Show BRITISH AND FRENCH HOLD GAINS GERMANS FAIL IN REPEATED DESPERATE ATTACKS ATTACKS' TO RECOVER LOST POSITIONS Thousands of Lives Sacrificed and andOver andOver andOver Over Prisoners Taken by Allies in Offensive Declared by to Have Been Failure London Although Although Field Marshal Ton on and aud Emperor William Wllliam assert that the French Anglo-French offensive Oil on the western front hits has failed after seven weeks of or effort u a French official official of of- statement declares that the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans issans lost more than r prisoners alone during danzig the l French lench and und British drives against the time German lines Emperor William writes the German empress that the time fighting in France has r reached n a certain conclusion Since April 1 the British have ha advanced advanced ad ad- on a front of twenty miles from Loos to south of Bullecourt to an nn extreme extreme ex ex- depth of f six miles ashes east of Arras Arms Field Marshal Haig's Haigs men have taken VImy ridge dominating the plains to and have virtually surrounded Lens and St. St Quentin and have held their gains ains against I desperate te and repeated re re- Dated German attacks while inflicting inflicting inflicting inflict inflict- ing heavy hear losses losse In Iii the same time the time French have advanced along a mile fifteen front north of the Aisne and seized the time heights dominating dominating the time valley of of th thAnette tim th Anette Allette river the last natural defense delouse before Laon Luau In Champagne the French troops In Iti intrepid attacks have lUHe gained the tIme heights of Mont the time Casque time the Teton leton and Mont Taut Haut east of All the time French gains gains' have b been en held Repeated attacks by hy the time German crown prince against the captured captured cap cap- positions have been made malle without with with- out nit avail tumid and he lie has expended thou thousands thousands sands of lives in iii fruitless efforts to tole le regain aln tl tile the e lost ground More than 1000 officers were vere included ed in the total of G prisoners I cap caP- Enormous quantities of material material ma ma- tonal were taken from the time Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans titans including heavy and field guns uns 1000 machine guns gnus and man many trench guns guilis I Emperor William also has hiss congratulated latell I Emperor Charles on the time failure of the tIme Italian attacks the Isonzo from PIa Plava va to the sea but General Cadorna's Cadorna's Ca- Ca dornas dorna's troops have gained the time Vodice ridge lidge and have made Impo important tant mid ad- i vances on the Carso The Time Italians u taking taking tak tuk- add added d to their gains on omi Friday Irida by ing ng Austrian positions on omi u n front of one and a quarter miles to a n depth of tOO yards south of on omm one of the time main roads to tu Triest Announcement b by the Germans that they had captured a French position 1000 yards ards in length northeast or of Soissons Sos Sols s sons ns and amid a British air uil raW raid upon German German German Ger Ger- man bases basses along the German coast const constitute the chief news developments developments develop develop- I ments meats in the war theatres Saturday t |