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Show GERMANS DIE! CUT OF TRENCHES FRENCH CLAIM SUCCESS IN IN-FANTRY IN-FANTRY CHARGES IN THE VERDUN REGION. The Claim is Made by Germans That Attacks by Frenchmen Were Repulsed. Re-pulsed. Victory in Air Fight Claimed by French. London. The French and Germans on several sectors to the northwest, of Verdun have been engaged in relatively rela-tively heavy infantry fighting, with the results evidently in favor of the, French. To the north of Le Mori Homme the French seized a German trench and captured fifty-three prison; era and to the north of Cumieres made a similar gain in which thirty prisoners prison-ers were taken. Berlin says that strong French attacks from Le Mort Homme to the northern part of. the Caurettes wood were repulsed. On the remainder of the French front, except from small infantry attacks, at-tacks, notably in the Vosges mountains moun-tains and in the region of Lassigny, bombardments alone have been in progress. In fights in the air the French claim that their aviators have brought down four Fokkers and four other German aeroplanes, while Berlin says that in a fight" over Verdun a French machine ma-chine was shot down. Except for an Austrian attack on the Col Di Lana, which the Italians repulsed, re-pulsed, only bombardments have taken place on the Austro-Italian line. In the region south of Lake Narocz, a further success for the German arms against the Russians in the capture of four guns, one machine gun and eighty-three eighty-three prisoners is reported by Berlin. |