SLAUGHTER.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

SLAUGHTER.

TEIMMIiLE HA ND-TO-HANP FIGHTING. <JERMANS MAKE TEN ATTACKS IN A WEEK. ! EIJiENCIi MAKE A .SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE. l*aris, iJ a:)i iiiti y <J J - AJjuubt continuous and te-rribio liaiid-to-ha<ml lighting look place at Aritoi.s for 72 hours. Tthe Germans made ten attacks in U/ weok, but with only .slight success i at Fris-o. TJio French officers consider the operations represent the. wiciny's maximum elfort. The G<;rinijuift in Mio liorlli sari'ificwl nearly a division, and tliu. groint<l sib Nc'itvillo uas so lioOy conit'.slod tliiiti I'ho tlcad romaiiU'd unlniriod. Many of tlio enemy's wounded were lof'l io die. Soiitiliward of Jj<"iis 'trenelicii wove taken and re-tak<:ii. Tl)o Germans, lower <|ow.n the> line, made :t jjas ailaek with koukj s>urcoss. The German infantry stormed ihe trenches over a front of nearly un mile, i l)ut me(b with a, des])ora,te <lf!J'e.iice. I The slaughter was terrific, Entire eompa.Diies of tilie enemy w(M'o inowet) down. There wa,s fierce in the cralers. Wheiii yenades \r<vre exhausted the antagonist fought with their hands. The French have already ix'oovercd much ground. A oomirmniqno says: Wo carried out a- deslriietive lire on tlio iHiomy'.s depots at Sallavunines, sontb-easb of L<ms, and Geruisi.n parks and Livonacs norLli of Vimy. Wo also dcetroy<)il a.n enemy work opposito Soupix, n.ortiji of the Aisno., anii/ihilat/inp; the garrison.