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Show BRITISH AGAIN ADVANCE i THE ANCREHEEIOH: Village of Irles, North of Grandcourt, Is Captured and More Than 100 Prisoners Taken. FRENCH EXPLODE MUNITIONS DEPOT Many Aerial Battles Reported Re-ported on Western Front; Four British Machines Fail to Return. LOXDOX, March 10, 10:25 p. m. In an advance today on a front of more than three miles in the Anere region in France, British troops attacked and captured cap-tured the village of Irles, northeast of Grandcourt, and the neighboring defenses, de-fenses, according to the official statement state-ment from British headquarters issued tonight. More than 100 German prisoners prison-ers already have been counted aud fifteen fif-teen machine guns and four trench mortars mor-tars were captured. The statement reads: Today we atatcked and captured the village of Irlos and its neighboring neighbor-ing dofenscs. Tho advance was made to extend over a front of more than three miles. AVe have taken a considerable number of prisoners, of whom more than 100 already have reached collecting stations. Four trench mortars and fifteen machine guns were captured. Our casualties were slight. Yesterday a.n aerial patrol of our machines was engaged heavilv by a strong hostile formation. Four of our airplanes failed to return. One- of the enemy machines is known, to have been brought down. FRENCH EXPLODE MUNITIONS DEPOT OF THE GERMANS PARIS, March 10, 10:10 p. m. The official communication tonight reads: South of the Avre the fire of our batteries exploded an enemy munitions mu-nitions depot near L'Echelfo St. Aurin. In Champagne quite spirited artillery ar-tillery fighting took place in the sectors ot St. Hilaire lo Grand and Maisons do ('hn.inpagno. There was no iDfantry action. An intermittent cannonade occurred elsewhere. A German airphine was brought down Vy our special guns near St. Mihiel. RUSSIAN TROOPS . RAID TRENCHES IN THE CHAMPAGNE BERLIN", March 10, by wireless to Sayvillo. Runsian troops in the Champa Cham-pa gno attacked the G ermau lines near Prosnes yesterday. Today's war office announcement says tho Russians ;,ono-trateil ;,ono-trateil (lerman trenches at some points, but were subsequently driven out. South of Ripont in tho ChampngTiO new fighting developed without important result. re-sult. Tho 1'rench failed in an attack ou the Verdun front. The statement reads: "Western front: South of tho Avro the Krench attacked portions of our trenches near Laucourt and south of rapeaumesnil. They were defeated in hand-to-hand fighting. Twelve prisoners remained in our hands. Kast of Kheinm our raiding detachments de-tachments brought back fourteen men from the hostile lines. In tht western champagne, on bni.ii sides of Prosnes, Russians led bv French ofiicera advanced against our positions. posi-tions. The detachments which entered en-tered in some placeR were driven otf ,by a counter attack. Take Fifty-five Prisoners. South of Ripont, west of Champagne Cham-pagne Fe, which has several times changed hnnds, new engagements developed which led to nj important, impor-tant, change in the situation. Fifty-five Fifty-five prisoners were retained there. On tho west bank of the Mouse (Verdun front) a Krench advance upon Cheppy wood was without result. re-sult. I'Jiist of tho Mense our storming storm-ing detachment s en d1 red aurierea wimd and returned with six oflicers, (Continued co Vutfo Threo.) BRITISH MCE THE E (Continued from Page On.) 200 men and two machine punF. Near Pliery, between the Meuse and the Moselle, an enterprise by a storming detachment also had the success planned for. Tn this instance fifteen prisoners were brought in. Airplanes Shot Down. Out airmen shot down six hoptile airplanes and two captive balloons. Huron von Richthofen was victor for the twenty-fifth time in an air engagement. |