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Show SLAVS FURIOUSLY ATTACK GERMANS BEGIN BIG DRIVE ON EAST FRONT, SUFFERING HEAVY LOS8E8 IN FIRST ATTACK. French Holding Germans at Verdun, Air Battle Marking Operations- German Seaplanes Raid East Coast of England. London. With the slackening of tho fighting around Verdun, tho Russians havo started a big offensive movemeift against tho Germans on the eastern front. A raid by German seaplanes on tho east coast of England and by French airmen on Mctz and other German Ger-man towns, tho sinking of a French torpedo destroyer by a submarlno in tho Adriatic, and tho reported torpo doing or nn Austrian hospital ship by an entente underwnter boat, nro ro-corded ro-corded In official and unofficial communications. com-munications. Berlin chronicles an attack of great vlolcnco by tho Russians around Drls-wlaty Drls-wlaty lako and Lako Narocz, but says the Russians were repulsed with great losses, 9,270 Russian dead having been countod In tho Lako Narcocz ro-glon. ro-glon. Saturday tho Germans In tho Vaux Damloup sector, northeast of Verdun, began another spirited attack against French, but wero driven back. The t-ttack was not pushed again during Sunday, and only intermittent bombardments bom-bardments took plnce. Berlin reports tho recapturo of somo ground from tho British northeast of Vcrmllles, In the region of La Bassoe and the driving of tho French from a position northeast of Badonvlllcrs In tho Vosges. London admits tho capturo cap-turo by tho Germans of thrco mine craters at tho Hohonzollern rcdoubL Tho Fronch guns have been busy bombarding German trenches in Champagne and German depots north east of SL Mlhlol. Fivo French air craft dropped bombs on Mctz ammu nltlon depots near Chateau Sallns nnd tho aerodromo at DIeuz, while twenty-three other machines attacked the aviation camp at Habshelm and the freight station at Mulhausen. In battles bat-tles In tho nlr which followed, tho Germans and tho French each lost three or four machines. A German airship attacked tho cntento allied fleet south of Salonlkl, but with what result Berlin does not say. Thrco officers and forty-four men of tho crow of the French torpedo boat destroyer Renaudln wero lost when n Teutonic submarine sent the vessel to tho bottom in the Adriatic. In a raid by four German seaplanes over Dover, Ramsgato and Wcstgate, at least nine persons wcro klllod and thirty-one Injured. Ono of the seaplanes sea-planes was brought down thirty mllos at sea by a pursuing British aviator. Tho German observer was killed. Tho German admiralty officially do nles that a German submarlno was ro sponslblo for tho sinking of tho Dutch passenger steamer Tubantla. |