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Show French and British Make Gains in Irresistible Onrush Against the German Positions on a Six-Mile Front, From the Village of Ginchy Down to the River Somme. GUILLEMONT IN HANDS OF HAIG Joffre Takes Le Forest and Clery Sur Somme by Storm; Both Villages Vil-lages Fortified; More Than 2000 Unwound-ed Unwound-ed Prisoners Captured First Day of the Drive. (Spc-ial fjiblo by Arranempnt with London Dailr Ti'leg'spli aticl International Newa Service.) LONDON, He.pt. 3. The "big push" of the allies on the Somme is once more in full swing. It was set. into motion again at noon today, when in one of the most rapid and best organized assaults yet witnessed wit-nessed in the Picardy campaign ' the French and British pushed their lines forward in an irresistible onrush against t he German posit ions on a front of more than six; miles, roughly, from the village of Ginchy down to the river Somme. The lion's share was achieved by the French, but the British, Brit-ish, too, gained considerable and important im-portant ground. The net strategic result of the day's battle is that the Franco-British line has been straightened out considerably, and that the French now stand at the very outskirts of (,'ombles, the important impor-tant railway town, to hold which the Germans have concentrated the pick of the kaiser's troops and the most powerful guns. Ferocious Battle in Progress. A battle of unprecedented ferocity is still in progress on the whole front. In detail the day's results are: The French captured by storm the fortified Villages of Le Forest, east of Maurepas, and Clery Sur Somme, holding hold-ing both against violent German counter coun-ter onslaughts. They took the whole German trench system north of Le Forest, For-est, along the road to CombJes, carrying carry-ing the fighting to the outskirts of that town. They pished ahead to the east at several points between Le Forest and Clery, thus adding to the menace of Perotme from the north. They took more than 2000 unwounded prisoners. n "a t 1 Di n in uains. The British, on their part, captured at last the wholo of the lonir and bitterly i fowp-ht -for villa pre of Outlleniont. They ; took part of t tie village of Ginehv and gained farther ground east of the Morjuot , farm. fc?everai hundred prisoners were : taken by them. i The .-lose co-operation be t ween the 'French and British armies is emphasized ! in the on'i'-ial statements issued bv both ; sides tonight. The Germans made a desperate but 'vain a ttcmnt to wrest from t he French the fruits of the latter's assault. A counter-attack with "strong effectives" broke forn under the French fire and the Teutons drew back in disorder, "leaving i numerous dead in the field." in t lie words ; of the I'a:'is niht communique. ! Furious Fighting at Verdun. At Verdun the day developed a series oT furious battles, as a result of which both swes made pahs. .At sundown the ficlitinsr was still raeinp with die utmost violence. The French war office- In i;s nicht slat-jment admits that after a series of unsuccessful and costly r.ssanlts tlie crmn prince's infantry pained a foothold foot-hold in a salient in the French line ;it Vauv Chn pi tie. where t he i ierm.-j r.s are trying to r-nak through toward Fort ruv':. the Inst, but iipust pwrful. bulwark bul-wark st ill se; a rati tilt t hem from Verdun proper n the right hank of the Mews This German success was counrf-r-l,a?. an- eo. however, by the French., who tnok several 'rencj-es east of Fleijry village and part of the. crst d om i i n ,r.;h Fleury jrd th Thiaumnnt f i -M n -makir.sr ?. prisoners, including five offi- Battles in Air. T:-f- roTiNits on th Sotniria fror-.t were ma'.kf.-'. bv me!? .