ANOTHER FRENCH ADVANCE

Evening Star, Issue 15929, 8 October 1915, Page 3

ANOTHER FRENCH ADVANCE

IN THE CHAMPAGNE. NEARING ENEMY LATERAL COMMUNICATIONS. Press Association—By Tcirgraph—Copyright. PARTS, October 7. A communique states; Our action in the Champagne has secured fresh results. '.Hie infantry, after thorough artillery preparations, assaulted and carried the village of Tahuxe and summit of heights at Tahuie (192 ft), halfway between Bonaiu and Camay (?). We have also progressed in the vicinity of the Navarin Farm, between Souain and Soumecy. Tlie prisoners already number over 1,000. There are only severe artillery duels elsewhere. Tahure is in the centre section of the German line, which is now being attacked. of which it is the key. Tahure is only one mile and a-half from the German . supply railway running parallel with their Champagne front. I ANXIETY IN GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, October 7. There is excitement in Germany ever the commencement of another big Fiench offensive in. the Champagne, which is announced in to night’s German communique. THE REGENT ADVANCE. TROOPS’ ELAN RAISED. London ’Times* and Sydney ‘Sun* Services. LONDON, October 6 A correspondent at the front, after describing the terrible devastation wrought upon the trenches in the recent offensive, says: “ The British and French soldiers have been greatly heartened and quickened with, a new hope of success. A famous French general remarked that if the French once get their tails up they will carry the battlement though it reached the heavens.” TYPICAL TACTICS. LONDON,. October 6. ‘He Petit Parisian’ states that as the German prisoners were being removed from the trenches at Sonchcz German machine guns were turned on them. BATTLE PICTURES, PARIS, October 7. ■. A French soldier gives a harrowing dcjeription of the Champagne battlefield, as seen while lie was searching for fallen comrades. There was German barbed wire only 50 yards from the French first line of trenches. The effects of the terrible bombardment were to be seen, everywhere. The soil was burst open by shells, and amid the twisted wive it was impossible to go 50 yards from the Gorman trenches without seeing bodies shattered by the explosions. Sometimes several corpses were- twisted together. Some had their arms raised, unsupported. One was found leaning against the trench, in tlie act of taking aim, without a rifle, though the arms and fingers were sticking stiffly in the air. He passed the bodies of more Zouaves and Algerians in front of The second lino of trenches, whom the machine guns had mown down. He also saw several abandoned machine guns on the border of the' wned, which cost the French dearly. The wood itself was thickly strewn with German 'lead. The French advanced at this mint for five miles and a-half in a straight Fie met a- wounded man, who said with Ti'Tomm ; “At last wo are going ahead. Tv.s time it is warfare.”