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Show GERMANS REPORT RETIREMENT TO MAIN POSITIONS BERLIN, March 11, by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. After infantry fighting yesterday with British troops near Irles, on the Ancre river front, says the official statement state-ment today, German rear guard detachments, detach-ments, In accordance with the orders of their commanders, retired to the Teuton main positions. French attacks launched yesterday between be-tween the rivers Avre and Oise were without success. Renewed attacks against the German positions on hill 1S5 and on both sides of Champagne farm, it is added, were sanguinarily repulsed, notwithstanding the use by the French of strong forces and large supplies of ammunition. |