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Show FLEURY VILLAGE NOW OCCUPIED BY FRENCH TROOPS PARTS, Aug. 19, noon. The remainder remain-der of the ruins on the edge of the village of Fleury, on tlte Verdun front, was captured last night by the French, the war office announced today. The battle continued violently all night lout; and the French won their wav forward foot by foot. The announcement says: North of the Somme the enemy during the night delivered several violent counter attacks against the positions taken by us yes er-dny er-dny and on the preceding' days, 1 from the region north of Maurepas to Clery. All the enemy's attempts were broken down by our machine gun firo and the energetic couuter offensive of our' grenadiers, and j were unsuccessful except at one ! point, where the enemy gained a j tooting in a small piece of trench j north of Maurepas. We took about fiftv more prisoners during the night. South of the Somme the artillery fighting was verv spirited in the regions south of Belloy and Es-trees. Es-trees. On the left bank of the Meuse yesterday the Germans delivered two attacks with grenades northeast north-east of Avocourt redoubt and against our trenches on hill 304. The enemy was forced' to fall back. On the' right bank of the river the fighting which began yesterday yester-day continued obstinately. Our troops captured foot vby foot the clump of ruined houses which the enemy was still occupying on the edge of Fleury. The entire village is now in our possession, notwithstanding notwith-standing two violent German counter coun-ter attacks. East, of the Vaux Chapitre wood German counter attacks brought about no appreciable change. The number of uu wounded prisoners taken by us on the right bank of the Meuse during the fighting of August 17 and 18 exceeds 300. On the Somme, Second Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Guynemer brought down on August 17 his thirteenth ae.ro-plantJ, ae.ro-plantJ, and yesterday his fourteenth, which fell .between Bouchavesnes and Clery. - On August 17 Second Lieutenant Haurtetux also brought down a German machine, making the fifth which this pilot haR brought down up to the present time. |