8 â€” the war office announcement to-night said : during the course of the day the enemy pressure con tinued north of the ailette river in the region of the lower coucy forest the advanced sections of our troops resisted and hin dered the advance of the enemy who was in greatly super ior numbers inflicting upon him heavy losses on the somme front between montdidier and noyon there was no infantry action but the two artilleries dis played spirited activity in the vosges an enemy attack failed north of tete de faux the day statement said : the night was marked by violent artillery actions especially on the left bank of the oise french patrols were very active bringing in pris oners on the left bank ofthe meuse in the argonne ger man raids were repulsed everywhere else the night passed in quiet german berlin april 8 â€” the official headquarters statement to day says : in continuation of our attack on the oise we drove the enemy out of his strong positions on the heights east of coucy-le-chateau an earlier 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