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Show FIERCE ARTILLERY DUEL IN FRANCE HOSTILE ARMIES GRIPPED IN A DEAD-LOCK WHICH IS FEARFUL FEAR-FUL IN EFFECTIVENESS. While Two Mighty Armies Are Hammering Ham-mering Away, the British Fleet is Bombarding the German Gun Positions. London. Fighting in the Artois and the Champagne sectors has again developed de-veloped into a fierce artillery duel, with the hostile armies gripped in a deadlock which is awe-inspiring for the effectiveness with which the opposing oppos-ing armies are holding their respective positions. Official reports received from Paris are barren- of any claim of advances made, while Berlin mentions only one success, the recapture of a section of trench which the French took on Tues day to the northwest of Givenchy. British attempts to retrieve their losses of the day before by attacks against the Germans north of Loos were repulsed with "very considerable losses in killed and wounded," according accord-ing to the German general staff. The center of artillery fighting in Artois has moved from the section be tween Souchez and Grenay to a point farther south and now the big guns are struggling for the mastery along the front immediately north of La Scarpe and to the east of Arras. The Scarpe river traverses the opposing lines at a point just north of Arras and flows east through Vitry and past Douai. While the two mighty armies are at tempting to reach a solution of the issue in trench-to-trench warfare, the .British fleet is hammering daily at the German right, bombarding with shells of every caliber the German gun po sitions at Westende and Middlekerke. Reduction of these works or their enforced en-forced withdrawal is considered here 'to be a necestary prelude to an ad vance movement on this flank wher the allies' offensive is begun. |
