Show FLED flEU RY ilY SA SATTL TiLE IS ils STILL sTaLl RAGING Gigantic Struggle for Possession of Village Shows No Appreciable Gain for fOl Either Side GERMAN LOSS IS BIG Thiaumont Work Now No Firmly in Grasp of the French Attacks on Position Are Repulsed PARIS Aug S. S All All German attacks on the French positions last night were repulsed says the French official statement issued this afternoon the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans sustaining heavy losses A bombardment of the most violent violent vio rio lent character took place over the enI entire en en- I tire sector of Thiaumont and Fleury Feury i The battle hattle lasted from 9 o'clock l last st sf night until 8 S this morning the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans making malting unsuccessful efforts the statement adds to drive the Fr French from front Thiaumont work The statement follows The night passed in relative u on the Somme front Between jUhe river Avre and the river we wedis' wedis dis dispersed dis- dis persed period several severD ilio c and took a number of prisoners On the right bank of the Meuse Mouse the cannonading last night was violent on the entire sector between Thiaumont and Fleury The Tile Germans endeavored by furious counter attacks to drive us uS' from the work of Thiaumont which we hold firmly This fighting lasted i from 9 o'clock last night until this morning It resulted in heavy losses to the enemy and each one of their endeavors was repulsed without their being able to obtain the slightest ad ad- vantage The fighting continued with equal spirit in the village of Fleury but it resulted in no appreciable change ch ange Inthe in inthe inthe the situation There has been Intermittent artillery artil lery fighting in other sectors On the right bank banle o of the river to the east of of Pont a after a preparatory artillery fire the Germans delivered upon our positions in the tha forest an attack which resulted in failure under the fire of our machine machine ma ma- chine gunsOn gunsOn guns On the Somme French scouting scouting scout scout- ing aeroplanes delivered seventeen attacks attacks at at- tacks upon the enemy during the I course of which two German machines were seriously damaged and compelled I to land precipitately within their lines Two other German aeroplanes were I brought down in the region of Ver Ver- I dun One fell near Abaucourt and the theother theother I Iother other not hot far from Moranville i |