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Show ANNIHILATION OF A STORM BATTALION WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IX FRANCE, Sunday, March 31. (By the Associated Press.) A daring attempt by the Germans to cross the Oise to-day to-day and form a bridgehead permitting! of future advances was easily frustrated frus-trated by the French. One of the fa- nious storm battalions succeeded in getting over near Chauny, but never returned. It was almost entirely annihilated. anni-hilated. There remained only about 100 unwounded men whom the French took prisoner. Nearly all the bridges crossing Uie ' Oise have been destroyed and the French hold strong positions on the i southern bank while all fords are cov-; cov-; ered by artillery. |