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ding between the Meuge and the Moselle and in the LOTTa@Ing.. on of both “q* and Germans. nCt * sarreafes or ENBNY COUNTERâ€"ATTAOKBD.. . ;;)| & Sept. 27.â€"â€"The Official statement says: In the Artois district ‘maintained our positions to the â€" east of Souchez. .Our advance y reported as having reached.the destroyed telegraph line ts #the | #f the Lus, has not, as a mattgr ol fact, passedâ€"the orchards of La mpd the highways from Arras to Lille. This advance, however, . has @4 all points maintained. ilong the front to the south of the River (Somme there has,been mg with bombs and torpedpes in the vicinity of Andrechy. Our artilâ€" ; vigorously : counterâ€"attacked a battery of the enemy .. which . were pnading our positions at Quennevieres. F ;))-‘- Champagne district the fighting has been going on with tenaâ€" mlong all the front. We have accupied at sgveral poinls, notably at # Briset to the mnorth of the Wacquaes farm,. several positiong in FCar :‘ hew lines where certain detachments of the enemy had been abl¢ to Fhe previous statement that we NA¢ C2P90T00 4* 20000000 Cmamâ€" . We have taken prisoners 300 German officers in the Chamâ€" trict. the Meuse and the Moselle and in the Lorraine district there Severe artillery fightimg on bothâ€"sides., A violent storm in the 1 L=d 1 m d y London, Sept. 26.â€"The Bulgarian Government _ this motning .oMqially imunicated to the powers a note stating in the: most categorical fasâ€" ® that the mobilization of the Bulgarian army was ordered in _ the M intérest and that it had not the slightest offensive character. The note states that "entry .of Bulgaria into a state of armed neuâ€" ity: is"explainedâ€" by changes which recently occurred in theâ€"political sitâ€" ,*‘ and that "Bulgaria has not the slightest aggressive intention i'l; firmly resolved to be fully armed to defend her rights and indeâ€" 32 + The â€"ofcial note to the~powers was dispatched. 4rom : Sofia on Sepâ€" wber 23, so that it was framed before Greek mobilization had been deâ€" iber â€"23, so that it was iramed bélore WTee® moUll" xi upon, . Dr. Ghenadief, former Bulgarian foteign minister, Sofa cabinet is :reported to be a possibility, has his,pro%entente views, and it is believed here thi m of the Government continuing its good relations 1 L1ES MABE TREMENDOUS GAING ; ALONG ENTIRE WESTERN FRONT: > 20â€"000 CERMIAN PRISONERS TAKEAN 9MM the Sea to Verdun the British, French and Bolgian ‘@orces Assume the Offensive â€" General French‘s Army Takes Five Miles of Teuton Positions. EEARLAMI SOVERNMENT NOTIAES .. POWERS SXE INTENBS NO OFFENSNE oudon,.iSept. 26. â€"The great drive Ahe allies has . already carried m far into the German positions m the sea to Verdun for a greater in than they have registered since i \bmgitle oT the ‘Marne. : two days the allies have taken E than 20;000 _ prisoners, more 80 field guns, an unnumbered @nt cof machine guns and vast of material. â€" They _ have ed Gétiman â€" positions _ in m&rfie on a front of more than h tnites to a depth ranging from s ~ of a mile to two miles ; have occupied Hill No. | ‘a mile north of Lens, in the , the mining section of northâ€" h , and threaten to outflank ? ans there; have occupied the yillage of Souchez, north _ of s m have broken the German on both sides of La Bassee Canâ€" w»â€"â€"width of five miles and . a h tl,m yards, capturing . the Loos. hag, for the moment: suspended.all epefations in EsA (Ghenadief, former Bulgarian foteign minister, whose inclusion . in fia cabinet is reported to be a pPossibility, has been known lately .proâ€"entente views, and it is believed here that unless he was cerâ€" the GOV%nt continuing its good relations with the entente powâ€" avould snOt| have assured them of Jhis um:}.‘ 4 * themselves ; JOFFRE TAKEs FtFTEEXN MILES OF HUN ENTRENCHMENTS pgm‘n War Germans Admit Loss E:f' %fiemm for more awile. over : a wide section . of Jns . bag Ap wapaitamaligl yodâ€" wl sses on both sides are . Teâ€" P ‘ . Have hqmflul. Ervery A Theory Disproved. ‘of destruction has beén _ The most important gains . have ‘Sthe Germans and alties in been made by the French, who diâ€" éomflict which is stilfl tagâ€" recting their chicf attacks against , ith no signs of @bate the Germans _ in Champagne and ‘ of bodi¢s are lying north of Arras, have swept . forward Aot more tham 100 miles. for smashing gains, which utterly m‘ 'n on the offensive disprove the theory that both . sides a- woeording . to _ reports were so "dug in‘ on the western ‘Marshal Sit John French, frony that open field operations were on Both Sides â€" Violgnt Storm in the Artois Region . in Northwestern CAPTURED 300 Uimce GERMAN OFFICERS had captured 200 German Officers is 300 German officers in the Chamâ€" in command of the British, and offâ€" cial communiques of the War Office at Paris. â€" On every section of the front they have cut deeply into the German lines menacing the Teuton positions around Verdun, where the Crown Prince spent thousands of lives, and before Lens, the great mining city. German Crown Prince‘s Army is a Imperilled. A In Champagne and to the north of Arras the French have made particuâ€" larly heavy gains. Every yard taken in the former district adds peril to the dangerous German salient beforeâ€" Verdun, _ while in the latter sector the allies have already attained great er results than they did in a month of fighting last May. The terrific drine was launched afâ€" ter â€" an unprecedented bombardment of the entire front, which lasted _ in some â€" places for more than seventy hours. Coâ€"operating with tne land lbattcrirs in this bremendous shelling, batteries in this bremenaous British and French warships n-‘l:'.‘.s...., annsct noured tOnS . and . iron into the German especially around Zeebrugge al and subma ..> base, and port. TN Continues With this district OF 200 of___lead detences, at Nien oo o0 °es e anga22 * *HP * oN THE WEST FRQONT, impossible. . Between Auberive «and Ville â€"sur ‘Tourbe the entire advanced system of German entrenchments . and redoubts was swept away,, the French, accordâ€" ing to the Parig account, driving the ‘Teuténs more than a mile to . the rear, where their second line is now being attacked. â€"â€" Huns are Desperate in Counter | Attacks. . |‘ ‘The Germang, fighting desperMtély to the offensive, are:launching violeht counterâ€"attacks. $ n : Nogth : ol"'xrras also the French have registered extended gains, which have _ put them in ‘complete possesâ€" sion of Souchez and the cometery at that place for which there was terriâ€" fic fighting in May, and which have enabled _ them to clear the fortified entrenchinents ~ east‘ of the fertified. maze bf ditches and redoubts ‘known as the "labyrinth." In this fighting theyâ€"took 1,000 prisoners, and retainâ€" ed all the ground won, despite heavy counterâ€"attacks. They are pressing forward toward. Givenchy. 1 ~The British josses are xeported «by. Berlin. .to. have been particularly heavy in the fighting along La Bassee Canal iand in the region of Loos and Hulluch. _ The Germans admit, howâ€" ever, that their .own ‘losses . were ‘‘necessarily large‘" and that a large quantity. of material was lost when they. were. forced to evacuate . their trenches. *‘ THE FAsT FRONT. â€" Germans severely defeated near nâ€"u:i ptu 1,800 : re over 1, g soners ‘un%uhno. and over B,gk * hm Aimiiaty "aalng hnd «t resses Â¥ . , Lutsk practically reca; & Asutrians in énlhh”mfl ON ITALIAN FRONT. Italians . captured a number . of fortified mountains from the Ausâ€" trians. % ¢i Buigaria formally notifies powâ€" ers that she has no aggressive inâ€" tentiqns. â€" The British attack south of the canal. was particulatly successful, acâ€" cording to Field Marshal French‘s reâ€" port= It was at this point that the Britigh penetrated the German posiâ€" ui:}.'&'Z..';'firBin of fire miles for a depth of 4,000 yards." The advance gave the British complete possession of the valuable Lensâ€"La Bassee road. an important . German supply line, and with the capture of Hill No. 70 puts themâ€" in a position when an outâ€" flanking _ manoeuvre _ against the strongly fottified German position at Lens is possible. « Advance on 20â€"mile front. Quer 20,000 unwounded pmisoners According to a report received fron11 the , British â€" Headquarters toâ€"night, the British troops have succeeded in consolidating all their gains, and the French, coâ€"operating with them, have: advanced to the north of Hulluch, the outskirts of which are in British hands, occupying the German position in the quarries. Hulluch is â€" only itwelve miles from Lille, the strategic key to the campaign in northern France. The British also registered considâ€" erable gains north of the canal, ibut were unable to hold the ground and hni to fall back to their original poâ€" sitions. The attack was successful, however, according to Field Marshal French, in that it drew out â€" large bodies of German reserves and . left, the troops south of the canal _comâ€" paratively free to organize the capâ€" tured positions. _A new British attack on Hooge, on cither side of the Menin road, failed to the extent that the British wete forced to withdraw and give up the Bellewaard farm, which they had capâ€" tured. 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