Show GERMANS LEAVE MANY DEAD IN THE TRENCHES PARIS Feb 2S a London March 1 1 o a m The fo ow ng state ent was issued by the war Office today today At BeCourt near A brt a German attack was immed ately stopped by our t re The enemy bomba ded So s sons with two hundred shel s In the Champagne distr ct e male marked progress on the who e front f om. Combres to north of Per h s We rep sed a counter attack e tained the works whlc we won es terday and extended our positions by occupying new trenches T e have ga ned ground i i a 1 tl e woods between Perthes and Beause Jour Our ga ns pf yesterday to the northwest and north of Beausejour represented 2000 metres of trenches (about a mile a d a t rd) These ga ns have heen apprec ably extended toda In one trench alone the enen y left more than 00 dead We cap tured a macl ne gun According to the latest news the stru gle continues uraer favorab e cond tions In the Argonne a HI No 63 west of Boureu les we capt red 500 ards of trenches At auq o s a brlliant infantry attack erabled us to reach the edge of the plateau on hich the village is s tuated In the 'Vosges at La Chapelotte three kilometres north of Celles Sur Pie ne a rather sharp attack by the Germans was comp e ely repulsed. |