THE TERRIBLE ARRAS CONFLICT

New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9076, 22 June 1915, Page 5

THE TERRIBLE ARRAS CONFLICT

GRODEK BATTLE

GUNS AUDIBLE IN LEMBERG

PASSES FOR Id,ooo RUSSIANS

The French offensive from Lorette to Neuville squeezed 150,000 Germans into a front of four and a-half miles, where they were sacrificed in a despair ing effort to save the remnants of tho German defensive system. Whole ranks of tho enemy were wiped out by the French artillery, the bombardment being followed by bayonet charges, when the enemy was incapable of resisting. Sir John French has personally thanked the Third Cavalry Division for their wonderful performance in the trenches at Ypres. Progress is reported north of Arras, on tho heights of the Mouse, at a centre of resistanct in Lorraine, and in the valley of the Fecht. The villages north of Arras are reduced to jumbled heaps of brick and mortar. Tho Buval position was nicknamed by the French I‘Hell’s Mouth.”

Petrograd reports that the enemy’s vanguards attempted to brea! through tho defiles between the Grodek lakes, but were repulsed. The fighting continues. A Berlin message states that General Maokpnsen’s armies have “captured the Grodek positions.” A later Russian message states that the guns are audible at Lemberg, and that passes have been issued to 10,000 Russians to leave the town.