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Show IINVADERS RETREAT AS ALLIESADVANGE GERMANS COMPELLED TO LEAVE TRENCHES AFTER A FIERCE ONSLAUGHT. Allies Are Now Claiming That They Have Won the Battle of the Big Guns Which Has Been in Progress Prog-ress for Month. German forces in great strength renewed re-newed their attacks on the allies' positions posi-tions to the north of Arras on Monday, Mon-day, hut the onslaughts were futile, according ac-cording to the official statement issued is-sued from Bordeaux. Trenches have been abandoned by the Germans at a number of important import-ant strategical points south of Ypres and these have been occupied by the British troops as fast as the invaders fell back. At other points brilliantly executed attacks by the allies have forced the enemy to quit the ditches in disorder. It is now safe to say, even with the main issue as yet unknown, that the French and British have won the battle bat-tle of the big guns which has been in progress with few interruptions for the past month. When it is recalled that the battle of the Aisne and even the beginnings of the battle of Flanders were fought with the advantage in heavy guns resting with the Germans, the fact that the allies now have established without doubt their supremacy in the greatest artillery duel of the ages is remarkable. The fact that the Germans have withdrawn their heavy guns, whose removal is a difficult task, leaving only the field pieces, which are mobile mo-bile and easily handled, to keep up a, Bhowing of artillery fire, indicated to observers here that th Invaders ara planning a retirement to positions further fur-ther in the rear, to which the big guns probably have been removed and replanted, awaiting the with' drawal. As the French and their allies al-lies advance they are fortifying each of the newly acquired positions. Fay, which was taken on November 28, has been strongly intrenched across tha whole eastern front of rne town. On the front, in the region of Sois-sons, Sois-sons, the German guns bombarded the French trenches, but so sharp was the reply of the French gunners that no attempt at a sally was made by the Infantry of the Invaders. Everywhere the artillery fighting has turned to the advantage of the allies al-lies in a greater degree than formerly. |