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Show FURIOUS FIGHTING IN WAR THEATRES - REPORTS TELL OF VARIED SUO CESSES FOR ENTENTE ALLIES AND TEUTONS. Germans Report They Have Repulsed Russian Attack nnd Have Borrf. ' 'barded Aviation Naval stat,on4H.. on Osel Island. vBftM'' London. Battles of heavy proportions propor-tions havo been In progress In all the theatres except tho Balkans. Sue- jf cosscs for the entente allies and the Teutonic allies havo varied. On tho Verdun front, where for two months tho Germans and Froncb havo been almost continuously In battle, bat-tle, tho Germans, according to an cstl Jfe mato of tho French war otflce, up to ' April 22 had used thirty divisions, or about 600,000, In tho fighting or In ,' reinforcing units which suffered heavy losses. The Germans claim tho capturo ol French trenches In tho Verdun region southeast of Haucourt and west ol Dead Man's hill, whllo Paris records tho taking of several German posta in the Avocourt wood. Hill No. 304 Is again under tho heavy bombardment bombard-ment of the Germans. Trenches! taken 'by tho Germans from tho British on the Langomnrk- U YpreB road havo been ovacuated owing to floods, which mado their consolidation consolida-tion Impossible The Germans aro still using tholr big guns against the Ikskul bridgehead bridge-head on tho Russian front, and farther south havo repulsed a Russian attack In the Lake Narocz region. Tho an- nlhllatlon of a German scouting party near Lake Vygonovskoyo and tho destruction de-struction of an Austrian post north of Czartorysk aro reported from Petro-grad. Petro-grad. Ten German aeroplanes havo bombod tho Russian aviation station on Osel island in tho Gulf of 'Riga, at tho entranco to tho Baltic sea. : Tho Italians and Austrlans havo r fought a sanguinary engagement on tho Oarso front near iSclz, In which tho Italians captured 360 metres of ' Austrlans trenches and took a number num-ber of prlscners and a quantity ot rifles and other war stores. |