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Show SLAVS FURIOUSLY ' ATTACK GERMANS BEGIN BIG DRIVE ON EAST FRONT 8UFFERING HEAVY LOS8ES IN FIRST ATTACK. French Holding Germans at Verdun, Air Battle Marking Operations German Seaplanes Raid East Coast of England. London. WIUi tho slackening ot tha fighting around Verdun, Uio Itusslanq havo started n big offensive movomen against tho Germans on tho astorn front. A raid by German seaplanes on tho cast coast of England And by French airmen on TMetz and other German Ger-man towns, tho sinking of a French torpedo destroyer by a submarine in tho Adriatic, and the reported torpedoing torpe-doing of an Austrian hospital ship by an entente underwater boat, aro to-corded to-corded in official and unofficial communications. com-munications. Berlin chronicles nn attack of great vlolonco by tho Russians around Dris wlaty lako and Lako Narocz, but says tho Russians worb repulsed with great losses, 9,270 Russian dead having been counted in tho Lako Narcocz to i glon. ' Saturday tho Germans In tho Vaux Damloup sector, northeast of Verdun began another spirited attack against French, but wero driven back. The attack was not pushed again during Sunday, and only intermittent bombardments bom-bardments took place. Berlin reports tho rccapturo of some ground from tho British norUieast ol Vermilles, in tho region of La Bassce and tho driving of Uio French from a ' position norUieast of Badonvillers in tho Vosgcs. London admits tho capturo cap-turo by tho Germans of thrco mine craters at Uio Ilohenzollern redoubt. Tho French guns havo been busy bombarding Gorman trenches In Champagno and German depots northeast north-east of St Mlhlel. Five French aircraft air-craft dropped bombs on Metz ammunition ammu-nition depots near Chateau Salins and tho aerodrome at Dleuz, whllo twen-ty-Uireo oUier machines nttacked tho aviation camp at Habstielm and tho freight station at Mulhauscn. In battles bat-tles In tho air which followed, tho Germans and tho French each lost thrnn or four machines. A German airship attacked the entento allied fleet south of Salonlkl, but with what result Berlin docs not say. Thrco officers and forty-four men of Uio crow of tho French torpedo boat iostroycr Renaudln wero lost whon a Teutonic submarine sent the vessol to tho bqttom in tho Adriatle In a raid by four German seaplanes aver Dnvor. Rai!Hgato and "Wpstgatp, it least nlno persons woro killed and thlrty-ono injured. Ono of tho seaplanes sea-planes was brought down Uilrty mtlos at sen by a pursuing British aviator. Tho Gorman observer was killed. Tho Gorman admiralty officially do-nlos do-nlos that a German submarine was ro-sponslblo ro-sponslblo for tho sinking of tho Dutch paasenger steamer Tubantla. |