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Show IAWFUL SLAUGHTER IN BATTLE MEN MOWED DOWN BY MACHINE GUNS LIKE GRAIN BEFORE THE REAPER. Germans Announce Capture of Five Towns In One Day, While Allies Report Lessening Activity of Teutonic Forces. London. With the lessening of the activity of the contending forces to the north of Verdun, the French in the Woevre region, east of Verdun are using their artillery to break up German preparations for further advances ad-vances toward the fortress. At various points the Are of the French guns has prevented the Germans Ger-mans from launching offensives. The losses have been heavy, attack ing parties being mowed down by machine ma-chine guns. One correspondent declares de-clares that during a charge by the Germans, "the French machine guns placed in 'batteries every five yards, began to play and we saw the dead in groups upright where there was not room for them to fall." The Germans on Tuesday reported the capture of five towns southeast of Verdun. They are Dieppe. Aboucourt Blanzee, Manhuelles and Champion. The advance was over a front twelve miles long and represents a gain of from one to four miles in three days. In the Vosges mountains there also has been great artillery activity by the French near Senones and Ban-de-Sapt, while near Seppois the Germans have been driven out of trenches they had previously taken. In the Champagne Cham-pagne German fortified works in the region of hill No. 193 have been battered bat-tered by the French guns and the crater of a mine exploded by the Germans Ger-mans was occupied 'by the French. The Germans have added several additional points to their terrain in the fighting about Verdun, having been enabled to construct trenches on the elopes north of the Cote du Poivre and to capture an armored work northwest north-west of Douaumiont and have taken the towns of Manhuelles and Champ-Ion, Champ-Ion, thirteen miles southeast of Verdun. Ver-dun. . In this drive to the east of Verdun the advance of the Germans has extended ex-tended over a front of virtually twelve miles from Dieppe to Champ-Ion. Champ-Ion. - Berlin reports that thus far they have taken prisoner 228 officers, 16,-575 16,-575 men and a large numlber of guns, machine guns and much war material. There has faeen considerable artillery artil-lery activity and fights in the air between be-tween battalions of German and British Brit-ish aviators along the British front in France and Belgium. In the Dvinsk region of Russia the Russians have driven the Germans back and advanced their line and put down under heavy fire an attempt at 1 counterattack. In a lengthy statement in reply to an official communication issued from Constantinople the Russian general staff describes the powerful defenses which guarded Erzerum and declares that the force of the blow dealt by the Russians can be estimated (by the fact that some of the Turkish army corps of three divisions each now numlber only a few thousand men, all the remainder having either perished or have been taken prisoners. A Central News dispatch from Pet-rograd Pet-rograd says the ..Turks are hastily evacuating Trebizond and the neighboring neigh-boring towns on the Black sea coast of the Caucasus region. Want Bigger Guns. Washington. Experimental long range firing 'by the Atlantic fleet and information about naval battles in the European war virtually have convinced con-vinced the navy department that battleships bat-tleships to be authorized this year should carry ten sixteen-inch weapons weap-ons aboard ships of the Pennsylvania and California class now built or building. Threatened by "Black Hand." Cleveland, Ohio. "Black Hand" threats caused Judge John H. Clarke, presiding in United States district court here to withdraw from the trial of cases of four men charged with destroying the postoffice at East Youngstown during the recent strike riots there. Split in Spanish Cabinet. Madrid. Finance Minister Urzaiz has resigned on account of differences of opinion with the other members of the cabinet regarding the financial policy of the government, it is announced. |