Show lic BIG COUP coui M MADE E BY GEN JOFFRE I I I Switches Offensive From Font Somme and Smashes Ger Ger- mans mans' Verdun Line Continued From Pago Page 1 L I mont tl to Damloup Thirty six hundred I u w u rial wore ore captured b by the the- French The Somme front situation was little changed over night London reports that tho the British have fully consolidated ed the ground gained alne by hy them yester 3 yesterday da day In the tho neighborhood of or Gueudecourt and r L Ls s where the capture of ot 1000 yards of ot German trenches was re re- re ported i There was t no Infantry action along the French lines lilies In tho the Somme region Berlin describes tho the and French operations on the Somme front yesterday Y as another attempt to brenk break the German lines b by the employment of or largo large masses of oC troops and nud declares the effort eUort failed tailed with heavy y casualties north of tho the Somme rows of ot dead beIng being beInS' beInS be be- ing InS piled up on the hold Held I Quiet on OD Enat Eastern rn Front I From tho the Baltic sea to the he Carpathian I mountains a 1 period of or comparative e calm has again set In On the Austro Italian front the Aus- Aus trinna and Italians at various arlous points especially on tho the plateau in the SuSana valley alle In the Plava Playa sector of or I the middle Isonzo and on the Carso Careo front arc vigorously bombarding opposIng opposing op op- op- op posing positions The Tho Serbs In iii the Cerna region reAlon of ot tho the Macedonia 13 front fron t ha have hae e pu put t down a Gor Gar man Bulgarian attack and themselves delivered dell a n thrust which was rewarded by the thc capture of or several eral trenches In the Doiran sector the British also captured captured cap cap- a n. Teutonic allied trench Floods are Interfering with the operations on tho the front Four British and four tour Norwegian steamers have been sunk b by submarines or mines |