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Show BRITISH ADMIT SLIGHT REVERSE London, April 20, 11:52 p. m. The British official statement on the campaign cam-paign in France and Belgium, Issued tonight, reports quite heavy fighting around Ypres. The Germans succeeded succeed-ed in penetrating tho British line, capturing cap-turing two craters and one trench. At other points they were repulsed. The statement reads as follows: "Last night the enemy, after a heavy bombardment, attacked our line about Ypres at four points St. Elol, The Bluff, Wieltje and on the Ypres-Langemarck Ypres-Langemarck road. "His Infantry penetrated our lines, but he has' been ejected everywhere-except everywhere-except at SJt. Eloi, where he captured two craters, and on the Ypres-Lange-marck road, where he retains one trench. "Near Mamtcz a hostile raid failed to reach our trenches. "There lias been some mining activity ac-tivity today about the quarries and south of Givenchy-en-Gohelle, In which we had the advantage." |