Show FURTHER 99 CE ahoe BI germans VILLAGE OF FORGES NINE MILES NORTHWEST OF VERDUN TAKEN BY french artillery does merlou dam age to enemy position south west of metz russians Russian cap ture two town towns further advances by the germans la ja the I 1 eldun region and in charn are told of la in the latest frond communication how ever also records successes in repell ing a german attempt to debouch fur ther from captured positions irions it ions the driving of he the out of a trend they had taken anil and the ft ith the french big guis of organizations after having vigorously shelled th region between betheen BethIn coul and tb th meuse the germans in a strong in lit fantry lantry attack captured the village 0 forges about nine mile miles norths est 0 verdun not satisfied with tho the gall they several times essayed to do bouch froin from the village against th cote de L ole but the french in coun ter attacks forced them back into village aad and held them there it ii 1 claimed by the french in champagne the right and let leb flanks of the french were attacked ba b the germans in the region between mont teu and Matt malorius Ma lorins irons de champagne at tho the former point the french firt kept the germans to their trenches tren clies but near malson de do champagne they the succeeded in occupying a email small section of a french trench in the argonne the french blew u a german post near courtes chaus sees with a mine and captured a pon por tion of the crater near haute cha the germans sprang two mines and later entered the french trenches at several points counter attacks however drove them out and the french also occupied a portion of the mine crater except tor for the infantry attacks at forgea forges the guns on both sides in the verdun region have been doing all th work to the mouths et est of metz near pont a coussons sons the french artillery has heavily damaged german post the russians under cover of 0 the fire ot of their fleet at last have been able to make a landing on the black sea coast sat to the east of ond capt urit g the towns nf atina and ma ila pravaj and driving off the turks who opposed them two officers and end men were taken prisoner and two guns and a quantity of munitions were captured considerable fighting between the russians and the germans germane ha has taken place in northwest russia the rus stan artillery smashing ema ahing german trenches in the t he riga sector and dia persing scouting parties in tho vicin ity of friedrichstadt Friedrich stadt owing to the heavy rains and avalanches fighting has almost ceased on the austro idallan front |