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Show 1 ll FresicSi Bmkrd Enemy ; H Positions British En- : H gage Fliers. ; AUSTRIANS STRIKE I French Gain Fooling on , H German Crown Prince H PARIS, Thursday, March 14. The French war office tonight issued a j jf statement which said: H "The enemy artillery activity on the I Champagne, in the Vosges, and in the -' H section Hartmanns-Weiler-Kopf was IH (less violent. jH "During the day three German air- ! planes were destroyed by our pilots. I Our aviators, in several sorties, re- 1 cently carried out effectual bombard- IH ments, dropping 1800 kilograms of IH projectiles on railway stations, mill-tary mill-tary works and airdromes In the enemy zone." f - RAIDING PARTIES TAKE PRISON-ERS. PRISON-ERS. LONDON, March 15. "Our raiding parties entered the enemy's lines last ' night west of Villers-Gulslain and 1 brought back a few prisoners," says , today's official communication. "Hos- L IH tile raids were repulsed in the neigh- j borhoods of Pnsschendaele and Pool- ( ( capelle." 'H SEVERE AERIAL FIGHTING." j LONDON, Thursday, March 14. r There was severe aerial fighting on the western front Wednesday between j ' large groups of British and German J JH machines and British airmen account- t , ' cd for twenty-four of the enemy. The . official statement on aviation adds that f it flvo British machines are missing and i ' hat 700 bombs were dropped on en- ' i emy billets, ammunition dumps and j 1 railway sidings at Courtrai and Engl- fl ken. ROME, March 15. Operations on i the frcnt between Stelvio and the ' Piave are reported in tho war office to- day which told of the repulse of hostile reconnoitering parties east of Monte I Crlstallo, south of the Stelvio, in the 'M . Tonalo region and cast of Lake Garda. ' 1 RAILWAY WORKERS STRIKE. COPENHAGEN, March 15. The JM i men in the workshops of the Austrian ! railways have struck and refused to 1 nhnv tho nrflftl'c of tha military to re- turn to work, the Berlin Lokal Anzeig- cr states. The strike, it is added, is ' spreading to other factories. FRENCH GAIN FOOTING. I BERLIN, March 15. A strong j-'H French detachment gained a footing i yesterday west of the Nauroy road on d the German crown prince's front r (Champagne district), says today's ; f, i army headquarters announcement. |