Show I i OST INo m IN mi i o 0 DAYS DAYS' A r Respite Despite esp te Terrible Casual Casual- ties tie Little Change in Posit Positions O 1 Is s Made on the Western Front TRENCH W WARFARE ARF ARE ARE- e and d Entente Are Lo Locked k c i in Deadly I Conflict in in ChamI Cham Champagne I pagie p a and d th the Artois rt rt i iBy is r By United Press LONDON LONDON F b 1 Fierce 12 Fierce Fierce fighting oJ ocr r rl l he 1 hills hins of ei Blithe th eastern Champagne li 1 region i made Slippery y by t this i weeks week's wee s w was yas reported led IP in it dis dIS dIS' patches from bot both Berlin n and nd Paris to tonIght tonight to- to night he G ate aja ae counter attacking u ter Rigorously goro slY to regain the pos positions conquered con con- n- n b by th the French in In last nights night's heavy assault B Berlin Beilin un i-un officially admits admits' th the loss o of ot y yards rd of of trenches northwest north- north west vest est ot of N Massiges s Paris Parl claims th that t more than 30 yards of German n positions I t were t taken taken e ty by ir a a. sudden smash r General e eral evidently ordered ted t the e onslaught in th the h. h Champa while the I- I G s ns were vere attacking ita kl gh t e region with Ll wing w- w Ing ing oft off ff l t. t t ia heavy aVY s 1 t f t e German Gnan G t trenches e c b on n a a ain de front in th the the- for or several sev sev- eral ral hours the F Fr French n h rushed th the Teu Teu- ton positions s with hand nd pe-nades' pe yesterday yes yes yes- morning I Q V. V The The Germans resisted stubbornly I both bolh the Paris and BeU e jr reports p sald- sald d mie le battle raged 11 th the French rench 1 1 storming the the- positions on ti the thet t ge around H l 18 o on or the trie hillsides h i Nightfall r saw aw jie he Frenc French Frencl in ip J possession ol ess of German trenches northwest ot of M Mag- Mag s- s sig Elges S j. Dispatches l es 1 tot from 0 both oth ar s' s sand and Berlin Ber Ber- lin e early tonight indicate ea a slackening n the fighting In the At rt ts' ts and nd south of the tho In the rec recent nt fighting I t n the two fronte fronts front It I Is estimated the Josses Josses on both sides Ides l approximate e 00 Desme Despic these these- heavy casualties s t these ten days days' y fighting g ma mate made e little change bange Jn n the pf position of th the tho opposing armies The rhe Germans Germans' still hold th the village o of Friso Frise and several sevraI h hundred yards arts of French French trenches r n h s bit qt a accordIng accord accord- ord- ord ling Ing ng to the Paris Parig reports have ha lost allic all atle ic e C grou ground d they conquer conquered d in the Inthe the Vimy heights fighting ff General Sir Douglas Halg British commander In in- chief reported lively encounters with th the G Germans ns around pres In official dispatches to the war office tonight Near northeast of Ypres the he en enemy tl this morning entered the s. s but bit t were ere yee driven ven out by y British bomb squads General Haig reported On the road two German Germau Infantry Infantry- att attacks c were re- re re- re A tight fight in underground works aI canal result result- along aIng ng the Ypres Ypres-Comines fed ea d in the Germans b being expelled PARIS Feb 12 Late ILat reports are tot to t the e effect that heavy attacks In the Champagne region Ion have enabled the Germans to penetrate the French ad adI ad ad- I trenches trenches' at a few points AUe All AU Serman e ernan attacks t today day to dislodge the French ench front froni tji the yards of newly conquer conquered d German trenches of f l I have failed Paris reported v Fhe sc scene ne of Jf f most most severe righting fighting ob th the front has been transferred transferred trans trans- from from froni the tto region north of Arras to the tM of ot the Champagne iere t tl-i tl th e French Fren l m made de their greatest gains in the September r offensive The Germans attacked attick oli aJl all along a fifteen- fifteen mile mlle front today but out according to toIght's toight's to- to Ight's official dispatches B ta to tHe French war Var office were were successful only between between between be be- tween Mesnil 1 and the farm Northeast of lf the Mesnil t the a French not ot only h held ld all their newly conquered red territory T b put t made thade slight gains Ins The rhe fFrench Fren French c h war office also reported the tho repulse repulse re- re pulse of ot a German Gernian infantry attack near r. r I. e-I. In ithe the Vos es |