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Show Artillery on All Fronts Continually Con-tinually Harassing German Positions and Patrols. BAD VEATHER PREVAILS American Gunners and Riflemen Rifle-men Hold Enemy in Check Along Their Sector. BERLIN, Feb. 9, via London. Some American prisoners have been captured cap-tured north of Xivry, northeast of Verdun, Ver-dun, says the official sttaement issued is-sued today by the German general staff. LONDON, Fob. 9. The official statement state-ment from British headquarters in France and Belgium today reads: "Thc enemy patrols were somewhat more activo han usual during tho night in the sector north of Lens. There is nothing further to report." French Take Prisoners. PARIS, Feb. 9. In a raid on a German Ger-man position near Dioncourt in Lorraine Lor-raine last night a French detachment look thirty prisoners and one machine gunritva-s'iofficially announced today. On the fighting front there has been no marked change in tho situation. American gunners and riflemen have checked momentarily, at least, the activities ac-tivities of German snipers along the American sector in France. The artillery ar-tillery also continues its harassing bombardment of the German positions and has made ltie work of German patrols pa-trols so dangerous that American patrols pa-trols have been ablo to work unchallenged unchal-lenged in No Man's Land. The British and French soldiers have repulsed German raiding parties at several points, while artillery bom-i bardments are in progress on the Ar- j ras-Cambrai front, northeast of Ver-1 dun and in tho Vosges. Bad weather prevails on most of the Italian front and there has been no activity there except that by the artillery. The situation in Austria which resulted re-sulted in the resignation of the von Seydler cabinet Is not yet clear. A dispatch recoived in Switzerland says Emperor Charles refused to accept tho resignation. |