Show 1 I FURTHER ADVANCE MADE BY ALLIES Powerful German Defenses Around Loos Captured and Attack Launched Against Third Line in Th That t Region Regio and Second in Champagne BRITISH SECURE HOLD ON LENS-LA LENS BASSEE ROAD French Troops Within Less Than Two Miles of Railway Behind German German- Positions and Big Guns May Cut CutOff CutOff CutOff Off Enemy's Enemy s Communications IMPORTANT SUCCESS WON L T Sept 28 In In Champagne LJ the time French arc attacking the tho Gelman Gel Gety man second line of trenches and ar are makin making further pr progress but seeming seemingly ly Iv the allies' allies offensive offense e movement is isI I not ot being carried ean on with the same impetuosity which characterized th the thi first finot two days clays of the operations The successes won are recognized a as a tr very r important but the hc main object which is to break through the Genn Germar lines has bas not yet et been been- accomplished Both the British and n-d n French great greath have ha Improved their p positions end and nd by th the they can dominate the G German lines el er communication their next attempt It win a decisive decisivo victory victor should be mad easier casler in the view of ot experts here Strong Positions Captured Field Marshal Sir John French re reports reports re- re ports porte the capture of ot powerful German defenses around Loos Loo where the number num nurn- her ber of prisoners taken b by tho the British has reached tort forty machine guns being taken and many destroyed red Th The British have o captured the first anI and second lines and are heavily engaged In ht an attack on the third The French continue to push forward east o of Souchez aiming at tho the heights of d Vim which command the plain to tho the east while the British to tho the north are ore making s secure ure their hold on the tha La Lens road rond and are beating off the German counterattacks The Tho battle In Champagne is over a sixteen mile front where hero the tho French arc are attacking and now are within tho the German positions position and which has been so 50 useful to them in moving mo troops and supplies S s to threatened points With Uh the French guns within elLS easy range ranso th the railway Is rendered useless As usual there Is a great divergence between the tho German and French of official of- of t- t accounts of the battles The Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans claim all the French rench attacks have b been cn repulsed and that a number of ot prisoners have ha been captured It Is the tho same with regard to tho the crown princes prince's offensive o In the tho Ar- Ar gonne Jonne Whereas this is described by bythe bytho bytho tho the French as an nn Important action tho the Germans sn say o It Is a minor on one designed to Improve e the situation and that the desired result has been achieved Troop Drought Brought ht From rom 10 Kant East Th The French official report tonight t contains the tho significant statement that among the Germans taken prisoners were men of the guard corps who had b been en brought back from tho the Russian front a few days ago This would seem to Indicate that the Ger Austro-Ger- Ger Germans mans have ha been compelled to weaken to some extent their eastern battle battlefront battlefront front In order to reinforce those sec eec sections of ot th the western line Details from unofficial sources of the tho heavy bombardment which preceded preceded preceded pre pre- ceded the tho allied attack Saturday de described tle- tle scribed tho German Gennan lines as smothered In dust under the tho hall of shells their parapets melted away wn and their barbed wire Ira entanglements disappeared So thunderous was the on onslaught onslaught on- on slaught ht that persons forty miles mIJe distant dis dis- distant tant were awakened from their sleep When hen the French rench ceased their shelling of the trenches In Champa Champagne ne and charged tho the German trenches they found the Germans stupefied by tho effects of oC the artillery fire gunners being belm mixed with Infantrymen and all of them huddled around the field pieces pl es heavy Fighting In 10 inn There has been no cess cessation of or tho the heavy henvy fighting on tho the Russian front From Riga down to the armies are contesting Inch e of ot tho the ground and at least four Cour separate battles battJes are aro In progress Field Marshal 1 von Hindenburg Hin- Hin denburg has resumed his effort cHort to reach k which town has been deI de- de I him so man many times The Germans announce that tho the Russians have ha been driven from t two wo successive lines of trenches to tho the southwest of oC D Except for Field Marshal Mughal von Muck Mack ensen who Is held in the tho Pripet marshes all the German generals r re report report re- re port advances ancel even on General von van Lin- Lin slogan rn whoso whose arm army was handled rather roughly b by tho the Russians in having with the aid of at strong r reinforcements rein ln- ln been able to take tako the Initiative initiative ath a again Ln In addition to to recapturing In ing Lutsk he line has crossed tho the rh river r bol below bolOw w that fortress In the Russian general Ivanoff Ivanoff Ivan Ivan- off is still holding the back and Is 15 himself gaining ground ground |