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Show HEAVY FIGHTING ON ALLIED LINE Big Guns Continuously Roaring Roar-ing on the Aisne and in Flanders. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK Violent Attack by Crown Prince' Forces Beaten Back by French. PARIS, Oct. 29. Another effort .was made by the Germans last night to capture Chaump wood.. The war office reports that they gained a footing In the advanced French positions but that the greater part of the ground was regained in a counter-attack. Heavy artillery fighting continues on the Aisne front and in Flanders, The announcement follows: "In Belgium rather violent artillery actions occurred north of Draiebank. "South of St, Quentln we made an attack which enabled us to bring back a machine gun and prisoners. "On the Aisne front spirited artillery artil-lery fighting occurred near Hurtebise and in the sector north of Vaudesson. "Our detachments penetrated Ger-i Ger-i an trenches In the Argonne and on the left bank of the Meuse bringing back ten prisoners. On the right bank o( tho Mouse the German artillery violently vio-lently bombarded our positions on the front between Chaujne" wood and Be-zonvaux. Be-zonvaux. An attack followed. The enemy beaten back by our fire, was not able to approach our lines except at a single point north of Caurieres wood, where he gained a footing for a distance of about 500 meters in our advanced positions. Our troops counter-attacked immediately and regained the greater part of the occupied ground." I GERMAN INTRIGUE FAILS LONDON, Oct 29. La Metropole, Belgian newspaper published here, savs a German attempt to separate the allies has been defeated by Baron de Broquevllle, Belgian foreign minister. minis-ter. According to this newspaper, Germany Ger-many recently made a peace offer to Belgium. |