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Show FRENCH CAPTURE 117 GERMANS AND THREE NEW GUNS PARIS. July CS. The night was calm on the French front south of the river Somme, says an official statement issued this afternoon by rlie French war department. de-partment. In the capture by the Frenvh of a srrrmp of houses sout h of Fst r --a on Monday 117 Germans wre made prisoner pris-oner and three new German g ins were tken. The statement says: On tiie Somme front the night was ta.1 m. In the course of th" barl the day before yesterday, when we won a group of houFs south of K.tre-p. we made 117 prisoners. We r-ave brought in three new German guns and much material found in the terrain ini-q ini-q ue red by us July t nnrT ii of S'u e-court. e-court. This hrin-rs the total nun- her of cannon cap tm cd on that day to six. On the riht bank of t he M uese there was great art lliery activity in the . Fleury sector. We piar-ed under -'jur fire and dispersed enemy deta.-n-Jnienfs north of Chapeile Sainte Fin1. Vi At daybreak we trfmhardcd an irn-- po'ant munition depot near run. Thirty - eight sneils were launched on this objective. In the course of the night twenty-nine twenty-nine shells were thrown on the railway rail-way stations at Vflosnen and Brieulles and on the bivouac near I annevoux'. |