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Show TEUTONS INFLICT British Lose Three Officers and Over 200 Men in Fight. BERLIN. April 11, via London, 5:44 p. m. Northeast of Arras and on the river Scarpe there was a pause in the fighting activity yesterday, says the official statement issued today by the German army headquarters staff. On both banks of tho river Somme, the German statement adds, strong enemy forces again advanced against our St. Quentin positions. The attacks failed under heavy losses, the British leaving three officers and more than 200 men in our hands. Further south at Croiselles and Bul-lecourt, Bul-lecourt, says the announcement, the British, after violent artillery fire, several times vainly attacked. In a counter thrust "we inflicted considerable consider-able losses on the enemy." |