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Show I FRENCH INFLICT SEVERE LOSSES I ;( j ' I !' BERLIN, Nov. 29. British artillery yesterday was shell- : ing the town of Cambrai, the objective of the latest British of- fensive on the Somme front in France, the German general H staff announced toda'. H i ROME, Nov. 29. Heavy artillery fighting is in progress .. all along the front but no further infantry actions of import- ance are reported by the war office today. On the lower H .1 Piave river Italian batteries directed a destructive fire at enemy H Hostile Attacks Beaten Off. H LONDON, Noy. 29. "A hostile attack delivered ;-, against Belgian positions in the neighborhood of Aschhobp akk WaS eaten W ater sharp fighting," says today's official com- .flf munication. South of the Scarpe river we captured a few IW prisoners during the night in patrol encounters. On the re- mainder of the front there is nothing of special interest to French Defeat Germans. PARIS, Nov. 29. "Artillery actions occurred north of i the Aisne and in the region of Sapnigneul," says today's of- ? ficial report. "In the Champagne north of Carnillet the en- :i emy last night after a violent bombardment undertook a raid in great strength. Our troops repulsed him, inflicting heavy j losses. In the Argonne west of Aire we raided the German I lines and brought back ten prisoners. .; "Two enemy raids one of the left bank of the Meuse in the region of Bethincourt, the other on the right bank north- west of Vaux les Damloup, were repulsed. There was active .1 ' artillery fighting in upper Alsace." lM ,i Review of War Situation. 'M Efforts of the Russian Bolsheviki JH government to arrange an armistice gKljfe have met with the approval of the fKfif German authorities on the eastern UaI front. The Germans have set next Bji Sunday as the date for a conference to .H negotiate an armistice. The allied dlp- H lonmtic rcpresentives in Petrograd, H j it is reported, -while not recognizing H . the Bolsheviki government, will JH acknowledge receipt of the proposals fl from the Bolsheviki leaders as though ) 1 they came from individuals. Speaking n ' for Great Britain, Lord Robert Cecilfi declares that the allies are considering consider-ing the issuance of a "reasoned statement state-ment for the guidance and warning to the Russians as to the serious situation situa-tion that Is likely to result If a separate sep-arate peace is concluded. On the Bourlon-Fontaine Notre Dame line the British and Germans continue their desperate struggle, the British trying to advance eastward toward to-ward Cambrai and the Germans attempting at-tempting to hold them up with strong counter-attacks. Positions along this line changed hands repeatedly in the urious fighting, and German efforts to gain the dominating elevation of Bourlon wood have failed. Elsewhere on the western front there has been strong artillery activity. The crisis in Italy has passed, according ac-cording to Major General Maurice of : the British war office. The Germans ,in that region have not attempted any new attacks in strength, their latest efforts apparently lacking the vigor of those earlier in the weak. |