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Show GERMANS DRIVEN OUT OF POSITION THEY CAPTURED PARTS. July 7, 11:45 a. m. Quiet prevailed pre-vailed last night on both sides of the Somme, says today's war office statement. state-ment. The artillery of both sides was active on the left and right banks of the Meuse, especially on the Thiaumont earthworks and in the Fleury and Cbenois sections. A small German attack on the French trenches at the Le Pretre woods failed. German aeroplanes yesterday dropp3d bombs on the open town of Liire, killing eleven persons, all of whom, except one, were women and children. Two German machines were brought down near Mezleres. The statement says; The night passed quietly on both sides of the Somme. On the left bank of the Meuse there vas an intermittent bombardment, bombard-ment, while on the right bank the artillery fighting became violent in the vicinity of the Thiaumont work and in the sectors of Fleury and Cbenois. At Le Pretre wood the enemy en-emy yesterday delivered a small attack at-tack upon one of our trenches, but was driven out the postlon where he succeeded in gaining lodgment. In this same sector a surprise attack by us in all respects was successful along a front of 200 yards. Our grenade throwers cleaned out the trench of the enemy and we brought back some prisoners. German aeroplanes yesterday threw several bombs on the open town of Lure. Eleven persons were killed and three were wounded. With the exception ex-ception of one soldier, all the victims were either women or children. This was an act of reprisal for our aerial activity of July 6, when one of our air squadrons threw down with success suc-cess forty bombs on the railroad junction at Hem, to the west of Charlevllle. On the return trip from this point there were a number of engagements with German machines, in which our escorting aeroplanes took part. Two German airships were brought down, ono near Mezleres and the other in the region of Leffin-court. |