THE ENEMY'S REPORT "GREAT OFFENSIVE HELD UP"

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 77, 29 September 1915, Page 7

THE ENEMY'S REPORT "GREAT OFFENSIVE HELD UP"

AMSTERDAM, 28th September. A German communique states : Warships continue isolated shots in the environs of Middelkerke. The enemy has not renewed his attacks south-west of Lille, where our cownter-attacks arrested the great offensive. Several isolated attacks north and south of Loos collapsed, with English losses. Attacks on both sides of Arras were bloodily repulsed. We captured twenty-five officers, 2600 men, and fourteen machine-guris. The French offensive at Reims and in the Argonne has not progressed. It was especially severe on fche road between Sommepy and Suippes, also north of Beausejour Farm, where it failed, with very heavy losses. We took prisoner forty officers and 390 men. We shot down three aeroplanes, including a great French battle aeroplane. There have been aerial battles north-east of Ypres and south-west of Lille. Two French aeroplanes were brought down in the Champagne region. FRENCH WAR FINANCE months, including the war, was £74,800,000 monthly. -,__-_,,.,,._ „„„, The estimated monthly expenditure for MEETING THE GREAT BILL. the coming quarter will be £83,000,000 The Chairman of the Finance CommitPARIS, 28tli September. tee announced that an important loan A Senate memorandum shows that the was pending. Hitherto they had met total credits, received and pending the expenditure without much difnculty f amount to 1200 millions sterling. * but a more radical solution of tha pro_.s^B._esE«aditurg for the js&tt th?^ bjgaa wa^_ascs*i*sx,