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Show : FIGHT INCREASES IN INTENSITY Germans Find Positions Unsuitable Un-suitable and Retire to Rear Guard Line. FRENCH ATTACK FAILS Berlin Denies French Attack on Monday Has Attained Any Real Value. BERLIN, April 19, via London, 4 p. m. The battle in the Champagne, northwest of Auberive, yesterday continued con-tinued into the night, says today's official of-ficial announcement This morning tho fighting increased in intensity as a result of the introduction of fresh forces. "Near Vllle Aux Bois," the statement state-ment says, "the forest position became be-came unsuitable to us and we established estab-lished ourselves in a rearward line." A local French attack near Braye-en-Lainois succeeded, the statement says, but assaults on the elevated front along the Chemln-Des-Dames and near Craonne failed. Documents captured from the French Indicate far-reaching objects of the French attack launched on Monday, the communication adds. At no point were the hopes of the French realized. Their troops only approximately attained at-tained their tactical aims, to say nothing noth-ing of their strategic objects. |