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Show BERLIN COVERS UP REVERSES WITH CLEVER PHRASES BK.RLIN. via London, Sept. 27. The text of the official communication follows: Especially stubborn fighting took place at t he roads radiating from Zonnebeke westward yesterday and last evening for the possession of Gheluvelt. The village remained in our possession. Farther south to the Comines-Ypres canal repeated assaults as-saults by the English broke down, with heavy losses. At least twelve English divisions have been employed at the front, They have not shaken tile firmness of our defense. On other sectors of the Flanders front and in Artols the artillery activity activ-ity increased only temporarily. The bombardment of Ostend Tuesday Tues-day night, apart from the damage ' done to buildings, resulted in the death of fourteen Belgians. Twenty-five Twenty-five were seriously wounded. Army of the German crown prince: Northeast of Solssons, in the center of the sectors of the Ohemln-des-Dames and on the eastern bank of the Meuse the artillery activity has been lively. Only local forefield engagements en-gagements developed. Seventeen enemy en-emy airplanes were brought down yesterday. TSastern theater: Near Dunaberg (Dvlnak), on lake Narocst, to the southeast of Lutsk, on parts of the Carpathian front, on the Rumanian plain and along the lower Danube the artillery activity has been revived. Macedonian front: There is nothing important to report. Western front : Army of Crown Prince Rupprecht The battle In Flanders yesterday raged from early morning until far into the night. The battle brought the enemy even less gain of territory than the battle of September 20. Drumfire of unprecedented intensitv preceded the attacks. Behind a wail of dust and smoke the English infantry infan-try broke forward between Mange-laares Mange-laares and Hollebeke, often accompanied accom-panied by tanks. The enemy, assaulting assault-ing repeatedly on both sides of Laneemarck, was repulsed every time by our fire and in hand-to-hand lighting. light-ing. From the region to the east of St. Jullen to the Menln-Ypres road the English succeeded in breaking into our defensive zone to a depth of one kilometer. The enemy was driven back at many points In fresh assaults. |