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Show FRENCH REPULSE GERMANATTAGK TEUTONS' ATTEMPT TO TURN FRENCH POSITION ON VERDUN FRONT CHECKED. Canadian Troops and Germans Battling Bat-tling Fiercely on Ypres Salient. Violent Artillery Duels Along Russian Front. London. Th" region of A'aux and Damloup, northeast of Verdun, has been the scene of further futile attempts at-tempts of the Germans to pierce the FTench lines. All the attacks werft set at naught by the French lire, except ex-cept a night attack between Damloup and Fort Vaux, where the Germans obtained ob-tained a foothold in French trenches. From these, however, they were immediately im-mediately driven out by a counterattack. counter-attack. The Canadian troops and the Germans Ger-mans have been battling fiercely on the Ypres salient. The German guns opened up several days ago, deluging the Canadian positions and the surrounding sur-rounding territory with shells. Then the German infantry advanced along an extended front of almost two miles, capturing trenches. In a series of counterattacks, in which bombs and bayonet played an important part, the Canadians regained most of the lost ground and have reorganized their positions. po-sitions. On the Russian front violent artillery ar-tillery duels are going on in the Bes-sarabian Bes-sarabian and Volhynian sectors. Several Sev-eral Russian infantry attacks against the Austrians were repulsed. The Italians in the region of Arsl-ero Arsl-ero are holding the Austrians . from further advances in the desperate struggle that is going on in this region. re-gion. The Austrians, with large effectives, ef-fectives, attempted to break through the Italian line in the direction of Onaro, but were driven back. The bombardments are still heavy on the other sectors of the Austro-Italian front. According to unofficial advices from fealoniki, General Sarrail, the French commander, has declared martial law in the entire zone occupied by the entente en-tente allies and the allied troops have taken over the telegraph office, the port and customs house at Saloniki. |