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Show FORT VAUX fS IN HANDSOFFREHCH CLAIM THAT RING OF DEFENSIVE FORTIFICATIONS ABOUT VERDUN VER-DUN IS ESTABLISHED.' Violent Fifihting Marks Austro-Ger-man Attempts to Penetrate the Plain of Rumania. Italians Make Additional Gains. London. There have been no heavy actions on the Somme front the past few days. The French have made slight gains at Sailly and the British have taken a German trench east of Gueudecourt. Berlin admits the loss of portions of the village of Sailly-Saillisel, but announces an-nounces the repulse of British attacks east of Gueudecourt and of French advances upon the northern part of St. Pierre-Vaast wood. Fort Vaux, in the Verdun region, has been occupied by the French, following fol-lowing its evacuation by the Germans, and with Duoaumont already regained the ring of defensive fortifications about Verdun has been re-established. On the eastern front fighting has taken place east of Kovel, in Volhy-nia Volhy-nia and southeast of Lemberg, in Ga-licia. Ga-licia. Berlin announces the repulse of seven Russian attacks against the Austro-German positions on the left bank of the Narayuvka river, near Halicz in Galicia, while Petrograd says the Russians have reoccupied part of their trenches on the west bank of the Stokhod in the region of Kiselin, in Volhynia. Near Lipnicadolna, in Galicia, the Russians have pushed back the Austro-Germans in some places. Violent fighting continues to mark the Austro-German attempts to penetrate pene-trate ' the plain of Rumania, south of Kronstadt and Hermanstadt and toward to-ward Bucharest. The stiff defense of the Rumanians is yielding slowly to the blows of Austro-German artillery and infantry about Predeal, and Berlin announces further progress south of the border for them. A dispatch from Rome says: In the zone from Gorizia to the Adriatic sea the Italians have captured additional points of vantage from the Austrians and taken 3,948 more prisoners and guns and quantities of arms and ammunition, am-munition, according to the official communication issued Friday. |