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Show BERLIN CLAIMS SUCCESS IN ALL ENGAGEMENTS j BERLIN". Sept. 22. via London. (Brit-I (Brit-I ish admiralty per Wireless Press). Re-I Re-I gardinfr operations on the western front ' the Berlin official statement says: Front of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. After a violent outburst of fire, followed by local attacks by j the enemy near St. Julien. which were unsuccessful, the artillery battle on I the Flanders front weake'ned yester-; yester-; day morninp. At midday It again in-' in-' creased to srreat violence on the coast and from the Yser to the Lys. At 6 o'clock in the evening the strongest ' drumfire commenced suddenly and lasted an hour, from Langremarck to Hoilebeke. After this the British infantry in-fantry again advanced to the attack on manv points of the front. Xot- withstanding the devastating effect I of our artillery defense, the enemy assault as-sault was carried out and was repulsed In hand-to-hand fighting, especially between the Boes:nghe-.t!toden and the Ypres-Roulers road. Farther south to the canal near Hoilebeke the weight of our destructive destruc-tive fire broke down the enemy attacking at-tacking waves. Only at isolated points ; were the Knglish storming troops able to leave their crater positions, and 1 tiu-y were repulsed. This morning. aiti-r a further increase in firing, lo- infantry enticements developed. Ail terminated successfully for us. With the other armies of the west-i west-i orn front there was only slight fight-. fight-. 1 ins ai-rivity. the fighting in Flanders. In the last two days thirty-nine enemy airplanes air-planes and two captive balloons were shot down. Three of our aviators fell. |