statement said on the battle front on both sides of the somme the fighting activity remained limited to artillery duels local attacks by the british in hangard wood and by the french near grivesnes failed with heavy losses on the southern bank of the oise our successes of saturday forced the enemy to evacuate parts of his posi tions between bichancourt and barisis on the night of april 6-7 yesterday we continued our attack and threw the en emy back to the western bank of the ailette after having captured pierremande and folembray enemy columns retreating from bichancourt along the oise were attacked on the flank by our machine gun ere from the northern bank of the river and were shot down with the heaviest losses our troopsadvancing on the eastern border of coucy wood and by way of barisis stormed a hillock northeast of folembray and advanced as far as vereuil the num ber of prisoners has increased to over 2,000 captain von richthofen achieved his seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth aerial victories u s judge baker ill condition is serious judge francis e baker of the united states circuit court of ap peals is seriously ill at french lick springs ind physicians pronounced his illness pneumonia judge baker will be unable to sit with the court to-day and judge ferdinand a geiger of milwaukee has been called to fill the vacancy rosenwald to have high u.s.post report washingt9on april b lt is re ported that julius rosenwald of chi cago is to receive an important