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Show SILL Mil P8ST IS TAKEN N 1HEFREHGH Victors Bring Back 30 Prisoners Pris-oners and Some War Material; Ma-terial; Several Encounters Encoun-ters on Serbian Front. BERLIN REPORTS REPULSE OF RAIDS British Airmen Bring Down Five Hostile Machines and Disable Five Others; Artillery Fighting. FAKI?. Feb. 3- The war office announcement an-nouncement issued tonight, says; One of our detachments this morning1 carried out in She sector northwest or" Couneoen. in the region of the AiHette, an attack on a small German post, which it brought bae& in its en lire! y to our lines, taking thirty prisoners and capturing materia!. mate-ria!. Supplementary report3 show that the enemy attack repulsed by us last night north of Bures M3S carried out by a detachment or" about 120r men. The enemy losses were particularly heavy. Eastern theater. Feb. 2: There was reciprocal artillery activity in the region of Doiran and west of the Yar-dar. Yar-dar. On the Serbian front there were several encounters "with Bulgarian Bul-garian patrols. - Germans Claim Success. BERLIN". Feb. 3. via London. Spirited artillery fish ting on the Italian front and the repulse of French and British raids are reported in today's communication from army headquarters. It follows: Western front: There was a lively artiHery duel on the Flanders front between Houthoist wood and the Lys. Artillery exchanges also occurred in the region of Lens, on both sides of the Scarpe and west of Cambrai. A strong reeonnoiterir.g thrust by the. British near Monchy was repu'.sed. On the Oise-Aisne" canal the French 'eft prisoners m our hands after an unsucrsful operation. Along the near Rheims, on the heights Meuse and at Hartmanns -"weilerkopf the artillery" was active. ? 'ur infantry brought back several rench prisoners from reconnais- sances on the east bank of the Meuse i north of Badonviliers. :in front: There was lively ar-tiLerfiring ar-tiLerfiring on the Asiago plateau. British Win Air Fight. LONDON", Feb. 3. An official statement state-ment cn British aerial operations, tonight reports considerable activity on Saturday an i the bombing of various enemy tar- g - tS. "Five hostile machines were brought cpvrn in air fighting,'' says the statement, "and five others were disabled. One British machine is missing."' Raiders Driven Off. LONDON", Feb. 3. The report from Field- Marshal Kaig's headquarters tonight to-night says: A hostile raiding party was driven off with loss early last night east of Polygon wood; we had no casualties. Hostile artillery firing was active today southeast of Epehy, in the neighborhood of the Arras-Cambral road, south of Armentieres and In the Ypres sector. Night Patrol Encounters. LONDON, Feb. 3. Following Is the report re-port from the war office this morning: In addition to the raid reported in last night's communique, a second raid, attempted by the enemy yesterday yester-day morning in the Poelcapelle sector, sec-tor, was repulsed by machine gun fire. During the night patrol encounters took piace to our advantage In the neighborhood of Mericourt and south of Lens. The hostile artillery has shown some activity in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of La Vacquerie and south of Lens. Air Fighting in Italy. ROME, Feb. 3. Fourteen enemy airplanes air-planes and a captive balloon were brought down yesterday on the Italian front. Heavy artillery fighting is in progress along the lower Piave. "NpODur bombing machines last night dam-'ithe dam-'ithe plant operating the aerial ca-!e ca-!e Nbetween Caldonazzo and Monte Rovere, the statement says. Germans Repulsed. PARIS, Feb. 3. Following is the official of-ficial statement of this afternoon: There was active artillery fighting on the front north of the Aisne and m the region of Four de Paris. German Ger-man raids on' small French posts south of Lombaertzvde, on the right bank of the Meuse, north of Hill 344, !n Lorraine north of Bures and in Alsace in the region of the Rhlne-Khone Rhlne-Khone canal,, were repulsed. British Eomb Airdrome. LONDON, Feb. 3. The admiralty save out the foIUHving today: Naval aircraft bombarded the arssenaere airdrome (Belgium") on Saturday morning. Fire was caused y a direct hit. An enemy machine engaged in photographing reconnaissance reconnais-sance was attacked and destroyed. All our machines returned safely. Allenby Advances. LONDON, Feb. 3. Further slight advances ad-vances are reported by General Allenby in the campaign around Jerusalem, according ac-cording to an official statement tonight. |