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Show POSSESSION OF PEAK'S SUMMIT IS 1EII German and French Re ports Conflict, Teutons Claim to Have Recaptured Recap-tured Mountain Top FRENCH SPEAK OF MAKING PROGRESS Pans Admits Retirement on Northern Slopes, but Describes De-scribes Gains on Southeastern South-eastern Slopes. LONDON" Dec 23 11 15 p m. A dispatch to Renter s Telegram company from SalonlM says General Edouard de Castelnau, chief of staff of the French armies arrived unannounced In Salordkl and conferred at length today with General SarraiL, the French com man der BERLIN Dec 23 via London. The war office announced today' that the summit of Hartmaiyis WeUerkopf, captured ear Iter In the week by the French, had been regained by the Germans. The text of the statement follows Western theater of war During hot fighting yesterday a brave regi ment of the Eighty second landwehr brigade recaptured the summit of Hartmanns Wellerkopf, The enemy suffered extraordinarily severe losses and left twenty three officers and 1410 men In our hand a We are now busy clearing some portions of a trench on the northern slope, which is etlU occupied oc-cupied by the Ftench. The figures given in the French re port of esterday evenuag regarding the fighting around Hartmanns Weilerkopf on the twenty first In stant are exaggerated by at least one half Our total losses. Including all the killed, wounded and miss ng so far as at present ascertained amount to 1100 men. There is nothing to report from the eastern and Balkan theaters. French Lose Summit? PARIS Dec 23 10 30 p m. The fol lowing official statement was Issued by the war office tonight In Ar to Is our artillery has disp ayed acti -ity in the region of Givenchy and in the ne ghborhood of the road to Lille On the north bank of the Aisne we effectively bombarded an automobile convoy between Cond a and NanteulL In the Woevre to the southeast of the forest of Apremont, the mine fighting was to our advantage. In the Vosges at Hartmanns Wei erkopf after counter attacks by the enemy our troops to the left on the slopes to the north of the sum mit returned to the pos tlons which they had previously occupied. On the center and on the right, that Is to say on the ridges to the southeast of the summit, and more to the south as far as In front of Watt wiler we con ered completely the ground conquered on a front of two kilometers (about a mile and a guar ter) A sto m interrupted the oper atlons in the course of the afternoon. The enem has no ently bombarded the northe n slopes and tl e summit of Hartmanns We lerkopf Continue to Progress PARIS Dec 23 35 p m. The follow ing commun cation was given out at tha war off ce th s afternoon The n ght was re atively calm over the whoe front. To the south of A ras In the vie n ty of Beauralns, our art ery kept up its destructive fire against the pos tions of the en em In Champagne there was fight ing at close quarters with hand gren ades to the east of Navarin farm and n the sector of hill No 193 In the osges at Hartmanns TV e e kopf the s tuation is un changed on our left. Our right con tinued to make progress yesterday AUSTRIAN AIRMEN DROP BOMBS ON GREEK VILLAGE PARIS Dec 23 7 04 p m An Aus trian aerop ane flew yesterday to withtn a lltt e more tha three miles of Sa on kl and d opped bombs near a village n the c n a o d ng to reports from Sa on kl fo wa led b e Ha as corres pondent at Athens Ano her unconfirmed report from the same source was to the effect that a Zeppe n had, been seen fly ing o er northe n Greek terr tory The d spa ch wh ch bears today s date s as fo ows I s repo ted f o n Sa on k that an Au an aerop ane was pe ce ed es e da morn njr fie k ome ers f om Sa on k After reconno er ng the ae op ane d opped fl e bombs near the age of Xpap w hou do ng (Continued on Page Threes POSSESSION Or PEAK A COMPLETE Eli (Continued from Page One ) any da age Th or e Hen p anes started In p s h t o enemj aerop ane flew off n a nor ther y d reo ion Accord nc to ano er po aa yet u ro rn ed & p n ee een fl e ove Fo an 1 D n II sua |