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Show FR E 1 1 C H Liik ill VERDUN HOLDS GERMANS' ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW UP DOUAUMONT SUCCESSES ARE REPULSED. Heavy Fighting Continues . With Ger mans the Aggressors, But No New ' Changes in Position Have Taken Place. London. Heavy fighting in the region re-gion of Verdun continues, with the Germans still the agressors, 'but, according ac-cording to the latest French official communication, no new changes in position have taken place. Following tip their recapture of Fort Douaumont, northeast of Verdun, the Germans have striven, but ineffectually, ineffectual-ly, to drive out the French from the approaches to the fort, where they drew lines when forced to vacate the fort itself. The attack was a strong one, but Paris reports that it was repulsed, the Germans suffering heavy casualties. This was the only infantry attack in all the Verdun region, says Paris, but the artillery of both sides has been extremely active on all sectors and especially in the region of Avocourt and Hill 304. The British and Germans have confined con-fined their recent fighting mainly to .-bombardments and sapping operations. opera-tions. There have 'been several minor linfantry attacks and bomb throwing expeditions toy ;both sides, nut In these no material advantage accrued to 'either. Eighteen persons have been killed and a score injured in an Austrian air raid on Bari, on the Italian Adriatic coast. The victims were largely women wo-men and children, the dispatch adds. |