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Show ATTflCKS French and British Meet Ten Assaults in Darkness Dark-ness on September 15 and Gain About Six Miles, and Capture 600 Prisoners on September Septem-ber 17. LOSSES CONTINUE GREATEST OF WAR French Are Rushing Big Guns in Hope of Breaking Break-ing the Enemy's Line; German Attempt to Retake Rheims Is Not Successful. Spo al Cab e br Arraagemon irfli Ixinilon Da y Te eg aph and Interna onal News Se v e LONDON Sept. 19 (Saturday) William Maxwell, correspondent of the International News Service and the London Daily Telegraph, In a dispatch early today says that a French officer 1nst the scene of the battle of the Alsne reports that one corps of the enemy has been surrounded by the English and French near the Aisno and their position seemed hopeless when the officer left A flag of truce had been sent demanding the sur render of the German corps but it was rejected The fight was then continued relentlessly with no re suit up to the hour of the officer 3 departure Spe a Cab e bj Arrangement w h London Dal f Te egraph and In ernationa New. Serv e ) PAEIS Sept 18 The b g guns are to dec de the battle of the A sne The struggle is so t tame that mere numer ical strength even when that strength s counted in the null ons has proved tself inadequate to force the issue to a dec sive result To hurl more of these human aton s forward from the r intrenched pos t ona aga nst the deadly f re of the r val bat teries of artillery has been found sui cidal even by the Germans whoso utter disregard for losses has been the won der of the war The rrench are rushing more big guns to the attack m an effort to dislodge the Germans from the intrenched fort f ed posit ons they st 11 ma nta n on the he ghts north of the A sne desp te the six days of fur ous onsla ght which cont nues with unabated f orceness Eyewitness Picture An account of the f e days battle on the A sne river wh ch 1 e descr be I as the f erceBt in the western theat r s nee the beginn ng of the war was g en by a French off er who arr ved n Par 3 today On the morn ng of the 14th the off cer sa d the Germans called a halt but by afte noon the battle had become general All the next day tl e battle wag of a d ng dong nature the Germans evidently awa t ng rc nforce ments Dur ng the n gl t however they le livered a fur 0 s attack on the extreme left but the Br t sh and J ren 1 troops gallantly n ct the onslaught repuls ng the Germans no fewer than ton t mes w th fearful losses The Germans st 11 an e on how e er seek ng to p erce the P ench e There had been noth ), I kc t s the beg nn ng of the a ag He enemy hurled denso masses of t 00 s at us n a supreme endea or to c or forward progress but wl law ame we Bt 11 held the os t on an 1 e cn h d ga ne ground si (,htl Tl e art Her d el was ont nued througl 0 t the next ay The or ng of he th agn saw lespcrata (Continued on Page Eight.) ALLIES ADVM -"""" fT- a r-r- 1 . . . n fightis; mans bsefeH lenseB. jH From nxtfH e en stretcHH are fisttiB meajis deLH rams haTtH imps able jH for ttl' themselTeH loose oa til general rtalH great arUiqH Dispatel office sroijH lent iiataH nm wbtH OTsne to Bal forward dH the isvai for tfet.r ciiH neavr IqssmH ma as aarejH f icafaoa lrgH (aim fnniH Sonne rejigH the lets oiH trne wrA jH f ehucjr ii jH ained brlH tactmjr iajH order utiH ereater. Prestrre af Pnnce FndH Pnace SaH Saippes rajf rcored tli has abaadMH MooMliunH East tt tkH distnrt. tH ehanEcd. frostier " are beuf aflH EIlxc aaiB fron'yitr taH ra-neeanljH Pans todaH GernuuisnH tor all H |