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Show i GERMANS REDOUBLE I VIOLENCE OF ATTACK INTENSE ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT BOMBARD-MENT OF FRENCH FOLLOWED BY INFANTRY ATTACK. Aircraft Called to Assistance of Big Guns and Infantrymen in Furious Fur-ious Attacks of Teutons Northwest of Verdun. London. Extremely heavy infantry fighting has taken place northwest of Verdun and on the outskirts of the Bois des Buttes, to the north of the Aisne, with the Germans in both regions re-gions the aggressors. Elsewhere along the line artillery duels of great pro portions are under way. In the sector between Bethincourt and Cumieres, northwest of Verdun, the intense artillery bombardment of the Germans was followed by an infantry in-fantry attack, but over the entire front of three miles it was repulsed by the French with serious losses, except ex-cept between Bethincourt and Le Mort Homme, where the Germalus gained a footing at two points in the French trenches. The Germans three times to the north of the Aisne threw their troops against the French positions northwest north-west of the Bois des Buttes, but none of the attacks proved successful. In the forest of Argonne the French guns effectively Bhelled German positions. posi-tions. North and east of Verdun the artillery duels continue. To the north of St. Mihiel, in Lorraine, and in the Vosges mountains, the gun of both sides have been active. A large number of fights in the air have taken place around Verdun. In these four German aircraft have been brought down. French aviators have again bombarded the station of Brieul-les, Brieul-les, behind the German lines north of Verdun. The British evidently are breaking up the opposition of the Senussi tribesmen led by Turkish officers in western Egypt. Russians are still harrassing the Turks on the Caucasus front and have made further progress against the Teutons in East Galicia. |