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Show French Make Furious Charges at Forest West of Apremont Under Cover of Heavy Cannon Can-non Fire; Desperate Hand-to-hand Fighting Gives Victory to the Tricolor. NEW BIG GUNS ARE EFFECTIVE General Pau Plants Mod-ern Mod-ern Artillery, Operated by Experts, and Demonstrates Dem-onstrates Superiority of Ordnance of Allies; Sarrebourg and Avre-court Avre-court Bombarded. Spec al Cb e br Arrangement W th London Dal j Te egraph and In ematlona Ivews Serv e ) PARIS Dee 29 Definite and lm portant successes were jecorded by the aflies in their advance from N euport and m their attack on Maelhausen the two extremes of the battlefront is official statements issued today by tlje Trench war office While the Franco Belgian con t ngents pressing the Germans back along the Belgian coast were occupying St Georges m the environs of which there has been most b tter fighting and establish ng themselves firmly in that pos tion two m les east of N euport the French forces commanded by Gene al Pau operat ng n upper Alsace were m vest ng Ste nbach north of the line be t-neen Germany and Thann Pau Gains Success The success of General Pau s opera t ons is cons dered h ghly s gnificant as showing the approach of the long awaited weakening of the German de fens ve on th s line It was at bte nbach only a f ortn ght ago that the Germans by a terr fic cannonade "followed by v gorous as saults of infantry, brought from Tiff holz to the east forced the French to retire and evacuate all the ground they had gained n th a particular reg on The new French now tzers no v have made the r appearance on the French line in this field and it was by the over powering force of these batteries that the Ffench estabbshed the r artillery supremacy wh ch led finally to their en crOaeTiment upon the German works re suiting in the investment of the town The Germans d d not give back upon the r support ng lines without first giv ing a good account of themselves and the fight ng that preceded the draw ng of the French c rcle of steel about fete nbach was most terrific The nan attack was made fron t e nor and west The forces facing to the eastward o cup ed the attention of t e aln German f ont -a e t e flank g o umn "wo ked around t e h to t e west of nort of the town and took pos sess o of t e ruins of the chateau to t e northwest of tl e village wl ch had been wrecked by the gu fl e of t e p ev oub engage nent Strateg ca y the posses s on of U s pyla s of g eat ad antago to he French for It perm ts of the mo nt ng of heavy cannon which ha e been brought up to con ma d t e n aln bat ter es defend ng t e town The attack upon Muelhausen Is related to the general movement aga nst the Rhine pos t ons of I e Germans and Is be g deve oped strongly In the Vosges a d n Alsace with the a d of bombard ments successfully carr ed out by the Frenc a ators Balloons Are Active Today according to reports from that section of the fro t French d riglb e ba oons bombarded Sarrebourg and other po n s a ong t la way 1 ne to Avre ou t T ese operations are carried out fron t e av at on base near Nancy Meanwh le the success of the French aid on the hangars ra way s ation and bar acks at Mets as emboldened the French flyers a d today t e aerial at acks aga nst Metz were repeated w th great dan age to the ene ny s norl s par ticu ar y the hanga s at Frezcar and po nts c ose by a of which are of m 1 tarv value These operations have proceeded de spite the furious storm that has been ag ng over practica y tl e entire length of the battlefield during t e past two days Infantry act oi a d the n ove ment of a 1 1 ery detachments have been rendered extremely d ffioult because of the mud wh ch covers he area of co fl ct in the trenches and between them General -von Kluk s artl lery resumed ts actl ty during Monday according to eports received today and attacked vio ently tl e French posit ons at St Aub n near Rehe e at Le Quesnoy en San ten e and at Pouchoir to the nortl west of Roye The v gorous character of the attack led the French cOrps commander to be eve that von Kluk is about to at tempt another drive t rough the allies Ine Battles Are Hot Sanguinary flghtlns; of a terrific cl ar acter marked the battles of the forest which were fought along the front ranging through tl e Argonne region and as far east as the banks of the Meuse In the fores s of La Urur e Bo ant and COurtes C aussee t e French succeeded in gaining some g ound These posit ons are in the Argonne region German counter attacks d rected against several French pos t ons on the he ghts of the Meuse were repulsed as a so were s nt ar efforts n the forest of Le Bouchot northeast of Troyon T e most pro onged and desperate of these forest batt es was fought In the vicinity of the burned wood to tl e west of Apremont He e t e fight ng resulted n the Frenc retaking the 1 ne of trenc es from wl ich the Germans dis odged them a few dajs ae,o But the recapture of the co eted pos tion cost the French dearly The Flench d rected three successive counter attacks aga nst the German line before the invaders flna ly were dls odged Each advance was made in the face of a deadly fire from machine guns and musketry and each successive charge was a supreme test of the courage of the French troops Heavy cannonades preceded each at tack As the al os ended sharply on the s gnal the infantry rushed across the lead swept fle d to tl e best over at hand Many dead and wounded were left in the r wake but the sur -Ivors pressed on again af er the Intermittent bom bardment unt 1 finally they were able to d g themse ves in at some places witl n thirty yards of the German trenches By firing of grenades and sharp musketry attacks t e Germans were Anal y com pel ed to ret re and the French swarmed over the trenches dl glng out the strag glers with the baj onet. |