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Show FRENCH WINNING " BUCK POSITIONS MAKE SERIES OF NIGHT ATTACKS EAST OF- MEUSE AND TAKE TRENCHES. Whole of Bukowina Taken by Russians, Rus-sians, it Being Claimed the Great Southern Austrian Army is in Flight. London. By a series of night attacks at-tacks the French at Verdun have succeeded suc-ceeded in winning back positions east of the Meuse, lost to the Germans on Saturday. These winnings consist of trenches west of the Thiamont redoubt and certain parts of the town of Fleury, Just south of Fort Thiamont. . It was to capture these points that the crown prince threw in, and, according ac-cording to the French official reports, sacrificed his Bavarian regiments In. the Saturday action. The crown prince evidently is determined de-termined to make another desperate effort to recapture the terrain, a bombardment bom-bardment of "redoubled violence," on Fleury and Froide Terre (Cold Earth hill), having begun. It is still in progress. The whole rich Austrian crown land of Bukowina- 4,037 square miles has fallen to the Russians. The Austrian stand at Kuty on Saturday Sat-urday was only a rear guard action, it seems, for Sunday Vienna officiall admitted ad-mitted a retreat from end to end of the duchy. The great southern Austrian army is therefore, in flight along the whole line. |