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Show I UII I III! Ill inn g-f-. . nT. IMPFRIAI (iliARIl Urn LluAL IMImJ IN BIO ATTACK Germans Select Famous Corps to Make Great Charge on French in Champagne. BOMBARD FOR 24 HOURS Surprising Promptness of the Counter-Attack Catches Enemy Many Must Surrender. Chalons Sur Marne, France, Jan. 11, via Paris, 5-30 p. m. The fact that regiments of the Imperial Guard were among the sixty thousand men that attacked the French lines in Champagne Cham-pagne on Sunday indicates how carefully care-fully the Germans selected their troops for this great assault. A considerable con-siderable number of prisoners taken by the French belonged to the fam-our fam-our guards. The attacked followed one of the heaviest bombardments the Germans have yet infjicted upon the French positions. It lasted twenty-four hours. The promptness of the French reply with concentrated fire from their three-inch guns stopped the first waves of the attack on the parapets of the German trenches. Only at the fourth attempt did the Germans after heavy losses get up to tho French trenches. The surprising promptness of the French counter attack caught tbe Germans before they could organize organ-ize the positions they had won. Many were obliged to surrender and only a few got back to their own lines. ntv . |