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Show SEIiS HE THREE ATTACKS IT H POUT Assaults, All of Which Are yRepulsed, Mark Beginning of Movement to Widen Salient at Verdun. CAPTURE OF STONE QUARRY REPORTED Russian Troops Carry Chain of High Hills West of Erzerum by Night .. Assault. f ffpf!al CaMe br Arrangement with London Pally I Tlrmph ad International Xm Srlc-.) LONDON. April 19. With clearing weather the Germans have renewed thlr bombardment along the whole- of the , front north of Verdun. The midnight of- ! flcial statement from Farts reports a furious cannonading of the big guns in tli Pouaumont-Vaux sector, while upon the opposite bank of the Me use the Qer- mans are apparently preparing for an- other attack along the Mort Homme-Cumieres Homme-Cumieres front and against hill No. 804. T T'ne only infantry action of the day was southeast of Verdun, whew the Germans, Ger-mans, striking on an entirely new sector, launched three successive attacks against the French positions at Les Eparges. The assaults, all of which failed of thetr object, ob-ject, apparently mark the beginning of a movement to widen the salient south of i the fortress, which has Its apex at St. I MihieJ. The German report claims a further advance south of the Haudremont farm, in the Vaux district, where the Germans are attempting to forte an entrance into the va.ley of the Meuse and work their way t-acK of the northern fort?. The stone quarry 700 yards south of the farm, they report. Is now firmly in their hands. |