Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-12 | Page 8 | Gains Made by French Forces

oo GAINS MADE BY FRENCHJORCES London, Jan 11 Gains of great military value were reported to the Paris war office today from the battle bat-tle front about Soissons. Though two other widely separated sections of the line at La Boiselle (northeast of Albert) and bo the north oi Perthes-Jes-Hurlus (to the west of Verdun) the fighting in the Soissons region, where new bodies of French troops and additional guns have been brought up to force back the com- bined armies of Generals Von Kluck and Von Heeringen, is the most Important. Im-portant. Official admission was made today , in the Berlin statement of the advance ad-vance of the French on this section of the front, where the French claim to have captured two lines oi the enemy's trenches on a front about 500 yards long. Control Important. The French statement adds the significant sig-nificant not1 that the trenches reported re-ported today as taken on spur No. 131'. to the northeast of the town, extend to the east of those captured by them on January 8 This further victory' places the troops of Genera! Joffrc in absolute control of the whole spur No. 112. which is the military designation of a promontory of commanding position al the northern north-ern extremity of the plateau of Vregny, on the north bank of the Aisne. From this spur the French gunners I can command the whole of this sec tion by direct fire, a considerable ad vantage, although the Indirect fire (firing at unseen objects by ranges iven by observers) has been eminently emin-ently successful