After our infantry had delivered some extremely vigorous attacks, which were most efficaciously supported by the firing of almost three hundred thousand shells by our artillery, it was compelled to face, during the night of Wednesday, several violent counter attacks made by important hostile forces. These attacks were repulsed along the entire front, the only point evacuated by us being a small wood which we captured yesterday morning south of Hill No. 119 and which the enemy’s artillery made it impossible for us to hold. In these engagements the Germans used eleven divisions, which all suffered extremely heavy losses. On our side the losses were also serious. The morale of our troops continues to be perfect. The number of prisoners captured by us exceeds six hundred, including more than twenty officers. GERMAN _Berlin, Thursday, June 17._ The British and French continued yesterday their attempts to break through our lines. North of La Bassée Canal the British, overpowered by Westphalians and Saxons, after a hand-to-hand fight, were forced to beat a speedy retreat into their positions. South of Souchez the French succeeded in penetrating into our positions over a width of about 600 metres, and obtained a foothold. Fighting still continues. At all other points they were repulsed with sanguinary losses. FRENCH _Paris, Saturday, June 19, 10 p. m._ In the sector to the north of Arras we have continued our action and on several points gathered the fruits of the favorable engagements of the last few days.... We hold the slopes of Hill 119 where our troops are maintaining themselves, clinging to the ground beyond the last German trenches, notwithstanding counter attacks by the enemy. To the south of these slopes our front has been carried forward to the northeast of the Labyrinth. GERMAN _Berlin, Saturday, 3 p. m._ Several French attacks on the Lorette Hills, on both sides of Neuville and northeast of Arras broke down. We cleared a few trench sections which we had previously lost, of all enemies. Account of battle from the _New York American_, August 7, 1915. THREE AMERICANS IN LEGION CAPTURED Orderly Describes Brilliant Charge Against Germans by Squad from U. S. in French Ranks _By International News Service Paris, August 6._ It now seems certain the three Americans of the famous First Regiment of the Foreign Legion who have been missing since the big fight north of Arras on June 16th are prisoners in Germany. They are Kenneth Weeks, Russell Kelly, and John Smith. The news was brought to Paris by an orderly of the regiment’s colonel, who, while lying in the field of battle with a shattered leg, was picked up by the German Red Cross. His leg was amputated in a field hospital and he was recently repatriated.