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Show i ; HEAVY FIGHTING EAST OF VERDUN I Germans Have Captured First Line Trenches From the French Forces. Paris, June 23. The Germans have gained another step in their progress toward Verdun by capturing French positions northeast of that fortress Fighting along a front of more thfn . three miles on the right bank of the j Meuse, the German forces, following the usual artillery bombardment in the face of violent fire from French . guns, carried the French first line trenches between Hills 321 and 320 and also the Thiamont fort. At the same time the Germans have held back the advance of the Russian for-- for-- ces from Dvinsk to the Galician bor-l bor-l der jj i Fierce fighting marked the advance j toward Verdun. Paris declares in ad- v mitting the loss of the trenches and ) the fighting line the Germans reached ; Fleury. about three and a half miles ; northeast of Verdun, but Paris says j they were repulsed there by a violent ' counter attack. Paris states the at- tacks on the woods of Vaux, Chapitre, , Fumin and Chenois, and on the Dam- loup battery were broken, and re-i re-i pulsed. i South of the Damloup battery, in , the sector of Moulainville, and on the ' left bank of the Meuse, in the region ; of Hill 320 and Le Mort Homme, the French positions are being heavily bombarded by the German guns. Russians Continue. The Russians have advanced far- , , ther Into Bukowlna in pursuit of Gen- 7 eral Pflanzer's forces, but farther S. north iu East Galicia and Volhynia d their progress apparently has been fr , arrested by the violent attacks and l ' couutor-attacks of the Teutonic allies. v ! Advances for the German and Austri- alJ an forces west and southwest of Lutsk in Volhynia, and the repulse of U ' Russian counter-attacks on the Stok- itl hod and Styr rivers in the same re- Sj glon and along the Galician frontier W in the vicinity of Brody, are chron- lcled in the Berlin and Vienna com- j j raunicntlons. French aeroplanes have bombed r German stations and cantonments in y the Verdun region and Austrian sea- a ' planes have attacked Venice, dropping dj . bombs on Forts NIcolo and AlberonI, A ' the gns -works, and the arsenal. it ' In Mesopotamia, Constantinople i-1 claims to have checked the Russian W , advance and to have driven the Rus- Jt ; slans out of Paitak Pass, on the Per- 8ian frontier, through which they at- i tempted to enter Mesopotamia. i! oo A Mercedes, Tex., June 23. Forty -; Mexican bandits crossed the Rio Grande tonight into the district south rj of Harlingen, Texas, according to re- ij ports received here. A company of i the Twenty-sixth infantry, it is re- fi. ported, was sent from Harlingen to 'j Intercept them. Colonel A. P. Block- J Bom, commanding tbe Third artillery 3 stationed at Mercedes, had no official 3 confirmation of the crossing. |
