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Show KAISER'S SOLDIERS ARE HURLED BACK STRONG COUNTERATTACKS AT NIGHT BEATEN BACK Wi'H HEAVY LOSSES. Air Battles Result In Destruction of Seven Teuton Craft, While French Airmen Bombard German Depots De-pots In Chauny Region. London. Tho repulso of German counterattacks and continued heavy bombardments formed tho chief features fea-tures of tho fighting Sunday on the western front from tho Sommo region re-gion betweun the French nnd Urltlsh forces and tho Germans. Tho attacks at-tacks by tho Germans ngajnst tho British took plnco north of Glnchy and against tho French south of IJcr ny-en-Santorre. In addition to numerous nlr battles between French and German aviators, In which seven German machines wero forced down, French aircraft havo heavily bombarded German dt pots nnd establishments In tho regions re-gions of Chauny, south of St. Quen-tin, Quen-tin, Ham nnd Peronne. London claims for British airmen tho destruction de-struction of three German machines and tho driving down of others In a damaged condition. Continuing their ndvanco in western west-ern Dobrujn, tho German and Bulgarian Bulgar-ian forces havo captured tho old Bulgarian Bul-garian fortress of Sllistrla, which lies on tho enstcrn bnnk of tho Danube, Dan-ube, about twenty-flvo miles northeast of Turtukal nnd sixty mlle3 east of Buchnrest, tho capital of Roumanla. In Rnnut, north of Orsova, however, tho Roumanians nro keeping up their advance against tho Austrinns, having hav-ing compelled tho Austrian right wing, after It had pushed them back two and a hnlf miles, to withdraw to Its former position under a strong counterattacks. Attempts by tho Russians to break through tho Austrian linos southeast of Lemborg, near Hnllcz, failed, according ac-cording to Vienna, with heavy losses. Tho Vienna statement mentions tho gallantry of tho Turkish forces fighting fight-ing with tho Austrlans In this region. |