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Show QUIET ON THE . FRENCH FRONT Heavy Battles at an End for Time Being Grenade Fighting in Champagne. PARIS, March 30. The heavy fight-lug fight-lug on the French front since the beginning be-ginning of the German withdrawal has j come to an end for the time being. "From the Somme to the Aisne the night was calm along our outposts," says today's official report. "There were no important events elsewhere j on the front, with the exception of pa- i trol encounters and rather lively pre-nade pre-nade fighting in the sector of Maisons i de Champagne." BERLIN, March 29. (By wireless j to Sayville, March 30.) "On account of rain on the western front and thawing thaw-ing weather on the east there were no important events," says the official statement here tonight, "There were no new developments m Macedonia." r Heavy Losses of Canadians. BERLIN, March 30 (Wireless to Sayville) Canadian troops made four attacks last night on German positions ast of Neuville St. Vaaat, the war of-1 fice announce- They were repulsed with heavy losses. Withdrawal of Germans. A further withdrawal of German troops on the Peronne-Fins road is announced. an-nounced. BERLIN, March 30. The statement reads : "On the Artois front the artillery duel was lively. "East of Neiiville-SL Vaaat a Canadian Cana-dian regiment four times attacked our positions during the night. They were each time repulsed with heavy losses. Some prisoners remained in our hands. "On both sides of the road from Peronne to Fins our protecting troops after an engagement with stronger British forces pave way on the line of Ruyalcourt-Sorel. "Northeast of Solssons French battalions bat-talions vainly tried to gain ground near Neuville and Margival. Our outpost out-post repulsed them, inflicting upon them heavy losses, "On the Alene-Mame canal groupings group-ings between Sapigneul and Laneuvllle Indicated an attack in preparation, which was held down by our batteries. "In the Champagne as well French troops held in readiness for an attack were efficiently shelled. "In Parroy forest on the Lorraine front our raiding detachments broupht hack thirteen prisoners from hostile trenches." nn |