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Show GERMANS REPORT -REPULSE OF THE ALLIED ARMIES BERLIN, July 8, via London, 4:55 p m German troopB on both sides of the Somme in tho field of the entente offensive along the western front have been repulsed with heavy losses by repeated re-peated attacks by the British and French, the war office announced todav. to-dav. the. statement regarding operations on the western front Bays: On both bides of the Somme our heroism prepared for the enemy a dnv full of delusions. Numerous and continuously repeated attacks were repulsed with sanguinary lo:-es. The enormous number of fallen Englishmen ber'ore the Ovillers-Contaiinaiion-Barentine Le Grand sector and of failen Frenchmen French-men before Biaches-Sovcourt front give on indication of the masses tjf enemy forces employed for the attacks and of the devastating ef fects of our artillery, machine gun and infantry fire. On the right bank of the Meuse the enemy continues con-tinues to sacrifice his men in strong fruitless assaults against our positions posi-tions on Froide Terre hill. He has not been able to win a foot of ground. Several hundred prisoners fell into our hands. Weak advances against the Dana-! Dana-! loup hill battery were easily re- pulsed. Artillery and patrol ac- tivity on the remainder ot the front was "lively in places. An attack made bv about one com pan v of French in the Bois le Pretre failed. |