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Show BRITISH ENTER ; NOREJLLAGES British troops in Franrr- have occu- , I pied three more villages in the Somme region: and in the Champapne the French have recaptured positions taken tak-en by the Germans March 28. A German retirement on both sides of the Peronne-Fins road because of strong British pressure, is announced by Berlin. Two of the villages cap. tured by the British. Fins and Sorei-le-Grand, are on this road, while the other, Ruyalcourt, is three miles north and eight miles west of Ba-paume. Ba-paume. Field .Marshal Haig's men, London says, after hard fighting, also have gained ground west of Sorel-lp-Grand toward Heudeeourt and toward the railroad running south from Mar-coing. Mar-coing. A German attack south of Neuville-Bour-jenvaL between Ruval-court Ruval-court and Fins, is reported by London to have been cheeked With loss Canadian troops have been in action ac-tion east of Xeuville-St. Vaast. Berlin Ber-lin says that four attacks by a Canadian Cana-dian force were repulsed with heavy loss, while London claims that German Ger-man lines were entered and prisoners prison-ers taken after casualties were inflicted in-flicted on the defenders Neither Berlin nor Pari6 reports any infantry between the Somme and Oise Northeast of Soissons, Berlin says French groupings for an attack were dispersed French troops in the see-tor see-tor of Vregny-Margival, northeast of Soissons, Paris reports, made progress. |