Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-12 | Page 20 | British Repulsed in New Attack on Somme

BRITISH REPULSED IN NE NEW ATTACK ON SOMME Trench Raid Carried Ci Out by I T on Verdun Front 71 Iff Nm nhe I lo III BERLIN Jan 5 Via Yia Sa The British have ha begun to attack again As-aln ou on the Somme front The Ger Ger- German man lUan war office announced today that two to assaults were delivered in the carl early morning north of or the The attacking forces were able ahle to lo gain aln an initial success 5 it was admitted but later were vero forced back hack into inlo their own I positions b by a German counter attack At one point fighting is' is still in progress A trench rR radl l was carried out by bythe the Germans on the Verdun front There Theo lies has been artillery duelling between be tween the front and the Franco Franco- Belgian frontier and fighting with mines and antI big Runs guns uns alon along the Meuse l river and in the mountains the report says