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Show GERMANS CLAIM DECISIVE VICTORY Paris, Jan. 13 Within a few days more than 500 000 additional British troops will arrive in France and t;ike their places on the battle front. At the channel ports extensive preparations prepara-tions are being made to receive them. Paris, Jan 1.., 10 4n p m The fol lowing official communication was issued is-sued by the war office tonight "To tho northeast of Soissons our counter attack has progressed slightly slight-ly between Cuffies and Crony. However, How-ever, we were unable to debouch from Crony. 'Our troops, subject to a violent attack to the east of this place, have yielded slightly near the village of Moncel, but which they are still occupying oc-cupying ' They are holding St. Marcruerite and Mlssy-sur-isne. "There Is nothing further of importance im-portance to report " London, an. 12 The Germans apparently ap-parently are having all the best of the terrific battle now raging to the northeast of Soissons, Reports from Berlin and Paris war offices agree that the French are giving ground before the terrific onslaughts of the kaiser's forces. This stubborn resistance 1s Germany's Ger-many's first answer to the new rifiit.ii pia.ii 10 iiivuae upper Aisace. While tho French armies farther east are presumably preparing to sweep up toward Metz, the German strategy seems to be to hurl such an avalanche of men at the center that the need of reinforcements from both ends of the line will be great enough to halt the Alsatian march Of the fighting to the east of Crony the French official statement tonight says: "Our troops have given way." Commenting on this same field action, ac-tion, the German official report, received re-ceived today from Berlin, says the de-t fat of the French has been so de-' cisive that two main French positions have been taken, together with 1700 prisoners, four cannon and several machine guns The French apparently have fallen back on their positions in the villages of Crouy, St. Marguerite and Cissy-sur-Aisne. They are also in posses-1 ,s1on of the village or Moncel, butlti,! on the edge of this position that, thejt admit having given way, while thoj Germans are holding them so confined I to Crouj that they have been unabu I in spite of desperate efforts, to de V bouch from that village. |