Show FRENCH IN SLASHING DRIVE VE REGAIN VERDUN AREA AREAn JJ c f L- L c t y I n et in ill One Day Undo Work It Took Tools Enemies Enemies' Two Months to Accomplish 1 G t GERMANS GERMANS' f MAN S J 1 t ll LINE E BENT BENI BENTt j. j t IL r 1 i KW ARll I L S General Joffre offie Switches Off Offensive Offensive Of Of- I f From Somme and Smashes Center for G Gain tin in of Two T Miles l Along Front of Four Miles ii t JT rr AND 1 I r i j T TI THIAUMONT HIA Ul RETAKEN 1 I r Serbians erga fans Make l Gains in in 1 1 the M Monastir 1 Campaign I J Austrians and ana Italians rE r y Are re Vigorously sly Bombarding BombardI Bombard Bombard- rd J I ing mg Opposing Positions TERN ASTERN F FRON ro L I fl f i t London Oct 25 1258 a a. a m nl- nl Military experts exports here point out that the French coup at Verdun I has hs regained virtually all the w h ground pound lost in the second battle of or Verdun This was accomplished accomplished accomplished with lightning suddenness sudden sudden- 4 tress ness in a single day whereas the Germans occupied nearly two months in wresting this ground r f from rom the French r J L T ONDON Oct 24 Switching 24 Switching their I J I offensive from the Somme j t region in possibly Prance France possibly ns a n. counter coun coun- 1 t. t ter ur to the advance ad of the in inI I rj Ir The lie rc region ion o of Rumania Rumania- the lie French have smashed the German 1 Ene north and northeast st of V Verdun ever a front of four and third one-third tiles Hiles eg penetrating it along its tR entire length h in the center gaining a dis- dis 1 Note of nesTI nearly two miles miles j Pre Preceded ded by a violent bombardment 71 toch nth a. a as i marked the great attacks and CC s during the da days s 's when i 1 was the focal point In world i I Interest tho the offensive was as delivered ap- ap gt from tho eastern bank of 1 It tie the Meuse Mouse river near Bras eastward to toUs toi i Us tte Damloup ba battery rt 1 Pu h Beyond T t When night fell the tho village and fort fortt t tt d In the tho center wore were In It th th hands of ot tho French while on their theirl I l left Jet l Jt wing the Frenchmen had pushed eo I Thiaumont and captured the 11 quarry and taken up potions po po- along the thc Bras liras road J Oa Da O their right wing witH considerable also had been made fl from om V 1 f. f Continued on laJe r |