selm
formerly a German cruiser, and the Rut
sian battleship, Empress Maria, is report
cd by Constantinoplc The Empress Mari
was hit by the Turkish vessels fire, but til
Selim was undamaged it is declared.
Constantinople claims that considerab
losses were suffered by the entente force
in their evacuation of the tip of the Ga
lpoli peninsula Parties of retreatIr
troops who refused to surrender and fle
toward landing places were wiped out, IL
Turkish announcement says
Berlin reports the failure of French a
tack on the German positions north of !
AIcsnI in the Champagne along front
about / 600 yards
IN ammunition plant in the souther
section of Lille has been blown up. An O
fetal announcement from Berlin says
were killed and 40 injured Considerab
damage to property was done