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Show BRITISH REPULSE STRONG GERMAN COUNTER-ASSAULTS LONDON, Aug. 16. The British, Thursday evening, repulsed a strong German Ger-man counter-attack at Damery, and today, to-day, in co-operation with the French, made substantial progress In the direction direc-tion of Fresnoy-les-Roye and FVansart, according to the official report from Field Marshal Haig's headquarters in France, issued tonight. The text of the statement says: Yesterday evening the enemy launched a strong counter-attack against our new positions at Damery. His troops were everywhere repulsed with great losses, leaving over 250 prisoners and a number of machine guns in our hands. Today our advanced troops in this locality have pushed forward in cooperation co-operation with the French and have made substantial progress in the direction di-rection of Fresnoy-les-Roye and Fransart. We have taken a few prisoners. pris-oners. On the remainder of the British front there is nothing to report except ex-cept artillery activity on both' sides in different sectors. |