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Show PARIS ANNOUNCES VICTORIES PARIS, Sept. 25, 10:47 p. m. The following official statement was firmed by the war office tonight: On the Belgian mast our batteries have co-operated in the bombardment bombard-ment by the British lleet of the German Ger-man positions at Westende and Middlekerke. The British troops have attacked with success enemy positions to the west of Loos and Jlulhieh. Our troops, operating in conjunction with the British army, delivered to the north of Arras an energetic attack at-tack which permitted them to gain a foothold at several points .in. the enemy's lines. Between the Somme and the Aisne, fighting by means of tor- pedoes and bombs has been going on in the seytor of Canny-sur-Matz, Our artillery exploded a munitions depot in a "fortified house at Beu-vraignes. Beu-vraignes. I n Champagne, after a new and very violent bombardment of the trenches, shelters, hlockhouses and batteries of the enemy, our troops began an assault of the Gorman lines between the Buippes and the Aisne. The first adverse positions have been occupied on almost the entire front attacked. Our progress continues. Artillery actions have occurred in the Woevrc in Lorraine, and in the Vosges, in the environs of Chapel-lotte Chapel-lotte and of Schratzmannele. |