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Show LITTLE ADVANTAGE GAINED IN DRIVE, BERLIN DECLARES BFR1JX, July 3, via London, 5:05 p. m. The war office report of today says that the continuation of the French and British drive on both shies of the Somme has not pained any advantage for the allies north of the river, but south of the Somme the Germans withdrew a division to the second lines. The communication says: The continuation of the British and French attacks on both sides of the Somme did not win any advantage, ad-vantage, generally speaking, north of the river. The enemy suffered extraordinarily ex-traordinarily heavy losses in this region. re-gion. South of the river we withdrew into the second-line positions during the night the division which we recalled yesterday from the first line to the intermediate positions. There was some degree of activity on the fronts which have not been attacked. at-tacked. West of the Meuse attempts of the French to retake captured trench sec-t sec-t ions on hill 304 led to minor infantry in-fantry engagements. Fast of the Meuse the enemy again exhausted himself in fruitless attacks on the village of Thiaumont and on Froide Terre ridge. In one of these attacks the enemy temporarily penetrated our foremost trench, about 600 meters sop tit west of the village, but was driven out again immediately. The hill battery of Damloup, southeast south-east of Vaux fort, has been in our possession since Sunday night. We look 100 prisoners and several machine ma-chine guns. French detachments advancing against German positions in the wood of De Pet re, northwest of Pont-a-Mousson, were repulsed easily. Numerous aerial engagements were fought yesterday and six enemy aviators avia-tors were brought down - Four fell within our lines. Lieutenant Mulzer put out of action his seventh opponent oppo-nent and Lieutenant Parsehau his sixth. An enemy biplane was brought . down over Dauaf and another on Saturday, east of Jervyse, by our antiaircraft anti-aircraft guns. Two French captive balloons were brought to earth in the neighborhood of Verdun by our aviators. |