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Show ISERIUtAN GROWN 1 PICE MAKES FIERCE ATTACK UCCeeda in Taking' French Trenches Over a Front of One and One-fourth 1. Miles. 1 LONDON, SVjrt- ,9, 10 r- m Tho r Vrrnunt crowa prim e is making another ittrmiuod attoropt to bn-ak through . French lines in tho .Vrsonne. and, jeordina to tho Berlin official state-ent. state-ent. has succeeded in taking trenches er a front of two kiloroetora (ono and ic quarter roilesl and to a depth of om 800 to o00 meters, capturing 2000 boners, forty-eight machine guns and xtv four mine throwers. The French, both in their midnight port and again this afternoon, admit ,aI the Germans had gained a partial iccess. but declare that in most in am-cs they were thrown back with :iw losses. This is the second effort of tho Ger- F-wi emperor's heir to win a victory in Lis region within the last three months. id although on each occasion he gaiuod . small amount of ground, he is appar-itly appar-itly as far from his objective this me as on the previous occasion. Fight- was in progress all yesterday and roughout the night and was still go g on when the last report was is-d. is-d. This doubtless is the German reply to mm e artillery bombardment which the al-? al-? j ;s kept up for fifteen days, but which eem to be dving down without Biv infantry attacks following it. as had en anticipated. Instead, except for vv gun action south of Arras, bomb "! rowing secras to have taken it? place. |