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Show oo ALLIES HOLDING ALL THEIR LINES PARIS, March 31 On the southern battle front the French have recaptured recap-tured Ayencourt and Monchel and gained considerable ground in the region re-gion of Arvillers, according lo the official of-ficial communication from the war office of-fice tonight. The statement reads: The Germans, exhausted by their sanguinary check of yesterday, made violent local attacks today only at certain cer-tain points on the front North of Moreuil the enemy gained no success except in the region of Han-gard Han-gard on Santerre, where, after stubborn stub-born fighting, he succeeded in gaining a foothold in that village. Between Moreuil and Lassigny our troops recaptured Ayencourt and Monchel Mon-chel last evening, taking about 100 prisoners and fourteen machine guns Today, in the course of spirited engagements, en-gagements, they made a notable advance ad-vance in the region of Onvillers. On the Oise front enemy detachments, detach-ments, consisting of a battalion of storming troops, after crossing the river riv-er near Chauny, attempted to establish a brideghead on the left bank. In a vigorous counter-attack this battalion was complotely annihilated or taken prisoner. The number of unwounded Germans remaining in our hands ex-i ex-i ceeded 100. Our long-range guns cau"ght under their fire and destroyed an enemy 1 train of heavy artillery in the region j of Laon. LONDON, March 31 The Germans' were quiescent north of the Somme on Sunday, their attacks not being renewed re-newed against the British front, Field Marshal Haig reports from headquar-1 ters this evening. There was consid-1 1 erable fighting, however, south of the j Somme. The text of the report reads: North of the Somme the enemy did not renew his attacks today. Some heavy hostile shelling, however, has taken place on different parts of this front. We secured a few prisoners and machine guns in local fighting. South of the Somme a hostile attack developed in considerable force about ' midday south of the main Peronne-Amiens Peronne-Amiens road Fighting is continuing in and between the valleys of the Luce and the Avre, where possession of tactical tac-tical features, woods and villages is at present being contested PARIS. March 31. Official an- j nouncemcnt was made today that the ' presence on the Franco-British front of Bulgarian and Austrian troops has now been established. no |