Show E OT H SIDES GAIN AND LOSE GROUND FURIOUS BATTLE ON FRENCH SOIL OIL CONTINUES WITH BOTH SIDES idoft CLAIMING troops fighting frons from flooded trenches and in almost exhausted condition germana report re R coming th the battle between the allies allea and the germans german on french soil oll Is still undecided reports differ as to the pro gress cress of the great battle some indicate that there is ex krebely heavy fighting while others tell kell of the great masses masse of troops I 1 lying Y in flooded trenches many of them at the tage stage of exhaustion at some acme points at least fierce engagements gage ments have been beau ought fought with tho the tide lido lowing flowing first la one direction and then la in the other the allies hame won wen a position po altton here and the germans have gained one thero there but all repol boits ts official and otherwise agree that there to is much fighting yet to be done before material 1 can aa be cla claimed lined by efthem side the british in the trenches say bay we are slowly lowly beallas beat ins them back the french official statement de elarco elaroo that though furiously counter ut lit ached by superior lories aud and to yield some ground this was regained almost immediately berlin officially that the tha drinco forces have been rd ed to take the defensive in entrenched 1 I and that therefore the result of the german attacks are slow alow unofficial alices all ces from the german capital say eay that members of the general staff manifest mani feat implicit confidence in fit a favorable outcome of the fight I 1 is i in france their armies anniles are bels 1 elfr and through lines line of con muril ration defor ed cd it 44 elated Dh patches from alenna reported or ronny that the inns and oer ger arns in galicia have formed ft a abw defense line and are walting a rue RUB itan clan attack on the strong fortress ot of fifty milt 3 of lani lami erg from petrograd Petro grad it is ansem announced need officially fici fic ally tally that the troops have captured the 1 positions of bent bellara alra and la in gallets tn austrian rear gurd gu rd us 09 been reau sd beyond the san river and the ilus hus lana have taken 1000 3 prisoners rs 3 case of ammunition and some rome guns guna the russian official reports also say eay that there i arbea J been no BO lighting on the germau Cienna ii frontier some observers ei Almate that the total casualties of the germans end and al lies to date are 11 ho cho n of interesting information lne been given out by the 13 ty regarding british and Is ns fortunes in various brit ish gnei chant cruiser Camian Carman la fit fiats sunk a german mci cliant crusor crul ser sup clofed to be either the caps trafalgar Tr atalga or the berlin off the cost of south america but the arn rn sor per koenigsberg comi disabled the british cruiser pert peri sus BUS i I 1 I 1 c P th tin it ter was overhauling overhaul ng her machinery in harbor k in A ling hug t lu Y alva I 1 VA mon and pundlik cund liK dinrie thin th je A times that number and the gwenn cruiser emden has sunk six pil lati steamers ste amera in the 13 rf r n D i 1 iral eal la in the tha fighting around reims matter of greatest latera hits has been the destruction of the fam ouis cathedral cup cue if r tha ni i ted structures in the floiad datin L nek to tho the thirteenth thir tenth bentli I 1 is re ra ported to have burst into alanis against this destruction of the tbt cathedral the bench foni a a 01 z ILI decided to send rt p on to 10 channels ch annela a protest to all aji the pim po s there has blen a review bevic cri cr iii L island of halar by the hultin of 0 the tha turkish fleet including the to fo german cruisers breslau ond dor on after which the warships to 0 o const nople for coal it la is officially announced from to tn klo that japanese Jap annae troops beio eie lauded at latshau bay paoshan Is neutral neu iral territory forty noath of T tau a u A report front from the kustro it ito lau lan frontier from rome says bays tivit tint if oooo aou austrian troops are arc watching the ital tan border the austrian dreadnought one of the ships tl in the navy Is reported to havo have been badly I 1 damaged in an engagement in the adriatic but escaped hei bet pursuers |