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Show FRENCH TROOPS M HECHES ! FROM GERMANS i i Brilliant Bayonet Charge to the North of Mesnil-les- Hurlus; Much Booty j Secured by Victors. ' (pMI Cable by Arrangement With London Tajly TelBprarfi and International News Swvice.) i LONDON, Feb. 2 7. No less than a Third of a mile of trenches were cap-; cap-; in red by the French in a brilliant 1 bayonet charge to the north of Mesnil-pr Mesnil-pr ls-Hurlus, according to the French oi- lie ia 1 communique received from Paris tonight. One hundred prisoners, two macline guns and a revolving cannon were booty taken in the daring attack. . Following tho news in the afternoon communique of additional gaiua in the Argonne and iu the valley of the Meuse, the fresh progress recorded tonight be-, be-, foro Mesial, as well as to the west of, J Perthes and north of Beausejour, all on the Champagne front, make doubly secure se-cure the French position in their drive on tho German lines of communication. Once these lines are successfully brought under the five of the French guns and ' destroyed, the forcible evacuation by rhe German center army of a vastly important section of the front will ensue. en-sue. A German trench before Lombaert-zvdo Lombaert-zvdo was occupied during the day by the Franco-Belgian forces, who annihi-I annihi-I lated tho German occupauts to a man. p The German statement admits re-I re-I newed French aUacks in the Champagne i district, but declares that where the i lighting has reached a decision all the i French attacks have been repulsed. Berlin adds that to the north of Ver-, Ver-, dim tho kaiser's forces have attacked a ' portion of the French position. GERMAN AIRMEN DROP BOMBS ON THE BELGIANS PARIS. Feb. 27, via London. 3:55 p. m. A squadron of German aeroplanes has bombarded the district behind -Nieu-port. An official note given out here today says that only two casualties were reported, a woman and an old man having been either injured or killed. Tb note also states that a French aviator dropped three bombs on the Ger-' Ger-' man barracks at Metz, Lorraine. LOWES TO F T, England, Feb. 27, via London, 1:10 p. m. Two German aviators who for two days have been clinging to their machines in the North sea were landed here today by the Britfeh trawler which .rescued them. The Germans met with their accident while attempting to fly from Ostend to England last unday. Both of them were handed over to the naval authorities. |