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Show - GERMANS' GUNS AT , LEA'S SILENCED BY BRITISH BARRAGE C A X ADIAX HEADQUARTERS IX i- KRAXCE, Sept. Id, by the Canadian Press. Limited. There have been no Infantry In-fantry engagements on the Canadian front during the past few davs. The enemy has apparently given up patrolling patrol-ling in the chaos of wrecked houses, of svhich Xo Man's land consists, on the neater part of the front. Retaliation -for the recent projection of gaa Into Lens v.-;.s not STlft, but when it came it wag vigorous and direct. r On Friday afternoon the German trench mortars opened fire on our lines to the yesi of Lens, where the enemy perhaps I ni loved on r h.im Mi..i rt ors wer e lorn I cd . Al'U'i" the niDiiai-N iunl ln-e tx miriK for smiii' tiiiu1, riuvny iin.s, lh;ht find heavy, were? ulso mi lift I Khm- on I lily Srotloil u f the from. In response, our artillery put ii tmrniKii on the (iermnn line nml sl-len sl-len -eii their trench niortniH, but the violent vio-lent artillery diiel continued tor sevonil hours. The. only i e;tsunalile c phi n;i t Ion of t ho entvny'H m. irked net ivl t y is that bin losses from our p.ia tit tuck have been so serious (hut even at Brent eost In pro-.lertileti pro-.lertileti he vns determined to search Unit part of the line from which he believed the attueks came, in the hope of locating and destroying the projectors. 'Die situation of the Germans in the center of Lens, with the vigilant enemy on hifih ground to the north and southwest, south-west, is not a hnppy one. Tho bombardment bombard-ment was renewed during the nii;ht, when gas shells were used by the Germans, Ger-mans, but tliis morning rain Is falling heavily and' oil Is rjtiiot. |