FIERCEST GUN DUEL OF WAR.

Admiralty, per Wireless Press.

BERLIN, Sunday Afternoon.

The artillery duel in Flanders raged uninterruptedly yesterday from early morning until far into the night. The artillery intensity represents the highest degree of massed effect in the war. At several points of the battlefield attacks by our own and the enemy troops called forth desperate local infantry engagements. From La Bassée Canal as far as the southern bank of the Scarpe the firing activity increased in the evening. At night, east of Monchy the attacks by the English battalions broke down with heavy losses. Also near Ossus, north-west of St. Quentin, English local attacks were without success. Aerial activity was extraordinarily lively, especially on the Flanders front; thirty-five enemy aviators were shot down.

BERLIN, Sunday Evening.

Since midday there has again been the strongest artillery duel in Flanders.