The biggest battle since the West ern Front war began resulted ina rushing defeat to the German forces late-yesterday, according'to a French military dispatch, Tiree waves of German infantry Copenhagen, Sept, 17.
The whole entrance to the Air Ministry in Berlin has been destroyed, presumably. by a bomb, according to the Berlin correspondent of the "Poll taken." AMI windows on the side fackig Leipzigerstrasse are Stated to have been smashed. The explosion is reported to have damaged the windows of a big department store opposite the Ministry and other shops in the vicinity—Reuter. the Nied, Our infantry, admirably Supported by our formidable artillery, Dffered sti resistance to the enemy hose every effort failed, In n0 sector Gid the Germans succeed In affect-{ng our lines. Their very powerful counter-attack was, according to the terms used by the Commander of the felon, stopped dead in its tracks Several sectors in which we attacked Realizing the futllty of resisting, in
persistently, the. enemy "bombarded Gnd destroyed some of their village While withdrawing to. position situated several Kilometres to the rear fof the small defence works occupied by their vanguards when hostilities broke out, The altitude adopted Since last "Friday by the Germans Seems to indicate that the struggle fon the Saar and Palatinate fronts soon become more, intense."—Ha
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