BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK AT NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13728, 17 March 1915, Page 5

BRILLIANT FRENCH ATTACK AT NOTRE DAME DE LORETTE.

THREE LINES OF TRENCHES

CAPTURED.

SERIOUS FIGHTING AT OTHER

POINTS.

WESTERN PART OF VAUQUOIS

TAKEN.

(Received March 16, 10.5 p.m.) Paris, March 16

Official. —French infantry by a brilliant attack captured three lines of trenches on the spur at Notre Dame de Lorette, and reached the edge of the plateau. They took a hundred prisoners, and blew up an ammunition- store. They also blew up several German trenches at Ecurie and Rochincourt.

Serious fighting occurred at Albert, north-west of Nouvron Woods, northeast of Souain, and north-west of Perthes.

Numerous counter-attacks were repulsed in the Argonne and the Bois le Pretre.

Our. infantry captured the western part of Vauquois, making numerous prisoners.