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Show FRENCH AIRMEN BRING DOWN FOUR GERMAN PLANES PARIS, Dec. 11, noon. Four German airplanes were brought down . yesterday, two of them on the Verdun front and two in the Champagne, the war office announces. Intermittent cannonading occurred south of the Somme last night. The communication follows: There was intermittent cannonading last night south of the river Somme. Klsewhere the night passed quietly. During the day of December 10 two German aeroplanes were brought down on the Verdun front by French pilots. One of them fell in flames near Brabant-on-the-Meuse. The other crashed to the ground near Hermeville. During the same day French avia-' avia-' tors delivered several combats on the Champagne front, during which Ser-geant Ser-geant b'auvae brought down his ' seventh German machine. This airplane air-plane fell in flames at Monthois. A second enemy machine was brought down on the northern boundary of Autry wood. During the night of December 10-11 10-11 French bombing airplanes threw down numerous shells upon munitions depots of the enemy In the region north of Verdun. Several fires and ; powerful explosions were observed. The barracks of the enemy at : Ronagne-Sous-les-Cotets also have been bombarded. |