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Show uu TRENCH TAKEN BY FRENCH SOLDIERS Berlin Admits the Loss of Ground in Barrenkopf District. RUSSIANS ARE PURSUED Kaiser's Troops Continue to Drive the Russians Across Rivers. Berlin. Aug. 24. An official statement state-ment given out today by the German army staff reads: "In the western theatre: "During yesterday's visit to Zeebrugge Zee-brugge (Belgium) the British fleet fired from forty to seventy shots at our coastal fortifications. We have to deplore on account of th s bombardment bom-bardment the loss of one killed and six wounded. In addition three Belgian Bel-gian inhabitants were wounded bs stray shells. There was no material In r fl.CO "In the Vosges mountains, north of Muenster. fighting was suspended throughout the day, but the French again attacked our positions on Bar-rfnkopf Bar-rfnkopf and to the north of that place in the evening. The attacks were repulsed. A fey m0lintainDucrh8euhrSc were taken prisoner During the battle which we reported yesterday, a section of the trench on Barrenkopf Barren-kopf remained in the hands of the enemy. "At Loo. southwest of Dixmudc, a French biplane was shot down by ono of our battle aviators. "In the eastern theatre. "North of the NIemen river there are no changes in the situation. "Army of Field Marshal von Hin-denburg: Hin-denburg: On the remainder of the front of this army progress was made. During the battles to the east and to the south of Kovno our troops captured cap-tured nine officers and 3600 men and took eight machine guns. "Army of Princo Leopold of Bava-ria: Bava-ria: On the plain situated to the northeast of Klcszezele and in the forest for-est district southeast of this place, the enemy yesterday again was defeated de-feated by our troops, the -pursuit reaching the Bailowleska forts. The enemy lost more than 4300 men in prisoners and nine machine guns. "Army of Field Marshal von Mack-ensen: Mack-ensen: Before the attack of the German Ger-man and Austro-Hungarian troops across the Pulva, the enemy evacuated evacu-ated his positions. Our pursuit continued. con-tinued. "On the southwestern front of Brest-Litovsk a hill at Kopytow was taken by storms. Our troops are advancing through the marshy district dis-trict to the northeast of Vladova, pursuing pur-suing the enemy whom they defeated yesterday." oo |
