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Show GERMANS SMASH ' LINES OE BRITISH CAPTURE BETWEEN 600 AND 800 I YARDS OF TRENCHES ON YPRES SALIENT. English Front, Heretofore Considered Impregnable by Allies, Broken in Drive Activity Renewed on Russian Front, London. Switching their offensive from the Artois and Champagne r Kions in Prance to the Belgian sector around Ypres, held by the British, the Germans have sma.-hed their way by an artillery bombardment and infantry infant-ry attacks into a British front line trench over a distance of between 600 int KIIO yards. Merlin gives the distance as S00 yards and the British, official communication, com-munication, in admitting the gain, (asserts that it was on a front of about 600 yards. Berlin says that a majority ma-jority of the defenders of the trench (were killed and that one officer ana several dozens of soldiers were taken prisoners. In the Artois region between Lens and Berthune the crater of a mine blown up by the Germans was occupied occu-pied by them, while the French guns have been busy shelling German organizations or-ganizations in the neighborhood of the coud to Lille. The French also bom-Iharded bom-Iharded German positions near Vis-Sur-Alsne and to the northeast of Solssons. and in the Argonne exploded explod-ed a mine and occupied the crater. ' In the Champagne district French droops have recaptured a iportion of the advanced trenches occupied by the Germans on February 13, according accord-ing to the announcement given out by the French war office. Berlin asserts French infantry attempts to regain lost positions north of Tahure were repulsed, as likewise was a similar attack in the Vosges. There has been a considerable renewal re-newal of activity on the Russian front around Dvinsk, to the south of the Prlpet river, and along the upper and (Middle Stripa river, but no important changes have occurred. The Italians are still using their guna and infantry in atemipts to retake re-take from the Austro-Hungarians the positions recently carptured on Monte Ronfoon, but all attemipts have been repulsed with heavy losses, according to Vienna. The Russians still are on the offensive of-fensive against the Turks ;in the Caucasus Cau-casus region, but Constantinople reports re-ports their attacks have ibeen halted by counter-attacks. |