Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-23 | Page 2 | Allies Keep on Bombarding Teuton Enemy

ALLIES KEEP Oi bombahdihg teomihit Sir John French Reports on Operations on the Western Front and Refers to the Fighting at Loos. LOXPOX, Nov. 22. FieM Marshal Sir Jobn Freuch, in his report from the front. isMieil touiiit, iloscribed briefly :in organized bombardment by the British Brit-ish artillery of the German lines, and , refers aain to Hie fighting in October around Loos. Of the German ''Ounter- attack on October 8 Field -Marshal; Kremh had previously reported that the ! German losses were very heavy, "somel SOOn or 9U00 dead beiux left in front I of the "British and French trenches."' . In denying this the German official statement sent out ou Sunday, Xovem-her Xovem-her 21, said: 'This was a pure invention, as the number of dead and mi " sine, including Those who died later of wound?, was only 7 63." Confirms Estimate. Field Marshal French, in his latest report, declares that the German communication com-munication refers only to one small por-tiou por-tiou of the battlefield and reiterates that all information confirms his original orig-inal estimate. The text of the statement state-ment follows: Our artillery has during the yast four days carried out an organized bombardment of many portions oi the hostile lines with great effect. The enemy's artillery has been active north of Loos, east uf Arrnentie-.es and east of Ypres. A German aeroplane landed within our lines southwest of Ypres on November No-vember 3 9. The pilot and observer, who stated that they had lost their way, were captured. The machine was not damaged. German Report Untrue. Statements tn the German report of the Ulst regarding our front are in-t-orreeit in every particular. The report states that a large mine was successfully success-fully exploded in our positions on the Ypres -Zonnebeke railway. The mine in question exploded well in front of our trenches. It cau?ed no damage and no casualties, and we have occupied occu-pied the ground on either side of the crater. Th enemy made air raid on Pop-peringhe Pop-peringhe on November IS and 20. No damage whatever was done to the railway or any building tn the fire raid. Two soldiers were wounded and :o'ir cows were killed. In the second raid one bomb caused casualties to right men. None of the ot hers had any effect. Attempt to Deceive. With regard to the enemy's denial of my i Field Marsual French's i reported' re-ported' estimate of his loss in killed on k-toher S, he is, apparently, attempting attempt-ing deceive by referring to oniy one si. all portion of the ban. of l.rj, while mv iep'jrt referred to the whole at-tark at-tark on 0-toner . The enemy at- :tcke not only to the sou; h west of ! sjo. but also so jtheast and nnrth-ea! nnrth-ea! of that pla ?. All further infor-inat infor-inat ion uMained. including this re- oi t '.if the casualties southwest of ' L'.'O-s. confirms mv original estimate.