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Show GERMANS REPORT SUCCESSES IN SOME SCATTERED AREAS )-:-:KMN, Sept. ?.. via London. me official of-ficial statement reads: "Army groups of iVown Pnn" l!un-preebt l!un-preebt and General von Uoehn: 1-ielwt-cn Ypros nnd 1 a I'-assee thm- ha', e Ih-.ti successful artii'ery euijaeinenis in front Of our positions. " Fiet the S,-a : 'pe and t e Som:ne tiie British eontmuou tin ir attacks. Soulh-east Soulh-east of Arras they sueeeeded in puttinc: in strong, superior lor.-e lu thn:st lug back t!w infantry line on IkuIi s'd's of t he Arras-Ca in lu ai h igh i cvol. t m the lino of KtainL. tl:e eastern fringe of Dury. east of tgn:eour;. nor;hWes'. of Qucant, and the northern fringe of N'ori;-eil, N'ori;-eil, we held the t licmy thrus:. Kneniy attempts, several tunes repeated, ;o pre.-s farther forw ard o er the height 1 t :"o- e Dury and east of Gagni'.irt, ug;iinst the canal, failed, owing to the intervention interven-tion of our reserves, v. hfh were in readiness. "Enemy attacks rn"d nn hvith sidef of the l?arauii?e, in part with tanks and in part after the strongeyl artillery preparation, prepara-tion, were repulsed. ".North of he Soaime. af'-T vigorous engagements, we r--;H.ned the luiht.-east luiht.-east of Sailly-S.iiliisi'l, Moj solans. Aize-cort-ltHaut and the taslein fringe of I'erorm. "On both sides of the NesV-Ham nil-way nil-way !i ne. rrs-rn p in f 1 1 ; t rv r-'g! me : : t I ", 1 . which especially distiri-ruv-h'-d itse't during recent engagements, ycslenlay also repulsed re-pulsed repeated Freaeh attacks. Aiart from this there wss only nr:,l'.i"-v act::ty between the Somme ami trie nc. "After the strongest .Lrtilb'-r;. prf rara-l!on rara-l!on for several hoars, the French, supported sup-ported hy VoiTO'ans and Americans, attacked at-tacked in the afternoon between tne f :se i and tT Ais:ne. Attacks launch,-' from ! the phiin of the Ailette against Pierre- 1 mantle and F'llembray failed nnd1'- our fire. A t isola ted places our cun: er-at- 1 tnek drove the ene-ny hai-k. a n P-r- ; lion of t h. n wood west and south of rn-.j. y- lp(.;iiater:-i the enemy pressed bar-k our, foremost line somewhat from tiie Ailette. "Rtwppn t iie Ailette and tho A isne i very strong enemy attacks, sev!a! times repeated, 'ailed. The Gafde Guira-ssi. rs and tii1 Eighth Dragoons, up to and in- i eluding yesterday, had repulsed sixteen ! enemy attatiks fnd always succeeded in holding the positions entrusted to them. '"Yesterday we shot down thirteen f-n-emy balloons and fifty-five airplanes, thirty-six on the Arras battlefield- Twenty-six of these were brought down , by the chaser squadron number C. under the leadersliiD of First Lieutenant I .oerzer. who achieved his thii ty-fifth aerial victory." |