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Show FRENCH DRIVES ON BOTH SIS ' OF 1EUSF WINj i General Petain's Men Cap-1 ture German Positions i Near Vaux and on ! Dead Man Hill. COUNTER-OFFENSIVE TO GERMAN STROKEj Intended as Reply to Crown j Prince's Attack From Direction Di-rection of the St. Mihiel Wedge. it' -i tvi-i .V, ,. ? M.ii, Vlc,.!i Aid L. ' ti.t'.-.;.: .S.. N.-..i Tl 1.1'M'ON', Apnl ' '.--i:,tr and w.-t I t the M. the 1'rereh, a.-cor iin; ! I ' heir of t iciitl report , I. jve driven t he j German, out vt imj oM.w:t pe--i; imiv The victurie. won un two mi.-c- i c day W e lne d:iy an-! t od:i - - -iv-n-,: i tuto t he ino-l 0 it. ; hm ph:i-e uf the French connter-oi ten-d e -iiee i'.s i:d-:iatiun i:d-:iatiun on April iV On odnoday th- Fr.-i.!, i-if.nify tta.ked the (..-ma-n v.-r hw r-t oi .Vaux. nr:hcat -f 'crd.:n, .;;.tuiv! 1 ertain sc.-Tion.-- oi tin- Gfrn.an T rcn-he-, took a re 1-Tjl-t and a ! rc in:i;t..-r of iTiM-ner, Mi l iiitli. tcd hecny b.-!t--rt on the cf"Mi jTiiii-e'n ';. ditiny men. Tod, iv the 'u t;.-h f tnij; their in taiirry Kt:a.k n the t'eui M.m liill e.-r nn, ve; of the t i . an. drou ". )i e G e r ir a 1 1 s u m t of ni - - -1 of t h trenehes Whfh the Gern:tii: had been j h.ddini: o'! the ?!o; e o; thut upland ince April 1". Counter to German IJlow. The pre-rnt Freid, ..ffen-ive i held by piili'ary cniii-- li-re tc be a ror.nW on he n-'ir (ierii.an activity at I.r K parses, ihirtein mib-s ouihei't of Verdun. This a'tivitv, rientral 'c'nin evidently believe?, mis a part of the German htratev t S'piceo m tjie ex-tren.e ex-tren.e ritrht flnrii; of the h'ren-h force-on force-on the eije of tnc- Witfvre (dain. The flerii.l'.n uffieial staten.cnt refers to a ' Vtrofig at;a -k'! bv tl.e F'reneh in L'aillette wood, but averts it a.t rr-puNeil rr-puNeil with heavy lo-bei. The eomniuiiicat ion is-ued tonijjht reads as folio a ; In ti e Arnnnt our artillery cannonaded can-nonaded the road of communication communica-tion behind the enemy front and the Malancourt wood. Wc?t of the Meitae treat artillery activity prevaile-l in the pee tors of hill yr'l and Avocourt. An attack launched by us in the region of Le Mort ffomtne enabled us to drive the enemy out of some sections of a trench occupied by hirn on April 10. Violent Bombardment. Fast of the Meuse a violent bombardment bom-bardment occurred in the region of Douanmont and Vai;x. There were some artillery mts in the "Woevre. Tho day was comparatively calm on the rest of the front. French resistance in the region of Verdun is compelling the German general gen-eral staff to withdraw large forcen from the Teuton front in Macedonia and Serbia and in Russia, according to information in-formation obtained today from the highest high-est military authorities here. The first rLivision of the first German army corps and another division not yet identified are said to bo among ttie troops which have just been brought from the other fronts. The Eighteenth army corps and the Eleventh Bavarian division, it is declared, have been brought from Serbia. Offensive at Vaux. French troops took tho offensive last 'night in the Verdun region on the right bank of the Mouse. The war oflice an ; nouncmnent of this afternoon says that ;-hey captured parts of German ; trenches, occupied a redoubt and took I several hundred prisoner;. The text of the statement follows: In the Argunue at Haute Cbevau-chee Cbevau-chee there has been some mine work which resulted to our advantage. We ca.ised the explosion of a small mine, which destroyed some subterranean subter-ranean works of the enemy. On the left bank of tho Meuso tho bombardment of our second line continued con-tinued last night. On the right bank of tho river our troops yesterday yester-day evening delivered a spirited attack against the German positions north west of the Pond of Vaux. This operation made it possible for us to occupy certain sections of the German trenches, as well as a fortified redoubt, in the course of this action, which caused heavy (Continued on Page Four.) FRENCH WIN ON BOTH ' SIDES OF THE MEUSEj Continued from Page One.) losses to the euemy, we took pris- j oner tpu ofiicer, sixteen under- : ottirers and 214 men. In addition 1 to this we captured several machine tzunb and a certain quantity of war material. In the Woe we our artillery has directed a concentrated fire upou the communicating roadways of the enemy. There has been no event of importance im-portance on the remainder of the front. |
