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Show , BRITISH RECAPTURE LOST GROI INfY I ROME, Dec. 31. -In the Monte Tomba region on the northern front the French have captured many positions bc- f' tween Osteria di Monferena and Marankine, the war office $ I announces. They also captured about 1 ,400 men and sixty f jf machine guns and seven cannon. ' 'V ', French Take Offensive. BERLIN-, Dec. 3 1 . French forces on the northern Italy yesterday took the offensive. In the afternoon the French in- ; fan try penetrated portions of the Austro-German positions on ; i Monte Tomba, the German general staff announced today. i f!' , Enemy Preparing Counter Measures, j VIENNA, Dec. 31, via London.- Counter measures j against the French are in course of preparation,Jon..the)tMonte. Thba'area, the war office announces.' ' . British Retake Ground. " LONDON, Dec. 311 The British in successful counterattacks counter-attacks on the Cambrai front have regained the more important import-ant territory on Welshridge taken by the Germans .in yesterday's yester-day's attack, the war office reports. The announcement follows: I ' "On the Cambrai front, as a result of successful counter- lj j attacks in which we captured prisoners and machine guns, we I . regained the more important part of the positions on Welsh- ' ridge into which the enemy penetrated yesterday. The enemy retains a portion of our front trench in the vicinity of La Vac-querie Vac-querie and south of Marcoing. , "On the Ypres front by a minor operation last night our H line w s advanced a short distance on both sides of the Ypres- i Staden railway." Artillery Actors on French Line. PARIS, Dec. 31. "Artillery actions occurred last night 8 northwest of Rheims," the war office reports. "There were . patrol encounters northwest of the Chemin des Dames (Aisne .jVaJajL front) and near Bezoneaux (Verdun front) . ' "Everywhere else the night was calm." 1) BERLIN, Dec. 31 , via London. The British have recov- jl .red part of their lost territory on the Cambrai front near La II Jacquerie, the war office announces. The losses of the Brit- 9 j ish are said to have been heavy. i Review of War Situation. Germany has struck her first strops blow on the "western front slnco the heralding of a great offensive and the j British have held It In check. The at- I tack, -which resulted in heavy fighting, S -was made on a Bhort front on the l southern end of the salient before 1 Cambrai. The fighting continues., The I attackers. gained a foothold In British j trenches but later were ejected In part I by counter-attacks. The German thrust was on a front of more than two J miles between Marcoing and La Vac- I querie and against positions which the 1 British have held since the retirement j after General Byng's successful blow. 1 In the center, the Germans were held for no gain but on either end of the assaulting as-saulting front they entered the British ri , front line. The British counter-attack ' drove the Germans from part of these r positions and resulted also in the capture cap-ture of 3ome prisoners. Berlin claims t-j that front lino positions and a "few J hundred" prisoners were captured, ' Oj Germans Active at Many Points, j The Germans also have been active ij, at other points along the front but 'yj their local attack in the Ypres sector I ? and their raids northeast of Verdun ' a brought no successes. These reports I I ' followed upon heavy German flro in b : I these sectors, Cambrai, Ypres and Vor- J dun, and may be forerunners of deter- ; tM mined attacks. ' UR In the Italian theater there has been M only artillery activity along the north - B '. , era front, German airplanes again have ,'ffl raided Padua; much damage being jW I done to monuments and buildings by jfl; Incendiary bombs. Three persons were K i killed and three wounded H j British Advance In Palestine. H 1 Another advance along the Nables 1 road north of Jerusalem, has been fkW. . made by the British forces in Pales - jj'gF tine. Against stubborn Turkish resist-. anco the British progressed three miles and captured Bierh, ancient Beeroth and three other towns. Progress was also made between the Nublus road and the Mediterranean coast. Blchvlkl Peace Celebrations. In Petrograd Sunday the day was given over to peace celebrations marked mark-ed by parades of Bolshevik! followers. Members of the German and Austrian peace delegations were spectators of the parade. The heads of the German and Austrian delegations to the Brest-Lltovsk Brest-Lltovsk conference, Doctor Kuehlmann and Count Czornin, are returning to their respective capitals. Delayed dispatches dis-patches from Brcst-Lltovsk indicate that while the representatives of Russia Rus-sia and the central powers agrco on moBt of the peace terras there is difficulty diffi-culty in the preliminary sotttlcment of the question concerning German retirement re-tirement from occupied Russian territory terri-tory in order to give the inhabitants I opportunity to decide their future for themselves. One of the forts at Kronstadt. the naval base near Petrograd, has been blown up by an explosion, according to a dispatch received in London. Bessarabia Bes-sarabia and Turkestan aro reported I: have declared their independence, while lighting between the Bolshevikl and their opponents is reported to be going on in Harbin and Irkutsk, Siberia, Si-beria, General Kaledlnes has been reelected re-elected hetman of tho'Don Cossacks by an overwhelming majority. PETROGRAD, Sunday, Dec. 30. An Interview with Admiral Koyserllngk, a member of the German delegation which arrived in Petrograd last week, is published by the Den. In ronly to a statement by his intervlower that the Bolsheviki constituted only one parly in Russia and- were not recognized recog-nized by a majority of the people, the admiral said: "That Is a matter of your Internal politics which in no vyjso cpncorns.,us. "HowevcrrGermahy 'wouldnot'wish'to conclude peace with only one party. That Js why wc insisted that tlio delegates dele-gates from Ukraine be admitted to the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk. "We have not declined to hear representatives rep-resentatives of other nationalities in Russia even of other parties. We understand un-derstand that a durable peace is attainable at-tainable only when factional passions in Russia have been allayed. Therefore, There-fore, however much we desire peace, we await the re-ostnblishraent of order." The admiral denied that the question ques-tion of peace wa3 bound up with the constituent assembly. |