POSITIONS RECAPTURED IN ALSACE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 1 July 1915, Page 5

POSITIONS RECAPTURED IN ALSACE.

QUIET : AY ELSEWHERE. A GERMAN LEADER INTERVIEWED. PARIS, June 30. Official.—We recaptured on Tuesday all the positions we previously occupied east of Metzeral. Matters are quiet elsewhere. NEW YORK, June 30. Prince Rupprecht, in an interview with a Times' correspondent, referring to the Bavarians smashing the Russians (on the eastern front), said: "They were the hammer and-1 only the anvil. Here (on the western front) my job is to hold out." The French, he said, had used three or four million shells in their attack on his army for 6ix weeks. General Joffre's only hope of success would have been a break,but 'throughout the Bavarian line is unbroken at a single point. - He estimated the French losses at 60,000 during that period.