ATTACKS AND COUNTER-ATTACKS ON THE WESTERN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 5

ATTACKS AND COUNTER-ATTACKS ON THE WESTERN FRONT

FRENCH SCORE IN ALSACE

{. UE :tiIVEN'TO. GERMAN COMMUNIQUES (By Telegraph".—Press Aflsn.—CopyriEht.) '.. _ ;i Paris, July 15. '& communique states: "We carried a lino of trenches southward of the Chateau Carloul. ■ ' , ■~ "The Germans, northward, of the Sevron Road, west of the Argonne Forest, regained a footing in the Beaurain Wood." ! ..- . ; . (Rec. July 16, 9.35 p.m.) Paris, July 16. 1 Official.—"Two German attacks at Haute Chevauciee and Bourevilles have .fceen'repulsed. > All'is quiet elsewhere.". ... The High' Commissioner, reports:— "••• i • tondon, July 15, 4.55 p.m."South of Chateau do, Carleul, the' Allies captured one line of German trenches. "*ln the Argonne the fighting is confined to the region in the west, , where the Allies have progressed." The Paris communique and the High Commissioner's report are at vari- . ance on this point, ' I FALSE NEWS CIRCULATED BY THE ENEMY* ' ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright v 1 , Paris, July 15. : !'K is untrue that the Germans captured the Cabaret Rouge, and it is also untrue that they repulsed us at Bois la Pretre. We repulsed them. The Germans are seeking to disguisa their local defeats, repetitions of ivhich are using up their infantry.; ' - . ' , GERMAN OFFICIAL' COMMUNIQUE, London, July 15. 'A' Berlin communique 6tates:—"The French; repeated attempts to retake tlie positions captured im the Argonne collapsed, despite the use of vast quantities of ammunition and, strong bodies of fresh troops. Unusually high losses was the only result of the French efforts. The prisoners were increased to 68 officers and 3688 ipen.i [ , THE MYSTERYi OF, HILL' 60, 'London, 'July is.. Replying to Mr. M'Neill, Mr. H. J. Tennant (Under-Secretary to the War Office) said that the Government was not aware of . the position of Hill 60 until Sir John French's oTspatch was received. Sir John French had his reasons for not reporting earlier. The fact seemed to be that since May 5 neither sido held the hill, therefore the puhlio was not misled,. The hill has practically disappeared. ■ ... J ; ' (Rec. July 16, 10.10 p.m.)' y . Eondon, 'July 16. correspondent of tlie "Manchester Guardian"' writes: "One of. tlid principal assets of the war .was our power to tell the exact truth from day to day about military operations. This asset has been lost. The German reports, when allowance is made for anoccasional exaggeration of their victories, arc, in their intelligent anticipation of events, quite as' reliable as our own. "It is necessary to make this clear, for we have several times made much of the inaccuracies in the German reports of military operations. An impartial American opinion ranks the truthfulness of the German reports ,of land l operations above our own. To many Englishmen this lack of frankness in ourofficial reports is the most discouraging'thing in the war."VAIN PROPHECY! BY| THE "'CROWN' PRINCE, Paris, July 15. 5" ! i r A German deserter in Holland! reports that when lis was fighting under the Crown Prince, it was generally understood that the' latter had undertaken to reach Paris before-July 14. TO COUNTER THE 'ASPHYXIATING GAS, (Rec.- July 16, 8.15 p.m.) ■ , .' Paris, July 16,Tho French Parliamentary 'Army Committee on asphyxiating gases has adopted a report providing for a method of parrying and retaliating on tho Germans'- tactics. DARING ATTACKS IN ALSACE GERMANS FORCED TO EVACUATE -METZERAL. , . . , . Paris i J" ] y 15. A communique states: "A ; Freneli eye-witness says that tho operations in tho valley of southern Fecht wore boldly conceived and dashingly executed. Tho alpine troops, mountaineers from Savoy and Dauphine, and battalions of tho line made a daring onrush which proved irresistible. Tho majority of tho trenches on the Braunkopf wero quickly captured, while on Hill 880 tlie infantry, piercing tho line, slid down tho declivities and took tho trenches in the rear, making prisoner two companies. Afterwards tho v/holo of Braunkopf was carried. The French wero imp&ded for sovoral days by machine-gun lira against the slopes, until dcspcrato trench fighting made them masters of Anlass. "The Germans, fearing to bo outflanked, and unablo to withstand our artillery, which fired the houses, had to evacuate Metzeral. and wero pursued to tho hills eastward and compelled to abandon Sondcrniwlt'. The Frelieh, taming their objective, held the whole lino from tho Feoht to SoadeNSflSlli aftcy