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Show 5 l r y defeats Enemy Garrison Continues Con-tinues to Fire Until the Horsemen, in Open Order and With Lances Lowered, Are Within 700 Yards; Then the Teutons Take to Flight. spirited battle in the champagne 1 Kaiser's Troops Gain a Footing in Some Elements Ele-ments of the French First Line, but the Attack At-tack Fails ; Thaw on the Russian Front Stops Military Operations. Opera-tions. jO'DO'S, March 28, 9:15 p. m. Brit-ish Brit-ish cavalry today captured the villages v of Villers-Faucon and Paulcourt. north jfrfij Ro!seI. and also to the north of this g; 'eVv-jn took terrain from the Germans at twooints on the Boignes-Lagnicourt road and south and "west of Croiselles, according to the official communication issued tonight. The communication says: Following up their success of yesterday yes-terday morning, our cavalry captured cap-tured Villers-Faucon and Saulcourt and several prisoners and four machine ma-chine guns this afternoon. Last night a hostile attack at Equancourt was driven off with considerable con-siderable German losses. Farther north our troops established themselves at . two points on the i Boignes-Lagnicourt road after a short . fight and today gained ground south and west of Croisilles, meeting with strong resistance. We carried out successful raids east of Aix-Noulette and north of Xeuviile St. Vaast. CORRESPONDENT SUMMARIZES THE BRITISH ADVANCE LONDON, March 28, 8:12 p. m. Summarizing Sum-marizing the progress of the British forces in the past twenty-four hours the Reuter correspondent at British headquarters head-quarters in France mentions the capture of the villages of Guyencourt and Villers-Faucon, Villers-Faucon, and says: Taking the line between Longaves-nes Longaves-nes and Equam-ourt as representing our progress on Tuesday morning, this means That we pushed forward some 3000 yards. This does not mean, how-i: how-i: ever, an advance of the whole British f ,'ine. In the present phase there Is ' yo. continuous front line, but rather a Succession of posts and patrols all in touch with each other, but varying their positions from time to time as opportunity offers for pushing on. Kquancourt was captured by a single sin-gle squadron of cavalry. Its garrison garri-son continued to fire until the front rank of our horsemen. In wide open order, with lances lowered, were within Too yards of Its outskirts. The Germans then bolted, flinging away their arms and all encuniberances. A similar stampede occurred at 1 .ongavesnes. But In Villers-Faucon the enemy made a stand. Lierlemont-was Lierlemont-was entered without opposition. FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN ATTACKS IN THE CHAMPAGNE PARIS., Marrh 2S. 10.30 p. m. Heavy artillery fighting between the French and Germans took place tday on the Es-s'gny Es-s'gny -Benay fronl . The Germans delivered deliv-ered a strong attack In the Ph.ampa.gne region, gaining a foothold in the French first line, hut, according to the official communication tonight, all their attempts aeainst Maisons do Champagne were defeated de-feated with sanguinary losses. The text reads: Between the Somme and the Disc, great activity was displayed by both a r tiller les. especially on the Esslgny-Benay Esslgny-Benay front. Our fire dispersed enemy en-emy pioneers south of St. Quentin ; there was no infantry action. Son til of the Oise and north of Soissons skirmishes between patrols and lively rifle firing occurred. Tn Champagne, after a violent bombardment west of Maissons de Champagne, the Germans delivered a strong attack this morning, gaining a footing in some of the elements of our first line. All of their attempts against Maissons de Champagne broke doMi under our fire, which Inflicted .-Tieuinary losses. X Two surprise, attacks east of the road between St. Hiliare and St. (Continued on Page Pour.) Bill CIH DEFEATS mm (Continued from Page One.) Souplet and north of Tahure completely com-pletely failed. On the left bank of t lie Mcuse (Verdun ) we effectively shelled the German organizations in the sector of Hill 304 and l,e Mort Homme, ICastern theater: After violent artillery ar-tillery preparation, the enemy attacked at-tacked the trenches which we had captured March :'t around Tsrvena Stena, west of Monastir. The attack at-tack was stopped short by our barrage bar-rage fire. The prison ers numbered twenty-six, bringing the total taken by us in the latest operations around Monnstir up to 2104, .of whom tw euty-nine are officers. We captured cap-tured also six bomb throwers and sixteen machine guns. Belgian eomm unica Hon : Tn the sectors of Dixnuidc and Steenstraete both artilleries were active, although the results were not important. |