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Show FRENCH REPORT ONLY ARTILLERY ACTION AT FRONT PARIS, March 23. The war office announcement an-nouncement tonight says: The artillery activity was intermittent intermit-tent at various points south of the Avre, but no infantry action took place. On May 20 an enemy machine was brought down in an aerial engagement. engage-ment. It is confirmed that eight German machines were destroyed by our pilots, one on the. 15th, another on the 16th, and six on the 19th, in addition to two machines brought down by our special guns on the 20th and 21st. On Maq 20 and the night following our bombing escadrilles dropped 17,000 kilos of projectiles in the region re-gion of St. Quentin. Noyon and Terg-nier; Terg-nier; on the stations at Peronne, Rosieres and Nesle and on the aviation avia-tion ground at Villeselve. Two big fires, caused by explosions, broke out at St. Quentin and Nesle. On May 21 and the night of May 21-22 our airplanes dropped 30.000 kilos in the same region, causing new fires. Cantonments and stations in the regions of Ville-au-Bois, Hir-soii, Hir-soii, Le Cateau and Aulnoye received in the same period 11,000 kilos of explosives. ex-plosives. Italian machines took part in these expeditions. Eastern theater. May 22: The enemy during the night attempted two raids on our positions. One near Kirklina was repulsed before it reached our lines; the other, between the lakes, succeeded in taking foot In one of our sma II posts, but was driven out immediately. There were artillery duels west of Doiran and in the Monastir sector. |