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Show CROWN PRINCE'S ATTEMPT FAILS! Counter Attack on Vauclerc Plateau Immediately Checked Heavy Losses Inflicted. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK Many Unwonted Prisoners Taken in District Since First of May. rfi PARIS. May 21, noon. German counter attacks near the Vauclerc plateau pla-teau were repulsed last night with hoavy losses, according to an official statement issued this morning. Since May 1 the French have taken 8,600 prisoners In this district. Tho statement follows: "On the Vauclerc plateau at 8:30 o'clock last night an attack by the Germans, made after a violent bombardment, bom-bardment, was checked immediately. The Germans wero driven back to the trenches whence they came after suffering suf-fering heavy losses. Prisoners taken in this region in tho operations of May 22 belong to six regiments from four different divisions. Since May 1 8,600 unwounded Germans have been captured cap-tured by our troops between Solssons and Auberive. "In the Champagne ground there was rather active artillery fighting on the Moronvilliers range. On the remainder re-mainder of the front patrol encounters and intermittent artillery fighting occurred." oc-curred." Patrol Encounters. LONDON, May 24, 4:15 p. m. "We secured a few prisoners during the night as the result of patrol encounters encoun-ters east of Le Verguier," says today's to-day's war office report on operations along the Franco-Belgian front. "Nothing else Interesting occurred." |