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Show HEAVY LOSSES OF FRENCH ARMY Attacks in Champagne Region and on Verdun Front Are Futile. VIGOROUS FIGHTING British Lose One Officer and 54 Men Northeast of Bapaume. BERLIN, March 29. (Wireless to Snyville.) French efforts to recapture the positions recently taken from them In the L hampagne region wprn futile, army headquarters announced today. The French sustained heavy losses In : I these attacks. I A French attack on the Herman lines In the region of hill No. 304, northwest of Verdun, carried out on a wide front, I also faSled. : The British lost fifty-five men in prisoners in an engagement near ( Crolsilles, f Following is the official account of operations on the Franco-Belgian j front: "There was vigorous artillery flght-i flght-i ine yesterday, continuing Into the j night, between Fens and Arras. Be-e Be-e dayb estei das in an i ngage-j ngage-j men near & d Ecoust fit Melnnein, northeast of Bapaume. the I British lost one officer and fifty-four men, who were taken prisoner, in addition ad-dition to numerous men who were killed by an advance of our protecting I. troop-. "In the Champagne several attacks undertaken by the French in an effort ef-fort to regain the trenches captured ' from them failed with heavy losses. ! "On the left bank of the Meuse (Ver dun front) yesterday our defensive fire I frustrated French advances against ' . .; 04, which were in pi i para- ration. This morning the attack launched on a wide front failed under our fire and at one place through a counter attack. "East of Verdun our airmen shot j down two captive balloons. In air en-j en-j gagements and by defensive fire four enemy airplanes were brought down." Hi i |