-"rial cnca-.ja..T: ts. ir (Continued on Page Two.) BIG PUSH BE HUES J.G! IN ill (Continued from Page One.) which the P.ritish destroyed three German Ger-man machines and damaged four others. The loss of three British machines Is admitted. ad-mitted. Tiie French brought down four Gorman Gor-man aeroplanes on the Homme front and one In the Verdun aren. An extensive bom bins ra i1 was' carried car-ried out by the French on the German railway station of Jletz-Stiblons and on the military establishments north of Metz this afternoon. Sixty U'fl - mi Hi meter homhs were thrown on the latter and 21 11 bombs were dropped on nine widely separated German railway stations. French Statement. The text of the Paris statement reads: North of the Homme, after artillery artil-lery preparation, French infantry, in conjunction with the Mritish army, attacked at-tacked German positions reaching from the region north of Maurepas to the river. Our troops sw"ept away !arp;e enemy en-emy forces and carried all their objectives. ob-jectives. The villages of Forest and Clery-Sur-Somme are entirely In our possession. We have taken all the. German trendies along Ihe road from Fores I to Com hies. Ketween Fore.-L and Clery-Sur-Somme wc also carried all the enemy positions. German counter-attacks with heavy forces broke down under the fire of our batteries and the enemy retired in disordfr, leaving- numerous dead. I'p to tiie present the number of unwoitnded prisoners in our hands exceeds ex-ceeds 2000, while the captured war material includes twelve cannon taken in the single sector of Forest and fifty machine guns. On the right of the Mevtse (Verdun sector) the Germans made a series of violent attacks on our positions at Vaux and Ohapitre. The enemy had succeeded at the end of the afternoon In setting foot In one salient of outline, out-line, where the combat is continuing bitterly. FOUR BRITISH AND ONE DUTCH VESSEL SENT TO BOTTOM LnNDON, Sept. 3, 9:3. p. m. Lloyd's shipping- acemy today reported that the following" British steamships had been sunk: Duart, 3lnS tons, unarmed; steamer steam-er Slrathallam. 4-104 Ions, unarmed; Kel-iviniy. Kel-iviniy. 3140 tons, unarmed, crew and passengers pas-sengers saved; Masco tte, l'JT tons, of Leith. LONDON, Sept. 3. 9:30 a. m. A dispatch dis-patch to Renter's Telegram company from Amsterdam states that the Dutch sieamer Zeeranrend has been torpedoed. The crew was saved. The Zeeranrend was 147 feet Ions: and of -62 tons gross. She was built in 1913 and was owned in Rotterdam. JAPAN MAKES MORE DEMANDS ON CHINA PKK1XG. Sept. 3. Baron Gonsuke Uayashi. the Japanese minister to Ghlna, has presented to the Chinese foreign office of-fice four demands for .settlement of the -lash between Chinese and Japanese troops at Cheng Chiat un. eastern Mongolia. Mon-golia. August K:. when fifty Chinese and seventeen Japanese were killed or wounded. wound-ed. The Japanese demands follow: "First. Dismissal of tiie Chinese .officers .offi-cers in command of the troops. "Second. The withdrawal of Chinese troops from t lie district in which the trouble trou-ble occurred. "Third. Indemnification of the families of the Japanese killed. "Fourth. The .granting to Japanese of police rights in inner .Mongolia." Chinese officials regard the demands as irtuaily an elimination of Chinese authority au-thority In inner Mongolia. f 'hen Shir.-Tao, the aiding Chinese minister min-ister of foreign aftairs, is withholding; his reply to Japan until full reports are available avail-able from a special agent who lias been sent to Oheng-Chki tun. DYSENTERY AMONG TROOPS ON' BORDER PASO, Sept. 3. The Fourth Ohio inianlry arrived here late todav and marched, with their band plaving,' to th camp already prepared near Fort Fdiss Tin Scond and Third Kentuckv infantrv. wi'h ambulance and signal corps, are expected ex-pected to detrain some time tonighi. This will bring the national u;trd ami regular reg-ular contingent in the neighborhood of El Paso to about 4(,uOU men. Dysentery has made its appearance among tiie troops on ihe border, according accord-ing 10 a general ordfr posted in the local camps Lfuticui. wnicb warns the men against: drinking river and well water and j e:i t ing uncooked frcus and green veue- tahies. The men are told that 'he city water, which is piped to the camps, is uninfected. un-infected. Army officers state that dyscnterv has been stamped out in ;hp punitive, evnoui-tion. evnoui-tion. it was dee to the men drinking dlt'-h water. Wells were sunk in the ev-peditionarv ev-peditionarv camps and a pure supnlv was obtained. |