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Show ARTILLERY DUEL ON FRENCH FRONT Paris, Aug. 29, 2 30 p m Tho following fol-lowing statement was Issued by tho war office today "Our artillery continued during the night Its activity against the positions posi-tions of tho cnomy. The cannonading cannonad-ing was especially actlvo in tho sector sec-tor of Ablain, in tho region of Roye, to the north of tho Aisne, in tho vicinity vi-cinity of Craonno and Berry-Au-Bac, as woll as between the Alsno and the Argonne. "There was violent hand-to-hand fighting at Marie-Therese and to the west of tho forest of Malincourt, for possession of excavations mado by mines. We emained m nossesslnn of theso positions. Wo subjected to a heavy bombardment bombard-ment the trenches and groups of German Ger-man pioneers over tho whole lino along the Lorraine frontier at Gre-mecey, Gre-mecey, Bezange, Gondrexon and Era-bermenil. Era-bermenil. There was heavy fighting with bombs and hand grenades in the region of Metzcral. "Our aeroplanes last night bom-barded bom-barded tho railway station and the barracks of the enemy at Grandpre (in the Argonne, as well as tho barracks bar-racks at Monchemln and Lancon, in the Argonne." |