| Show e. e e. e e 1 I ALLIES RIVE DRIVE a TOWARD BILE I t I I Battle for Lens Is Gr Greet Great at Object on Western Front I Terrific Counter Att Attack k Believed to Be Raging North of Arras J With final Mastery o of f This Important Point at at Stake BERLIN Sept 30 via London Loss Loss of another position in in France to the thc allies as a r result of the great battle now in progress is u announced in the official It statement temen from the war office The Germans lost hill No LONDON Sept The 30 The g great cat struggle on the western I front has now resolved itself dearly clearly into a battle for Lens in Pas de Calais nine miles mites northeast of Arras The capture of this I town with its d into the I Ithe radiating railways I bring foreground the possibility of retaking Lille LUte Both north and south of Lens ens the allies hold high ground I dominating the town town the the British on hill No 70 th the French on hill No J HO 40 the high crest between M. M Souchez and Vimy The official r report port froin Paris aris l st W flight s said i merely merel that Mat this crest cresta had been r reached ed so so tl that a t p pr Sum bly y a t irY c co n fer T at H tack k is raging th there r today with final mast mastery ry of this tUis imp important position I at sta stake e. e R Rain in fog Jo and soggy ground round have haye been hampering both j the co contenders tenders and limiting the activities of aircraft A few days days' of clear dry weather eather might have a marked bearing on develop develop- develop I ments The Trie offensive of the allies thus far has been confined to stretches stretch s of the front amounting to less than thirty miles in all The general belief in England is that these att attacks are only the prelude to what is coming At any rate the public would be dis disappointed disappointed dis- dis I dis-I appointed if the movement were not sustained There Is tho the usual speculation as to the shifting of German forces from tho the cast east to the west although anything like Uke reliable Information is lacking Against the report that some Prussian guards have been hurrIed hurried hurried hur hur- ried west we t there are arc rumors that Field Marshal von Hindenburg still benton bent on taken taking has been reinforced heavily Moreover the AustrIans judging from their new successes In the south apparently have received fresh troops The victory of or the British over the Turks In Mesopotamia brings Gen Sir John Nixons Nixon's men within ICO IGO miles mUes of Bagdad The Tiie news came unheralded to London as the tho fighting In that quarter has hao been almost forgotten Whether the British will try to push on to Bagdad Is 18 problematical problematical but the tho consensus of opinion here Is s that the resistance of or the I Turks in to this region has been cru crushed Some sections of or the British press see In this victory the addition of another British colony Whatever Is done with the tho Turks elsewhere says the Pall Mall I Gazette they thoy can never be allowed to resume their blood stained way in the Euphrates valley o |
