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Show FRENCH DEFEAT GERMAN1RQ0PS Paris. Feb. 17. The following of j ficlai communication was issued by the war office tonight: "From the sea to the Oise our ar tillery has carried on an efficacious shelling, which has dispersed a num her of gatherings, blown up some tais-sons tais-sons and destroyed some trains. "To the north of Arras we have taken two lines of trenches and beaten beat-en back violent counter-attacks We have made some prisoners and In-' In-' flicted heavy losses a number of German Ger-man officers have been killed. "In the neighborhood of Rheims, near Louvre, the advances made on February If., several hundred meters, have been maintained and consoll- i dated "In the Champagne district we have followed up our gains to the northwest north-west of Perthes and have captured positions po-sitions of the enemy on a front of I S00 meters. All the German counterattacks counter-attacks to the north of Mesnll-les-Hur-lus and Beausejour have been re-1 pulsed. We captured a large bomb thrower and several small ones and ! made 200 prisoners. This engagement , continues. "In the Argonne we hase made prog-ress prog-ress In the forest of La Grurie and j maintained our gain notwithstanding two violent counter-attacks and sev-1 eral very hot actions at close quarters which resulted in heavv losses to the enemy "A strong attack b) the Germans was completely repulsed at Four de j Paris. "Between the Argonne anri the ; I MeUse we hae made progress at divers di-vers points In Alsace we have taken control of the ridges which dominate the SudM farm and we have retained all the ground conquered. "Our aviators have bombarded the railway station of Freiburg im j PJreisgau " |