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Show BRITISH REPULSE COUNTER-A TTACKS OF TURK TROOPS LONDON, Jan. 28. 8:25 p. m.-An official offi-cial statement issued tonight by the British Brit-ish press bureau reads: During Thursday night the enemy renewed attempts to recapture lost ground, but was repulsed with severe 1 losses. Early Friday we resumed the offensive and. under cover of an intense in-tense bombardment, recaptured the trenches which the Turks had occupied occu-pied by Thursday's counter-attack. On Friday afternoon the enemy launched two violent counter-attacks. Both were completely broken by our artillery and machine gun fire, with the severest losses. In the trenches captured by one of our brigades, which suffered only 200 casualties. we found 400 Turkish corpses. We now are consolidating our gains. |