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Show BRITONS REPULSE ! TEUTONIC ATTACK CONCENTRATED FIRE CUTS DOWN GERMANS WHO CHARGE ALLIED AL-LIED TRENCHES. Terrific Artillery Duel Rages In Champagne District Berlin Says Russian Allies In Roumania Were Repulsed. London. The Germans in the Mir-aumont Mir-aumont sector of the Ancre front in France have striven hard to regain the positions taken from them by the British on Saturday, but their attempts at-tempts were fruitless, according to the British war office. Attacking in waves, the Germans came under the concentrated fire of the British guns and were swept back to their trenches, suffering heavy casualties. At no place did the attacking forces reach the British line, and the British Brit-ish suffered no casualties. The British Brit-ish captured 780 officers anL men. Trench-raiding operations and artillery artil-lery duels still continue on various sectors of the front in France and Belgium. In Champagne, near Ri-pont, Ri-pont, according to Berlir , the French have actively shelled the Germans in the positions captured from the French last week, but have been unable un-able to launch infantry attacks, owing ow-ing to the terrific artillery reply of the Germans. Except for isolated attacks, the most violent of which, was delivered by the Russians against Teutonic allied al-lied positions in the Oituz valley in Roumania and which Berlin says was repulsed, little fighting is in progress in the eastern theatre. Petrograd admits the entry of Germans Ger-mans into Russian trenches south of Dvinsk, but says later they were driven driv-en out. In the Carpathians a strong Austro-German work south of Okna has been captured by the Russians. |