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Show GERMANS ADMIT CAPTURE OF TWO TOVNS BY BRITISH HKRUN", Mnrch 31, bv wireless to : Sayvillo. Repulse of a British attack near Met.-on-Couture, in northern' France, is announced by the war office today in a statement, which adds that tho Briti.ili have occupied Heudlcourt and St. Kmilie. Heavy fighting is reported re-ported south of Eipont in the Champagne. Cham-pagne. The official statement reads: Western war theater: A night advance ad-vance of English detachments on both sides of the Bois d 'Hav-riucourt 'Hav-riucourt failed after a hand-to-hand fight. Lively artillery efforts accompanied tlio attack by British battalions on both sides of the Peronne-Pins road. North of Metz-en-Couture the enemy was repulsed. Further south he arrived at Heudi-court Heudi-court and St. Emilia. French forces in engagements northeast of SoissonB suffered heavy losses from our fire. In the Champagne there was tenacious lighting for the heights south of liipont. On the ridges of this strip the FTench attack was repulsed in the ecntor, but his storming detachments detach-ments entered our trenches for some hours. The trenches were again cleared of the enemy by the thrusting detachments of the division di-vision that stood there and which was equally tenacious in attack and resistance. Eastern war theater: Front of Prince Leopold: In some sectors, especially on the Shara, Stokhod and Zlota Lipa rivers, the activity of the Russian artillery increased. Raiding detachments that advanced against our positions were repulsed. Our own enterprises south of Vllna and northeast of Tovo-Grodek had a favorable development. Several blockhouses were blown up and seventy-five prisoners and five mine throwers were brought in. Front of Archduke Joseph: In tho Bystritza valley during advances ad-vances into Russian trenches east of Kirlibaba and south of Meste Canesti more than 200 men were taken prisoner and several machine ma-chine fiims were captured. The situation is unchanged ta the front occupied by the army group of Field Marshal Von Macken6en and on the Macedonian front. |