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Show KAISER'S SOLDIERS-ARE SOLDIERS-ARE HURLED BACK STRONG COUNTERATTACKS AT NIGHT BEATEN BACK WITH HEAVY LOSSES. Air Battles Result in Destruction of Seven Teuton Craft, While French Airmen Bombard German Depots De-pots in Chauny Region. London. The repulse of German counterattacks and continued heavy bombardments formed the. chief features fea-tures of the fighting Sunday on the western front front the Somnie region re-gion between the French and British forces and the Germans. The attacks at-tacks by the Germans against the British took place north of Ginchy and against the French south of Bct-ny-en-Santerre. In addition to numerous air battles between French and German aviators, in which seven German machines were forced down, French aircraft have heavily bombarded German depots de-pots and establishments in the regions re-gions of Chauny, south of St. Quen-tin, Quen-tin, Ham and Peronne. London claims for British airmen the destruction de-struction of three German machines and the driving down of others in a damaged condition. Continuing their advance in western west-ern Dobruja, the German and Bulgarian Bulgar-ian forces have captured the old Bulgarian Bul-garian fortress of Silistria, which lies on the eastern bank of the Danube, Dan-ube, about twenty-five miles northeast of Turtukai and sixty miles east of Bucharest, the capital of Roumania. In Ranat, north of Orsova, however, the Roumanians are keeping up their advance against the Austrians, having hav-ing compelled the Austrian right wing, after it had pushed them back two and a half miles, to withdraw to its former position under a strong counterattacks. Attempts by the Russians to break through the Austrian lines southeast of Lemberg, near Halicz, failed, according ac-cording to Vienna, with heavy losses. The Vienna statement mentions the gallantry of the Turkish forces fighting fight-ing with the Austrians in this region. |