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Show SAYS LEFT WING HAS WITHSTOOD SEVERAL A TTACKS PARI 3, Pept. 2?. 3:01 p. m. "On our left wins along: the river po-nni." the French official Ftatempnt Issued thi afternoon aft-ernoon eays, "the fJermnns a t ro-r.pted numerous vat tacks, which the h I Mr -p ro p'jlped." The text of the statement a? follows: fol-lows: First On our left wins, 'o Cip north of tne Sommc and h.-iwcM- tl Pom me and tbe Oi-. ihe prifn1 . ho'i) by day and by nicht. flrhcr-ii sr.-. -eral a ttack" which hn , "vr , ber-n repulsed. To !hf north of ibe Afne there ha bren no clinns". Second On t hf renter in m-paRne m-paRne and to the pat of the Arj:onn tlie enemy has letrhter) ,? a-tnl-t ies hea vy en nnonad inz. I t ,' er.n the Aratonne and T'w: Meu.tp ih-re has ben h?'U proerr-.n on the p;rt of our troops, who ai" confronts! iv .rons?ly or'nnlzed pr.sjtioi! on tho lieic'nts of In t lie U ni re di tri'- and on om- nnht wtnj. in Lorraine and the Vostr" t hi ere bai been no nu table- modification in situation. Kp.neraly vppakms. our line runs from tj-p f;nst to t:,r- we it Ihroijh the reeion of poii t - a - Mou.son, A prernont and the Mr-uj--. throuch the ronton of Sain' Mildel, alonn Hie hfeU to the north of Hpad.t and through a portion of the heights of the Me use. To the smuheasi uf Verdun, between Verdun and Rheims. ihe general front is hull, -a ted by h line passing through the region of Varennes. to the north of So -j;. in a nd th Romain roadway which runs into Rheims, the outposts out-posts of Rheims. the road from Rheims lo Berry -an - Bac. and the heights known as the "Chemin des Pa mes." On the right bank of the Aisne this line then draw s near to the Aisne and continues into the region of Soissons. Between Solssons and the forest of l'Aigle It runs over the first plateau of the right bank of the Ai.-ne- Between the Oise and tie Sommo this line runs along the front from Rihecourt iwliidi belongs to us tn I , assign y, occupied by the enemy to Royc i which belongs to nsi and ; to Chaulnes (in the possession of the ; enemy,. To the north of the ic:nme the line continues along the plateau between j Albert and Comble?. I We again took many prisoners dur-' dur-' ing the day of yesterday. They he-I he-I long principally to the seventh active I corps and the seventh reserve mips I of the German army, and also to the I tenth. t'Ae'ft. lificersth and ninettentli German army corps. |