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Show S 1HS0IIE FRENCH FRONT v DONDTADVANGE i Warfare "Confined to Artil-.! Artil-.! lery Engagements for the Li. I j Most Part; Each Side It Claims Success. MUCH IS MADE OF TAKING OF TRENCH Heavy Fog Along the Line Renders Operations Next to Impossible; Waiting 10 Game Played. tu 60 PARIS, Teb. 7, 6:5o p. m. The following communication was is-sued is-sued by-, tha war office this after-, n oon : 0 "On the night of February 6-7 o! the enemy delivered in the region - of Nieuport several minor attacks, T all of which were repulsed. T "There is nothing to report con- 11 ccrning the operations of February 1 7 except the bombardment of the p district to the north of Soissons." n t: Special Cable to The Trib'jne. LONDON, Feb. ".The soore of a claims to success in the righting on the western front was even today. Berlin c reported the capture of a French trench c and two machine guns to the southeast ' of Ypres, and the Paris official state-r state-r ment issued in the afternoon told of the taking hy the British of a fortified j position near Guinehy, which the Ger-i: Ger-i: mans have held ever since they cstab-c cstab-c lished themselves on this line. 1 Tonight's communique from Paris j states that infantry activity by the 1 Germans before Nieuport has beeu re-1 re-1 newed, but without success. Several j attacks directed against ttfe allies' positions po-sitions on this front were repulsed j without difficulty. Bombardment Renewed. German artillery has renewed the , bombardment of the French positions defending Soissons. Probably the most important of toe scattered engagements reported is that in which the British troops again distinguished dis-tinguished themselves in the La Bassce region. Tbe battle took place near Guinehy on tbe highway between Bethuce and La Basset-, a "section where up to a week ago there hail been furious fighting fight-ing wi:n the Germans as the aggressors. The kaiser's fofes had established themselves strougiy in a brick yard two-thirds of a mile east of Guim-hy. Mounds of brick shield"d their machine guns and gave their infantry what appeared ap-peared to, he a perfc-t shelter. But the British sure'"-ded in bombarding the ground witn their heavy held guns, after af-ter which the iufantry charged and drove the Germans back to their second Hue of works. Invaders Scattered. An attempt by the German forces to resume the aggressive north of Beau-e-jour. in the "Champagne region, was easilv thwarted bv toe Fren-'h, whore riSe "fire scattered the advancing invaders. in-vaders. On the remainder of the front art'l-!erv art'l-!erv duels continue with more or lss vigor. Near Arms, along the Aisne and as far east as Bheims the f rench gunners claim the advantage, though do perceptible gains ' have been recorded. re-corded. The Argonne region and the Yosges ( are bianketed bv a heavy fog. whieh has caused a temporary cessation in hostilities. |