Show GERMANS REGAIN POSITIONS LOST NEAR SOUCHEZ Cemetery Wrested From French in Hand to Hand Fighting With Bomb and Bayonet Following Use of Gas FIERCE BATTLE BEING WAGED IN THAT QUARTER I Destruction of British Position on Hill 60 Near Ypres Scene of One of Bloodiest Battles of War Claimed by Germans CHECKED IN EAST T ONDON July l 12 From From what appeared ap- ap lJ to be bo a n lull hill on the western front has sprung suddenly some of or the most fe severe fere re fighting in months with the thc Germans the tho aggressors nn and vie victors ors The Time cemetery seven miles north of Arms Aims and ami half that I distance southwest of Lens has been 1 wrested from the French after a n German German Ger Ger- man ns as attack followed by to hand-to- hand fj fighting ht n with bomb and bayo hayo- net Time The French admit tills this loss and antI andare are arc fi to reb regain in the tile ground which whir they had won fl at hea heavy cost Slowly time the French been tightening tighten In ing their grip on the village c of Souchez Sou- Sou chez until the tho Germans aware that thit the tho capture of their entire position would ho he an Important step tcp In iii the time Trench French of offensive offensive of- of toward Lens and Lille Lilie launched a terrific counter stroke which left them master of ot time the shattered burial ground with more moro than prisoners In their hands bands FI Fighting among the h houses which fringe o the thu Western edge of ot the town still rages races There has hall also been a 1 renewal of or activity activity ac ac- ac- ac tivit In other areas of ot franco Bianco rance and Bel- Bel glum but nothing comparable with tho the strategic Importance of or the Souchez struggle Je Tho rho Germans Ja lay claim to the tho destruction of or tho Britten position on hill bill 60 near Ypres scene of or ono one of or tv J Uie war butt but tills finds no confirmation from either Fr French or British sources The po position In Poland and has not yet yot ot rt reached a 0 crisis but the public Is rather weary wean of or following tho the complexities of ot the Russian retirement and so long hong as os Warsaw appears to be beIn beIn bein In no Immediate danger danber Is turning to the west hazarding guesses as to whether the British and antI French or the Germans will be bc the first to take the tho general ral offensive With the arrival of or midsummer this Is a big question for tor It ItIs ItIs itis Is felt that th one ono side or the other must I strike before Jn long otherwise another winter of ot trench fighting lighting Is Inevitable Tile The Italian attack against Austria I Is said Bald to be gaining In Intensity but the tho Vienna official statement admits no loss Joss of or ground I |