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Show FRENCH ANNOUNCE THE CAPTURE OF TOWNS AND GUNS PARIS. July 26. Capture of the towns of Viile Montoire and Oulchy-le-Chateau is announced by the war office. The French took four cannon and many hundred prisoners in this fighting. The statement follows: Yesterday afternoon French troops captured Ville Montoire after deliberate delib-erate righting and captured 200 prisoners, pris-oners, as well as twenty machine guns. Further south, Oulchy-le-Chateau fell into the hands of the French. The French made progress east of the towns and captured four cannon. During combats yesterday In the region re-gion south of the Oureq the French took many hundreds of prisoners. |