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Show ENGLISH REPORT GERMAN DEFE! ; BRITISH CLAIM INVADERS r k TEN THOUSAND MEN N j THREE DAYS' FIGHTING I While Allies Are Claiming Vit'- the Germans Declare That Attaci- i Broke Down Under Heavy ' j Fire of Teutons. r, ' The magnitude of the Britj.,;- . i tory around Neuve Chapelle in i ern France last week coininm-. i grow, as evidenced hy a state- f from the British war office, wliic;, v dares that in three days' figiitjr,?. k German losses could not have -c far short of 10,000 men. Prison the number of 1,720 were takin by- an British. Ca Regarding these operations. fir French official statement says: 7 tie success gained by the British ar at Neuve Chapelle proves to fc. ke been absolutely complete. Thev ( w tured three lines of trenches snr 0,1 fortified work. They enemy ti great losses." The French war office also telis te advances in the Champagne and gonne regions, but Berlin declares all the attacks by the French in (:.. ot pagne broke down under the Cer:: fire with heavy losses to the Free In the eastern zone around p-: fo nysz the battle is developing sio. sc while both Russians and Austr. ' claim ,to have made gains in Gd! Ef and the Carpathian mountains. cc Shipping circles in England are : turbed over the remarkable activ::. the German fast submarine I, cc which for three days has been to: doing steamers at various poists ( the Scilly islands and the E:: channel. |
