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Show SMALL BATTLES Hostile French Outposts Surprised Sur-prised and Several Prisoners Taken by Germans. BRITISH SHELL COAST Successful Engagements With Enemy Divisions Occur in Mountains Southwest of Mitrovitsa 1200 Serbs Taken Berlin, Dec. 3, by wireless to faay-vilie. faay-vilie. Various minor operations along the western front are recorded In today's to-day's official statement by army headquarters. head-quarters. No infantry operations of moment are chronicled. Near Lombaertzyfle, northeast of Nieuport in Belgium, hostile French outposts were surprised by a German detachment and several prisoners were taken. . West of Roye, a French biplane was forced to land under the fire of German Ger-man artillery and its occupants, two officers, were made prisoner. Westendc, on the Belgian coast, was shelled by two British monitors, but without effect, according to the official statement. German troops of General A'on Lin-slngen's Lin-slngen's on tho Russlon front attacked a detachment near Podezarevleze, on the Stvr river iu Volhynia. north of the river from Kovel to Sarney. Sixty-j six men were taken prisoner by the Germans $1200 Serbians Captured. Berlin, Dec. 3, via London, 3:12 p. m. The text of today's German official of-ficial statement regarding operations in the Balkans follows: "Balkan theatre: In the mountains southwest of Mitrovitsa, successful engagements took place yesterdny with detached enemy divisions, durlug which more than 1200 Serbians were taken prisoner." Berlin, Dec. 3, by wireless to,Say-vllle'. to,Say-vllle'. Scattered v Serbian detachments in the region" southwest of Mitrovitsa, near the Montenegrin border, were defeated de-feated by Teutonic forces in engagement engage-ment yesterday and more than 1200 Serbians were taken prisoner, it was announced today by German army headquarters. |