Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-01-13 | Page 8 | French Shelling the Railroads

FRENCH SHELLING THE RAILROADS I Paris, .Inn. 12. The Germans have! assumed a violent counter offensive1 against the advanced French positions j to the north and east of Sissons in a I desperate attempt to retrieve the' three lines of trenches more than a ! mile In length, captured irom them during the past four days of terific j fighting. Opening with a vigOUIDUB bombard-, ment shortly before midnight, the German Ger-man batteries shelled incessantly th French trenches all during the night and today the followed up the cannonade can-nonade with an attack against two of i the most advanced points of the new-1 lv-organized French line Against the! plateau of Perriers, on the north bank of the Aisne, to the east of the plateau ' and against 'spur Xo. 122." the prom-ontor prom-ontor which rises at the extreme I eastern edge of the plateau of Vregny, tnev delivered important attacks. Their object was to retake "spur 132," from which the French guns seriously menace their positions and threaten their line of railway communication, which now has been brought into range. When the report 3S sent from the front tonight the battle was still in i progress The French were hohllngl their own but the Germans were attacking at-tacking with unprecedented energy Earlier reports from this section of j the front gives news of the engage- j ment up to today Not only w rre the French aide to re-if re-if the repeated counter attacks of the J Germans, but in hurling them back upon their reserve positions they succeeded suc-ceeded in forcinp the retreating in- ' vaderg past their ten first line trenches trench-es to supporting positions In tho rear Theso newly made trenches were oc Cupled and held by the French.