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Show FRENCH MORS ON II FRONTS CLAIM TO HAVE WON MOMENTOUS MOMEN-TOUS SUCCESS IN PICARDY AND AT VERDUN. Russians Drive Austro-Germans Back and Capture Town, While Italians Take Ten Thousand Austrian Prisoners. London. General Joffre and the troops of France on August 8 demonstrated demon-strated their unabated power on the main fronts in the west. In Picardy they won a momentous success. At Verdun they crushed a terrific German blow, and, seizing the offensive out of the hands of the Teutons, swept forward for fresh gains. In a furious forty-eight hour battle, extending from the Hem wood to tne river Somme, the corps of General Foch have driven in the German lines on a front of three miles and three-quarters three-quarters for a depth at some points ol a third of a mile. South of the Dniester river, in the direction of Tyszienca, the Russians have driven the Austro-German forces back along the whole Ime for a breadth of fifteen mil-es, it was officially offi-cially announced by the Russian war department. The announcement adds that the Russians have captured the town ol Tlumach, as well as the region to the east of the Dniester river and the ridge of heights there. Russian cavalry, it is stated, is now pursuing the Austro-Germans southwest south-west of the Ko'.omea and Stanislau railway in Galicia The city of Gorizia, powerful key position of the Austrians on the Ison-zo Ison-zo front, is at the mercy of General Cadorna's advancing army. The Gorizia bridgehead has fallen. After a terrific battle, which had been continuous since Friday and in which the Austrians have lost 10,000 men in prisoners alone, the river stronghold was stormed by the Italians Monday afternoon. The Austrians fell back across the Isonzo. |