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Show BERLIN REPORTS SUCCESS AGAINST BRITISH TROOPSl PKRLIN, MiMi 2. by wireless to Say- ! ville. An ngacement v. lih the British near Croii!ies. northeast of Banaume, resulted re-sulted favorably to tho Germans, army headquarters announced in tonight"? sup- j plerm-ntarv report. The text reads: I Omthe western front an engagement ' n'"r i irrd r.f r r "rO' fil I les p or I1 en st of Bapaume v.hich was f.ivoraMe to 1 us. In the rhH:t!p;i'-Tr.e and r: th west bank of the Meuse (Verdun regfon) tiit-re was hvolv arrilli-ry activity. From the f:-i stt-rn . and Macedonian fronts: no ir:;pjr:ant even?ri are re- ! ported. j A French attack on the west bank of1 the Oise near La Fre failed yesterday ! with heavy ios?r-s. the war office an-; noimceB. French trenches in the Cham- j paiiue snuth of Ripont were captured by Hi" Germans. j Tht. statement follows: j Western front : VJ th the majority of the armies the day passed quietly. In the dist rict on both sides of tho Sornme and the Oise there were only minor engagements. The successful manner in which our troops there are accomplishing their task is illustrated by the fact that in the field of the engagement en-gagement of March between Lagni-court Lagni-court and Morehtes about 1000 British dead were cumted. 1 Yesterday the French suffered sanguinary san-guinary losses on the west hank of the Oise near La Fere during the failure fail-ure of an attack. In the Champagne some French ' trenches sout h of Ripont were cap-lured. cap-lured. There, and In enterprises south of Paint Souplet and near Tahure, 3no French were taken prisoner and several sev-eral machine guns and minethrowers capt ured. North of Rheims and in the Argonne hostile reconnolt.ering detachments which had entered our positions were driven away by a counter-attack. |