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Show FRENCH REPEL ATTACKS EXCEPT AT ONE POINT i PARIS. June 1. 10:50 p. m. The official offi-cial communication issued by the war office of-fice tonight reads: On the left bank of the Meuse there was an intermittent bombardment in the region of the Avocourt wood and Le Mori Homme. On the right bank, after a very violent vio-lent artillery preparation, the enemy a Hacked our positions from the Thiaumont farm as far as Yaux. After several fruitless assaults the enemy succeeded in penetrating our trenches of the first line between Fort Douaumont Douau-mont and Vaux pond. Everywhere else the German attacks were broken by the fire of our machine guns, which caused heavy losses to the enemy. en-emy. There was less artillery activity on the rest of the. front. Aviation: This afternoon a group of German aeroplanes dropped several bombs on the open town of Bar Le Due. Eighteen of the civilian population popula-tion were killed, of whom two were women and four children. Twenty-five Twenty-five persons were wounded, among whom were six. women and eleven child reu. "' An aviatik attacked by one of our aeroplanes was compelled to land in our lines south of Berneconrt, in the region of Toul. The two enemy aviators avia-tors were taken prisoner. |