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Show I AUSTRALIANS GIVING HARD PRESSED I; New Baffles Developing Right and Left and Ger-mans Ger-mans Bringing Up New Forces and Making jr Desperate Fht Crown Prince Heavy I Loser on the Assne Front ' BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Sept. 27, by The Associated Press. The British are maintaining main-taining their new line strongly. The new battle today was in the neighborhood of Cameron house, in the southeastern extremity ex-tremity of Polyon wood where the Australians are pressing the Germans hard. The situation as a whole is virtually unchanged. un-changed. ', Southwest of Zonnebeke heavy fighting continues in the' 1 direction of the elevations which dominate a considerable ex- HR tent of territory. Kjifl', From a British standpoint, the situation resulting from iS' ensive is exceedingly satisfactory. Yesterday's Victory Complete; emptsV Yesterday's victory of the British in Flanders appears to J.i have about as complete as any they have gained in this year's pii j operations. Today found them not only in entire possession ;, or the ground they had won on a six-mile rront rrom i ower Hamlets to St. Julien, but pressing the Germans hard after re- Pm' pulsing numerous counter attacks. ; ; It had taken hard battling, nevertheless, to maintain the rlPl '' gains of from half a mile to two-thirds of a mile which they 'M accomplished in Wednesday's drive. The Germans returned -J; repeatedly to the attack yesterday afternoon and evening, as- rufii saulting the new -British line with fresh forces. They were I rJtit ' successfully met at all points, the British war office announced itt4i ' o today, and the fighting died down in the evening, leaving ft ' Field Marshal Haig's forces in possession of their gains. The broSS 'German losses throughout had been extremely heavy. ;JB New Fighting Develops. nanifl" ew fi&ktmg developed today south df the eastern ex-tremity ex-tremity of Polygon wood, the Australians there giving the jSB hard pressed Germans no rest. On the British right heavy jjM fighting also continued for elevations northwest o4f Zonnebeke. tSf?"" The "French on the Aisne front had a, German offensive rjgj'1 movement to deal with last night. They met it successfully, jH repulsing with heavy losses the crown prince's troops, who JM'- twice attacked -French positions on the Chemin ds Damps ! ; i ITALIAN SHIPPING LOSSES flfe i ROME, Sept. 27. One steamship of ,1 '. more than 1G00 tons and six sailing jflli ships of less than 1600 tons each were A sunk last -week by mines or subma- 9 't rines, according to the weekly report 9 from the Italian admiralty. M Severe Fight to Regain Ground. j ; LONDON. SepL 27. The fighting yesterday afternoon and evening along 9 j "tho front of the new British attack in S the Ypres sector was exceedingly se- rfll vere, it was announced today. Tho M Germans made four vicious counter- H attacks in great strength. H ; The announcement follows: H "Later announcements show the Hfl ' onemy spared no effort to regain ini- PJ ' portant ground captured by us. The M : ' fighting- on the battle front yesterday H : afternoon and evening was oxcecding- , iy severe. Between seventeen and 9 twenty-four separa'tc counter-attacks 9 were "made in great strength against liljllv our new front from Tower Hamlets to lltfp the St. Julien Grafenstadt road. t "Later in the evening the fighting 1 gradually died down, t leaving our B ; troops in possession o'f the ground ffl : they had captured during the day." idj , ; ROME, Sept. 27. Tho Italian of- 5n '; flcial communication issued today gejjlj says: S "Along the entire front our gallant patrols havo caused damage to the enemy and otherwise harassed him. Prisoners have been taken in the Poslna region and arms and ammunition ammuni-tion on the Carsd front. Our bombing bomb-ing airplanes have been active." Stubborn Fighting for Village. BERLIN, Sept. 27. Especially stub-: stub-: 1 born fighting occurred yesterday along the roads radiating from Zonnebeke westward and in the evening for pos-: pos-: session of Cheluvelt, today's official report says. The village remained in possession of the Germans. Jr. Up to the present, the announcc- ment continues, the British have not -renewed their attacks. It- Is stated p G , that at least 4 wel ve British divisions' were employed without shaking the firmness' of the Gorman defense. British Break Gorman Lfne. The British broke into the German defensive zone to a depth of one kilometer kilo-meter east of St. Julien. to the Ypres-Menin Ypres-Menin road, where bitter fighting with variable results continued throughout the day. In a fresh assault, the statement state-ment says, the British were driven back at many points by the Fourth army, gaining even less tlah in tho attack of last week. South America Should Act. LA PAZ, Bolivia, SepL 27. El DIaro and El Tlmpo. coinmontlng on the measures that are basing taken by Argentina Ar-gentina and Peru to obtain satisfaction satisfac-tion from Germany, says the moment is approaching for the complete solidarity sol-idarity of South America. Discussion of new treaties is In progress In parliament. parlia-ment. LONDON Sept. 27. British seaplanes sea-planes again dropped many tons of, bombs on German military establishments establish-ments in Belgium on Tuesday night, it was announced today. |