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Show FIERCE FIGHTING NIGHT AID DAY PARIS SAYS GERMANS HAVE ASSAILED THE ALLIES ALL ALONG THE LINE. Allies Unbroken, Drive Back Foe Capture Guns and Prisoners and a Flag;' German Commanders Comman-ders Order No Respite. For days without cessation, the Germans Ger-mans have hurled their masses against the French and English along the entire front in northern, France, The French official view is that tliese operations, the fiercest that yet have taken place, are by high commana, meaning possibly direct instructions from the emperor himself. Their purpose has been to break through the allies' lines, but both French and iBritish official reports say they have failed. From Paris it is announced that not only have the Germans not been able to achieve their object; but they have lost a flag, guns and men in the attempt. The Britiish, as usual, are laconic. "The situation is satisfactory," the report reads, "and the counterattacks on the British front have been beaten back with heavy losses to the enemy."' The bayonet has played an important import-ant part in these engagements, where the men in the trenches on the one side or the other, only a few hundred hun-dred yards apart, co"ne to grips with steel after the positions have been shelled and raked with rifle fire. The French claim appreciable progress pro-gress on the left wing and a victory over the famous Prussian guard in the center. Of the Woevre district, where the Germans have made gains In the last two or three days, little is said. One of the remarkable things in this great battle, which has now entered upon its sixteenth day, is the spirit maintained by the troops. British. French and Germans have withstood the most terrific shelling the world has ever known, an almost constant rain of bullets from the rifles, and hand-to. hand encounters with gun and bayonet, bay-onet, but all reports agree that they are fighting with the same determination determin-ation and tenacity as in the beginning begin-ning and that even the commanders in some cases are having diftlculting in holding their men back. The German general staff, by way of Berlin, reports that the allies are using their railroads in a general attack at-tack on the extreme end of the rignt flank of the German army. The general gen-eral staff also reports slight gains on the center of the battle front and an engagement with artillery south of Verdun. |