Souchez
a small village in Artois, France, about four miles S. W. of Lens, which was the center of a heavy battle between the French and German troops, beginning on May 9, 1915, in which the German lines were temporarily broken.
Most of the fighting ng occurred in and around the village of Souchez, but as a whole became known as the Battle of Artois. The German losses were estimated at 60,000 while those of the French amounted to only about 2,000.
SOUFRIÈRE, a volcano of the island of St. Vincent, West Indies. Its height is 3,700 feet. Violent eruptions have occurred at intervals during the last two centuries, the last on May 7, 1902, simul- 7, 1902, simul taneous with the eruption of Mont Pelee, in Martinique, 1,350 persons being killed, the depth of rocks and dust reaching in some places 60 feet.