WESTERN BATTLES

Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 8

WESTERN BATTLES

GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT BITTER FIGHTING; LOSSES ADMITTED. (Received October 1, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, 29th September. A Berlin communique states) : The enemy continued his efforts on Wednesday to break through in the Champagne only. We blew up a position occupied by two companies of English troops southward of the Ypres-Menin road. Our counter-attack north, of Loos progressed slowly. \ The French penetrated two small sections of our lines southward of Souchez. Fighting continues. We repulsed the French attacks south of Arras. ' Bitter battles have been' fought between Reims and the Argonne. An enemy brigade southwards of St. Marie broke through our outer line of trenches, and encountered our reserves, who captured eight hundred and exterminated the remainder. Other French attacks on the Sommepy-Souain-road were repulsed after bitter hand-to-hand fighting. We lost Height 191, north of Massiges, which was badly exposed to the enemy's flanking fire. TREMENDOUS BOMBARDMENT" (Received October 1, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 30th September. . I The Kolnische Zeitung states that there has been extraordinarily severe fighting on the centre front, east of Aubreville. The enemy attacked under the protection of the heaviest artillery fire, surpassing that of the battle on the 25th. The French were repulsed with severe loss. The weather is bad, but clearing up.