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Show ALLIES STRIKING WITH SUCCESS Raris. Dec. 21, 10:50 P. m The fob lowing official communication wa issued by the war office tonight "The Rritish troops have ..Hacked and this morning regained most of the trenches previously loe Before Linous the enemy delivered four sue-ce-sie attacks for the purpose of recapturing re-capturing the trenches which we had previously won in that region, but all cf them were repulsed. "In an attack to the northwest of 1 uisalenne, south ot Noyon we have sained a foothold in the enemy's trenches of ihe lirst line and have made progress in the wood id Saint Mard "There has been no other report of any note on the operations of the day." Paris. Dec 21. Northern France today Is the storm tenter of the great tattle on the western front 'though the allies continue their activities from Xleuport to the south of Ypres in Belgium, the most furious encounters encoun-ters are oecuring in the district from a point just north of Arras south to the region of Noyon, where the French with their allies, the Rritish and Indian contingents are again at grips with their olo foep. Von Kluk and Yon Ruelow. Appreciable prop:vs- j reported by the French war office, which declares that the most desperate efforts of the Germans to regain their lost positions resulted in failure. French Near Lens. In their advance upon I,ens the i French have arrived within five miles of that town on the west and within two and one half miles of the north-nest north-nest by a series of drives against the i Bavarians under Crown Rrlnce Rup precht. The French occupied the forest for-est near the road between Nouletteb line German trencheb between this I and Souchez and captured all the first highway nnd Notre Dame de Lorelt''. to the southwest of Loos, which is northwest of I. ens The Rritish troops, attacking with great dash and vigor, today retook most of the trenches they lost in t'.n lignting before Rihons, southwest of Rerronne. Four successive attacks 1 of the Germans in their attempts to recapture positions previously tnke-n by the allies In this region were re-pulsed. re-pulsed. Arras Bombarded. Arras is again under bombardment by tho Germans, but the reply of the French batteries has perceptibly weakened the attack. Several of the German guns have been silenced. North or t'anioy, five miles to the fast "i ibert, the French guns over-whelmed over-whelmed the invaders' batteries in several instances, delivering such an accurate cannonade against their gun positions that the batterle? a number of tinu-s were forced out of the ac-1 tion. Near Horn, southeast of Camoy, j two of the enemy's cannon were smashed and a long section of the German trenches was demolished oo |