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Show FRENCH CAPTURE FARM AND THIRTY ENEMY SOLDIERS PARTS, March 14. Two Violent counter-attacks were made by the Germans yesterday evening on positions captured by the French In the Champagne on Monday. Mon-day. The official announcement given out here today says the attacks were repulsed re-pulsed and that the Germans lost heavily In grenade fire around Malson de Champagne Cham-pagne and hill 1S5. The French captured new trench elements. South of St. Mihiel the French obtained possession of Romainville farm, taking thirty prisoners. They also entered German Ger-man trenches between the Meuse and Apremont, bringing back a number of prisoners. German surprise attacks near Lassigny and north of Solssons were defeated. The statement follows: In the region of Lassigny we car- ried out several surprise attacks on German trenches and put to flight an enemy reconnoiterinp party. Northeast North-east of Soissons a surprise attack agafnst our posts near fcupir was repulsed. re-pulsed. In ' the region of Butte du Mesnil and Mnisons do (.hanip:1 scne the Germans Ger-mans at 6 o'clock yeslerday evening delivered two violent counter-attacks against ti"ie positions conquered hy us. f.in i he lefr of this sector tiie enemy was not able to approach our positions posi-tions at any point. He suffered heavy iosHes. Grenade fighting was carried on all night with violence between hi) I lS-ri and Masons de Champagne, where we enptured new elements of trenches. In the region south of Ht. Mihiel late yesterday a spirited operation carried out by our troops permitted us to capture Romainville farm and take thirty prisoners. Our detach men Is also pentrated at four different points German trendies between the Meuse and Apremont forest, going1 as far as the second trench and returned with prisoners. During the night the artillery ar-tillery ficrhting was rather heavy Ifi this sector. Today we continued to make progress prog-ress by grenade fighting near Malsons de. Champacne, despite a violent bombardment bom-bardment by the enemy, who made use of lachrymosal shells. On the left bank of the Meuse our artillery carried out destructive fires on the enemy organizations. An observatory ob-servatory was destroyed near Mont-fa Mont-fa noon. Belgian statement: "Violent bomb fighting occurred near Steenstraete and'Het Sas. The usual artillery activity ac-tivity was displayed on the whole front. |