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Show SALIENT TAKEN BY ALLIES IN HALF AN HOUR PAPJS, July 8, ;40 p. m. The official of-ficial communication issued tonight reads: East of the Somme, notwithstanding- the persistent rain and fog, our j troops delivered an assault this j morning on the village of Harde-court Harde-court and on Mamelou to the north in co-operation with the British armv, which attacked from its side the TBois de Trones and a farm situated situ-ated 'southeast of that wood. In thirty-five minutes our infantry, y the vigor of the attack, was in possession pos-session of the desired objects. Two German counter attacks, one from the north, the other from the east, were launched in the afternoon after-noon on Mamelon, conquered by us, but wore broken by our tire. 'The Germans suffered heavy losses in these actions and left 200 prisoners in our hands. South of the Somme there was no event of importance to report. On the Verdun front our first and second lines were subject to an intermittent in-termittent bombardment. On the left bank the activity of the artillery artil-lery continued, very violent in the sectors north of south Ville, the Furoin wood and the Damloup battery. bat-tery. 1s be usual cannonading occurred on the rest of tho front. Belgian communication : In the sectors of Boosinghe and Stee-nstraete we continued successfully success-fully today our destructive fires on therGerinan defensive works. The enemy responded feebly. In the region of Dixmnde quite violent artillery actions have occurred. |