Show FIERCE FIGHTING I I NIGHT AND DAY DA PARIS SAYS GERMANS HAVE Ass ASSAILED A- A ALED LED THE ALLIES ALL ALOUd ALONG THE LINE Allies Unbroken Drive Back Foe- Foe Capture Guns and Prisoners and anda a Flag German Commanders Comman Commanders ders Order No Respite For d days without cessation the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans have ha hurled their masses against the French and English along the entire front In northern France The Tho f French ench official view Is that these operations the fiercest that yet have huvet t taken ken place are b by high command commana meaning possibly direct Instructions from the emperor himself Their purpose has been to break breakthrough breakthrough through the allies allies' lines but botn both French and British official reports say they have failed From Paris itIs It ItIs itIs Is announced that not on only 1 have ha the Germans not been able to achieve their object but they have lost a flag guns and men In the attempt The as usual are laconic The TIle situation Is satisfactory the report reads and the counterattacks on the British front have been back with heavy losses to the enemy The bayonet has played an Important Important Import Import- ant part In these engagements where tho men race in the trenches on the one side or the other only a few hundred hun dred yards ards apart come to grips with steel after the positions have been shelled and raked with rifle rUle lire fire The French claim appreciable progress progress pro pro- gress on the left wing and a victory over the famous Prussian guard In the center Of Ot the district where the Germans have made gains In the thelast thelast thelast last t two to o or three days das little Is said One of the remarkable things In this great creat battle which has now ow entered upon its sixteenth day Is the spirit maintained by the tho troops British French and Germans have withstoOd d the most terrific shelling the world has hal ever known an almost constant rain of ot bullets from the rules rifles and hand to hand encounters with gun and bayonet bay onet but all reports agree that they are fighting with the same determination determination determination I and tenacity as in the beginning begin begin- ning and that even the c commanders n manders in some cases are having In holding their men ba back k I The German general staff by way of Berlin reports ts that the allies are 1 using their railroads in a general attack at attack tack on the extreme end of ot the flank of ot the German Jerman army The general general gen gen- eral oral staff also reports slight gains gainson on Ion the center of the battle front and an engagement with artillery south of Verdun |