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Show 1 LONDON, Nov. 22. The six-mile wedge driven into ' the German defenses in the British offensive on the Arras-St. Quentin front is penetrating still deeper and spreading out, Reuter's correspondent at British headquarters in France telegraphs today. On some stretches of the front the British troops have broken into the enemy's final defense line. All ; the German counter-attacks have been repulsed. ' I Battle Still Contimies. BERLIN, Nov. 22, via London. The battle southwest of Cambrai is continuing, army headquarters announced to-; to-; day. The enemj', the statement declares, did not succeed in breaking through, though he gained a little ground beyond I the German front line. The statement says that several British J. tanks have been shot to pieces. . fmp The German statement says that on the western bank V of the Scheldt the Germans drove back the British to Anneux iafj and Fontaine and that on the east bank of the river the British jjp were forced back into their former positions south of Rumilly. pri The text of the German statement reads: "The battle southwest of Cambrai continues. By the aix massed use of tanks and infantry and by launching his cavalry, the enemy sought to effect a break through, which was denied uVd , him on the first day's attack. He did not succeed' in his ob-irtj ob-irtj ' jective. Although he was able to gain a little ground beyond So r our front lines, he was not able to attain greater successes. "The enemy troops, which were effectively caught b' the vol fire of our artillery and machine guns and greatly thinned, en- & countered the counter-thrust of our brave infantry." JH LONDON, Nov. 22. The village of Fontaine Notre .Hjt Dame has been captured by the British in their new offensive, 'i c war 'lce announces.' njB Fontaine Nqtre Dame is 2 3-4 miles southwest of Cam- brai on the main road between Bapaume and Cambrai. leijfmL 1 he announcement follows : mn6lfri "Moving forward north of Cantaing yesterday evening iavelj'M' our troops attacked and captured the village of Fontaine Notre ,rH Dame. They took a number of prisoners." wMr ' Gernvn Counter Attack. icajsM PARIS, Nov. 22. The Germans last night made a 1 counter attack on the Aisne front in an endeavor to recapture the ground won by. the French in yesterday's offensive. The ol9 war ce announces that the enemy was, repulsed with seri- .TtruM OUS losses. Iete1 Further progress by General Byng " --B victorious army towards Cambrai is nnV5jB reported. British troops pushed fur- VaB ,cr nlno lnc Bapaume-Cambrai road odB and captured the town of Vontaine tOiPJjM Notre Dame, two and three-quarter iaguB miles from Cambrai. Today's war office statemenL from London confines itself to reporting ggjjX this single operation. What is going on within the remainder of the wide ill. hK field of the British offensive so spec- 'um lacularly begun on Tuesday remains iWM veiled by official reticence ne 'lie?!1 Cavalry In Action. n'6 News dispatches from London, how- over, indicate that everything has not f been told of the extent of the British victory. Emphasis is laid on the fact that the cavalry is reported in action in large numbers while some reports declare that British forces have pushed northward from Graincourt behind the broken wing of the Ilinden-burg Ilinden-burg line, potentially imperilling the retreat of the Germans who were entrenched en-trenched between the Bapaume-Cam-bral road nnd the Scarpc river, oppo' site Arras Berlin Makec Odd Denial Berlin's account of the battle announces an-nounces Its continuance coupled with a denial that the front was broken, al though admitting that the British had gained ground "beyond tho 'German front lines." It claims further tho pushing back of Byng's troops west of Cambrai where they had advanced north of Fontaine and Anneux and a similar German success southwest of Cambrai where the British were forced to give ground south of Rumilly. Rumilly it-se!fr it-se!fr however, is wilhin three and one-half one-half miles of Cambrai and the German mention of a "starting position" here evidently means' the line from which the British yesterday began a resumption resump-tion of their attack after their original advance, which reached nearly five miles at this point. |