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Show GERMANS GAIN FRENCH TRENCH Capture Piece of Ground to the Northwest of Cumieres, Near Verdun. Paris, May 29. The Verdun region and southern Tyrol continue the thea ters wnere me most sanguinary Dat-tles Dat-tles are taking place. While the Italians Ital-ians are holding back the Austrlans from further advances and Inflicting heavy losses on them In counter-attacks In Tyrol, their German allies have been able to make another gain In the capture of about 300 meters of French trenches northwest of the village vil-lage of Cumieres. on the left bank of the Meuse near Verdun. Fighting In great intensity has been In progress around Hill 304 and between be-tween Le Mort Homme and Cumieres, but except near Cumieres all the Germans' Ger-mans' onslaughts were set at naught by the vigorous counter-offensive of the French, The sectors east and west of Fort Douaumont, northeast of Verdun, have witnessed still another violent artillery duel but no infantry attacks were launched. The artillery of both sides has been busy along the remainder re-mainder of the front In France and Belgium. Except for a report from Petro-grad Petro-grad that the Germans have repeatedly re-peatedly bombarded the railway line to the east of Riga, no operation of moment has taken place on the Russian Rus-sian front. Minor successes have been obtained by tho Russians over the Turks in the Rlvandouzn region of the Caucasus front. Nothing new has come through with regard to the maneuvers of the Bul-gars Bul-gars in Greek Macedonia, where important im-portant events are expected because of the Bulgarian advance Into Greek territory. oo |