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Show FRENCH ABANDON SALIENT AT NIGHT 3ERMANS FAIL TO CLOSE THE NECK OF THE SACK AND BAG 120,000 MEN. Teutons After All Day Attack Succeed in Entering the French Trenches, Only to be Driven Out -by Frenchmen. Paris. The Bethincourt salient, which for weeks had projected like a wedge into the German lines northwest north-west of Verdun, has been evacuated by the French. The evacuation was carried out under un-der cover of darkness and without interference, in-terference, and the French, through the move, have been enabled to straighten out their line, which now runs from the corner of the Avocourt wood to the south of the crossing of the Bethincourt-Esnes and Bethin-court-Chattancourt roads. Violent attacks delivered all day by the Germans against the new positions posi-tions found the French line unwavering unwaver-ing and all of them were repulsed, except (between Avoncourt wood and the Forges brook, w-here the Germans succeeded in entering the French trenches, but were almost immediately immediate-ly driven out. Northeast of Verdun around Pepper hill and on the Douaumont-Vaux sector, sec-tor, the Germans heavily bombarded French positions, but were unable to launch an infantry attack in the face of the fire of the French guns. The capture of 150 metres of German trenches southwest of Douaumont is reported by Paris. On the rest of the lines in France and Belgium artillery duels alone have been in progress. The offensive of the Russians against the Germans in northwest Russia has simmered down to mutual bombardments and bombing attacks by the German and Russian aviators. Artillery actions in the Lake Narocz region continue. |