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Show f HEAVY FIGHTING I SOUTHOFSOMME ; 1 if f" Germans Abandon Villages of rj Berny and Deniecourt ! Are Successful North of jf ; Somme. RUSS THROWN BACK j Between Sereth and Stripa j Repeated Attacks by Rus- I J I sians Repulsed. If Berlin, Sept. 18. Via London, 6 p.m. It Abandonment by the GermanB of tne village of Berny and Deniecourt j together with positions between Bar- rja f leux and Vermandovlllers, south of n . the river Somme, is reported in to- ij day's official statement North of the Bi ' river, the statement says the fighting j j r developed favorably to the Germans. ;j The statement follows: - "Battles continue both in the -west . i'i and in the east, "Western theater: Army group tit j Prince RupprechU The mighty Som- I me battles, carried out on a front of M 145 kilometers (28 miles) -from Tbiep-. val to the south of Vermandovlllers, led to extraordinarily bitter fighting. Those north of the Somme tremlnated favorably to us. Those south of the river resulted In the abandonment of completely razed portions of positions between Barleux and Vermandovlllers. together with the villages of Berny and Deniecourt. "Our brave troops have given splendid splen-did proof of their unshakable resistance resist-ance and their sacrifice. Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 3 especially distinguished dis-tinguished itself south of Boucha-vesnes. Boucha-vesnes. "Our airmen threw themselves againBt strong enemy aerial squadrons and brought down ton machines in successful engagements. "Army group of tho German crown prince: Spirited artillery duels occurred oc-curred at times in the Mcuso (Verdun) (Ver-dun) region. East of Fleury advancing advanc-ing enemy detachments were compelled com-pelled to turn back. "Eastern theater: Army group of trince Leopold: West of Lutsk our effective curtain of fire Impeded Im-peded an attempt to launch a rush attack against the troops of General von Marwitz. North of Czelvov, a feeble fee-ble attack was repulsed easily. Many thousands of Russian dead cover the battlefield of Saturday. "Between tho Sereth and the Stripa repeated Russian attacks against the trPs "nder Geuoral von Eben result-ed result-ed in the Baiiio complete failure and heavy losses for the Russians as on tho preceding day. ''y Group of Archduke Charles 7 oL TUt bey "sating west of l!l0ia JtIp.a TwklBh troops, supported sup-ported by their- allied comrades, su cessfully defended themselves against superior -forces of the enemy. Hostile dotachments. -which penetrated tholr lines, were driven out. "Gorman troops under the command of Genoral von Gerok mado -counter attacks on both sides of (he Naravuv ka (a tributary of tho Gnlla Lipa) The Russians wero unable to stem the advance ad-vance of these troops, A greater portion por-tion of the territory lost Saturday is again in our handB. Not taking into effect the heavy casualties of tho enemy ene-my in killed or wounded, ho lost 3,600 prisoners and sixteen machine guns. |