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Show BRETISH " So m Germans Ejected' From Trench Section Captured Cap-tured Saturday East of Bullecourt on the Ar-ras-Cambrai Front; Teutons Penetrate the French Lines. PRISONERS AND GUNS ARE TAKEN Padua Spared Another A e r ial Bombardment by Daring of the Ital- ian Aviators, Who Went Aloft to Form a Cordon Around the City. LONDON, .Jan. 6. British troops last night attacked ajid recaptured from the Germans a trench section which, the Teutons had occupied earlier in the day to the east of Bullecourt, on the Arras-Cambrai front, the war office announced today. to-day. The text of the statement reads: Successfully attacked and recaptured recap-tured the sap which the enemy had occupied during the morning east of Bullecourt. Except for some hostile patrol activity in the Lens sector, nothing noth-ing of special interest occurred during the night. Fiy the Associated Press. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN" KRANCK, Jan. 6. Freezing ten.perature lontinues to hoM the British front in an ii y grip. Many of the roads are impassible im-passible U motor rar owing to snow drifts and the fighting necessarily is desultory des-ultory owing to t lie woalher conditions. The Germans, however, are exceedingly active, carrying out raids on various. parts of the line. V r Their exploit of yesterday morning east vf Hiille'.'ourt. in which they captured an advanced British post, resulted in a heavy k loss of life to Che attacking troops. Ixite yesterday afternoon tho British organized ;: I'ounier-thrust. and recaptured the position. po-sition. Thero has been eonsiderable activity in the air and also continual wrangling between be-tween the big guns as a reminder that i he war has not been finished. Aside frmn this, however, eomparauvc quiet prevails. The German? are industriously conducting con-ducting changes in their back areas, whK-h lends support to the general itn-iressio:i itn-iressio:i that they intend to attempt offensive of-fensive operations unless peace is concluded con-cluded shortly. ITALIAN AIRMEN SAVE PADUA FROM BOMBS OF ENEMY By the Associated Pres. I r A LI AX U E AD Q V A R T E R S rX NORTHERN ITALY, SMu-day, Jan. o. Padua was spared another air raid fcist night largely through the daring of Italian Ital-ian a '.'ial or.-1, who went into the air an !i. ."i- tWoro mooruiso and formed an aerial cordon aiound the city, meeting -nimy n:achines as t!iey advanced. The enemy aviaiors, seeing the heavy concen- ra: ion, diverted their course, going to ,Mer.re. Ba-ssano and Castelfranco. where they caused some casualties and considerable consider-able loss at the last place. British aviators avia-tors are doing especially good work. Their b'est exploit was the destruction of an cnMi.-v balloon a' S-usegana and the bringing bring-ing duwn of an enemy air phi no by gun The arti'Iery action Jong the mountain a ud Piave fron is js in tTini I teui and no Continued on Pago Two.) BRITISH COUNTER , iTfflllll (Contirjjed from Page One.) longer shows the intensity of a big offensive. offen-sive. Along the upper Piave enemy batteries bat-teries have been virtually silent for a week, indicating either a shortage of ammunition am-munition or a possible movement of forces westward to other fronts. Weather conditions continue abnormally abnormal-ly good, with clear days and nights. |