Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-08-02 | Page 2 | German Gains at Verdun Soon Lost, French Declare

GERMAN GAINS AT VERDUN SOON LOST, FRENCH DECLARE PARIS, Aug. 1. The official communication communi-cation issued by the war of lice tonight reads: "South of the Somme we captured, in the course of a small operation, a German Ger-man trench between Estrees and Belloy-en-Santerre. About sixty prisoners remained re-mained in our hands. "On the right bank of the Meuse, after a violent bombardment which lasted part of the night, the Germans carried out this morning an attack against our positions to the west and soutli of the Thiaumont works. , Our barrage fire and the fire of our machine guns broke down all the attempts at-tempts of the adversary- Some enemy j groups which had reached as far as our trenches were thrown back by spirited , counter-attacks. I "At the end of the day a grenade at- i tack launched by us enabled us to make ! progress south of the Thiaumont works. About the same time the Germans attacked at-tacked on the Vaux-Chapltre-Chenois front. On this latter point only they gained a footing in some of our advanced elements, from which they were shortly afterward driven out. "Everywhere else their attacks were stopped by our Are and cost them heavy losses, "There was intermittent cannonading on the rest of the front."