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Show llSli Teutonic Forces Make Fruitless Attempt to Regain Positions on the Ancre Front and Are Swept Back to Their Trenches Under Fire of the British Guns. RUSSIANS RALLY AFTER REVERSE Germans Succeed in Entering En-tering Trenches of the Muscovites South of Dvinsk by Stealing Forward in White Clothes, but Are Finally Fi-nally Driven Out. The Germans in the Mireaumont sector of the Ancre front in France have striven hard to regain the positions r:en from them by the British on Saturday, but their attempts were fruit-loss, fruit-loss, according to the British war office. of-fice. Attacking in waves, the Germans came under the concentrated fire of the British guns and "were swept back to their trenches, suffering heavy casualties. casual-ties. At no place did the attacking forces reach the British line, and the British suffered uo casualties. The British Brit-ish captured 7S0 officers and men. Trench raiding operations and artillery artil-lery duels still continue on various see-tors see-tors of the front in France and Belgium. Bel-gium. In Champagne, near Ripont, according ac-cording to Berlin, the French have actively ac-tively shelled the Germans in the posi-. posi-. tions captured from the French last week, but have been unable to 1 ) uch infantry attacks owing to the terrific rtillery reply of the Germans. Except for isolated attacks, the most violent of which was delivered by the Russians against Teutonic allied positions posi-tions in the Oituz valley in Rumania and which Berlin says was repulsed, little fighting is in progress in the eastern east-ern theater. 1'etrograd admits the entry of Germans Ger-mans iiito Russian trenches south of Dvinsk, but says later they were driven out. In the Carpathians a strong Aus-tro-Germau work south of Okna has been captured .by the Russians. GERMANS DRIVEN .FROM TRENCHES i BY THE RUSSIANS I'KTItOGRAn, Feb. 1 S. German sol diers, clad in white clothes to render them . less visible on the snow -covered ft eld p. took the offensive against the Russians nrr Kochava, southwest of Dvinsk on the northern end of the eastern front, and penetrated a Russian front line trench. The Russians immediately counter-attacked, driving -the Germans from the captured posit ions, according to today's to-day's official nlatoment. An Austro- Hungarian position southwest south-west of Nokna was taken by the Russians in a surprise attack. Not one soldier was lost in this action. Tho Aiistrlans tried 10 regain the position but failed. GERMANS REPORT REPULSE OF THE BRITISH AT ANCRE HRRLTX, Feb. IS. via Sayville wireless. Today's official statement said: Western front: Army group of . t.'rown Prince Rupprecht After live ly artillery preparations, strong En Irtish Ir-tish reconnoliering detachments tried to enter our trenches north of Ar-mentieres Ar-mentieres southwest of l,i!lc. north of La Byssee canal and near Ransart. They were repulsed partlv h, hand-to-hand fighting, in which prisoners A remained in our hands, and nartlv by our fire. After the failure of his" at- tack February is south of Mlroau- mont. the enemy, in the course of the night, increased his artillcrv fire and when morning came, attacked on both sides of tho Ancre river. In the en- casements, which were continued dnrlng tho day and were subject to yrpfiuent changes, we captured Vien and five machine suns, nnd then V'andoned to the enemy our mopt ad-Jmced ad-Jmced orator positions On the river Otse near iTeslrn-violent iTeslrn-violent lng!ish attacks v.cie repulsed md all our positions were maintained, (.hi the river Ooise Tienr Iircslin-r Iircslin-r court (sou t':i west of Xoyon 1, an ad- 1 (Continued on Pase Two.) ' WAVES OF GERMANS MCE I Mi (Continued from Page One.) vance brought In for us fourteen prisoners. pris-oners. Army group of Crown Prince Frederick Fred-erick William In. the Champagne our new position south of Ripont and on the west bank of the Meuse and our trenches in the Bois le Pre t re were shelled by artillery and mine throwers. throw-ers. Attacks were not carried out because of our annihilating- fire. The night of February 7 one of our airships extensively bombed the town and port of Boulogne. Eastern wa r thea ter : Front of Prince Leopold On Lavkessa, southwest south-west of Dvinsk, reonnoHerin? par-tips par-tips entered the Russian lines and brought back about fifty prisoners. Front of A rhduke .loseph In the mount a ins north of the Oituz valley the Russians ceased their attack after aft-er their first storming waves had streamed back under our defensive fire. Army prroup of Field Marshal von Mackensen There is nothing new to report. Macedonian front North of Lake Doiran an English company, advancing advanc-ing against our outpost, was dispersed dis-persed by artillery fire. |