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Show urilBC.ll I General Foch's Troops Win Brilliant Victory in One of the Fiercest Battles on the Western Front; Heavy Actions in Champagne District and Around Verdun. BRITISH CAPTURE 1 GERMAN REDOUBT "Quadrilateral," One of the Strongest Positions Between the Bouleaux Wood and Ginchy, Taken Ta-ken by Storm; Allies Secure Many Teuton Prisoners. (Special Cable lr -Arrangement ipith London Dally Telegraph and International News Service.) LONDON, Sept. 18. Deniecourt has fallen to the French. The last remaining link in the German Ger-man chain of fortified villages that formed the southern line of the Somine salient was won by General Foch 's troops south of the river after one of tho fiercest battles fought on the western rront late this afternoon. The German war office, foreseeing the inevitable fall of the place, admitted early today that the village had been abandoned, together with Berny, taken by the French two days ago. At the time the Berlin statement state-ment was issued the village was completely com-pletely surrounded. Its last defenders were captured a few hours later when the French took the village and pushed a kilometer (five-eighths of a mile) beyond be-yond it. Chain of Successes. The fall of Deniecourt was the out-.standing out-.standing event of the day, but the allies scored equally as important successes at other parts of the Somnie battle line, both north and south of the river. The French took a knot of German trenches 200 meters south of Comblea, carrying the fight to the very outskirts of that important German base. Simultaneously Simul-taneously the British, driving against Comblea from the northwest, captured the "quadrilateral," one of the strongest strong-est German redoubts on that part of the line between tho Bouleaux wood and Ginchy, and then smashed forward on a front of a milo, penetrating- the German positions to a depth of 1000 yards. Many Prisoners Taken. The French took during the last twenty-four hours 1650 men. Including twenty-five twenty-five officers; the British captured in the same period ten officers and 600 men. In the Verdun front the almost forgotten for-gotten Dead Man's hill loomed up suddenly sud-denly in the official French communique of tonight. General Nlvelle's troops, In ! the first attack reported on the left bank : of the Meuse in many weeks, captured a German trench on the southern slopes of that height, taking: some prisoners. The German war office was forced to make grave, admissions in its report today. to-day. It conceded trie abandonment of "complete portions of positions between Barleux and Vermandovillera, together with the villages of Berny and Deniecourt." Denie-court." It denied, however, indirectly that ihe allies had made any gains north of the river, saying that the fighting there ended favorably to the Teutons. Veiled Admission. A veiled admission of heaw losses Is seen by military experts here "in the following fol-lowing sentence contained In today s official of-ficial Berlin report: "Our hrave troops have given proof of their unshakeable resistance and their spirit of self-sacrifice." The French afternoon communique says enormous losses were inflicted in the fighting for Berny upon big German reserve re-serve units. Two battalions wero almost annihilated, the Paris war office asserts Last Pillar Broken. In capturing Denleeourt and pushing their lines beyond it southwestward toward to-ward Abljiinecourt. the French broke the last remaining pillar in the German defense de-fense north of the line between Barleux and Chaulnes. and cleared the way for a concentrated attack on the latter town to turn the German lines eastward against the river. They took a trench west of Tlorgny and drove the Germans from three small woods southeast of Deniecourt also occupying oc-cupying a number of Teuton trenches southwest of that village. Violent German counter-attacks were (Continued on Page Two.) SOU SALIENT FALLS TO FRENCH (pontinued from Page One.) launched throughout last night and today. to-day. Paris reports they were all fruitless. fruit-less. The British, on their part, beat off furious counter-blows north of Flera village, vil-lage, adding to their own gains in that j region toward Bayonne from the south. Early in the day .Sir Douglas Haig's troops took a further part of the German Ger-man trench system south of Thiepval. The German war office gave high praise in it statement to the bravery of the Westphaltan infantry regiment No. 13, which "especially distinguished itself south of Bouchaves." Tlie Germans claim to have brought down ten allied aeroplanes, while the British report having shot down several German machines, and admit the loss of four British. The British official report follows: South of the Ancre, a strongly fortified for-tified German work situated between Bouleaux wood and Ginchy, known as "the quadrilateral," which hit li - erto resisted our efforts, has fallen I completely Into our hands. As a re- j suit, our line has been advanced about a thousand yards along a one-mile one-mile front. Numerous prisoners were taken in 1 the course of this highly successful j operation. ' Enemy counter-attacks north of j Flers were driven back and we made ! progress. Hostile troops, massing for a counter-attack at Les Bouefs and j Morval, were dispersed. The total number of prisoners I taken in the last twenty-four hours is ten officers and 500 men. French Report. Following is the night Paris statement: North of the Somme a brisk attack gave us the mastery of a group of trenches 200 meters south of Com-bles; Com-bles; we took fifty prisoners. Violent artillery fighting continues in the sectors of the Bethune roads. South of the Somme fierce fighting fight-ing continued at Deniecourt. Our infantry, after capturing the village, . has driven back the enemy's advanced ad-vanced positions to a distance of about a kilometer, south in the direction of Abla-incourt. Simultaneous operations enabled us to occupy a trench west of Horgny and oust the enemy from three small woods southeast of Deniecourt and also to occupy several trenches to the southwest. The total number of un wounded prisoners taken Sunday and Monday Mon-day in this sector exceeds 1C0O, of whom twenty-five are officers. In the Champagne there was considerable con-siderable artillery activity on both sides in the region of the Soualn-Somme Soualn-Somme road. On tlie left bank of the Meuse we captured a German trench on the southern slopes of Dead Man bill, some prisoners remaining in our hands. The day was calm on the rest of the front. |