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Show IlLlllTliili rtl IlUlsLU Berlin Announces the Evacuation Evacu-ation of Trenches Taken From the French in Lorraine. London, March 5. The Germans in the region of Verdun are being hard held to the positions they occupy by the French. The fighting throughout the region is still vigorous but it consists con-sists mainly of artillerj duels. Douaumont is tho storm center and here and in the wood to the east of Vacherauvllle. on the east bank of the Meuse, have occurred the only infantry in-fantry attacks. On both these sectors sec-tors the Germans were repulsed by the French. The German attack at Douaumont extended from the Haud-remont Haud-remont wood to Fort Douaumont, but according to Paris, it was stopped by the enrtain of fire and the rifles of tho French Infantry and ended with the French holding all their positions. Paris reports that in the Woevre region about FreBnes the bombardment bombard-ment Is a powerful one, but adds that the French guns are answering those of the Germans here and along the whole of the Verdun front. In Lorraine near the forest of Thia-ville Thia-ville the French fire, concentrated on the positions the Germans had previously prev-iously taken from the French forced the Germans to evacuate them in order, or-der, according to Berlin "to nvoid unnecessary un-necessary losses." Intense Fighting. The Russians and Germans in northwest Russia have been fighting furiously near Illoukst for possession of tho craters of fourteen mines exploded ex-ploded by the Russians. Petrograd reports that six of the craters were captured by the Russians and that tho Germans are surrounded in a partly 'demolished blockhouse, having suffered suf-fered heavy losses. Unofficial dispatches from Bucharest Buchar-est report extensive Russian troop movements in Bessarabia. Thero has been another clash between be-tween Eulgarian soldiers and Greek frontier guards in tho neighborhood of Macikovo on the Graeco-Serbian frontior. The Paris announcement follows: "In Belgium, to the south of Lom-baerdtczdhe, Lom-baerdtczdhe, tho trenches of the enemy en-emy were demolished by our artillery. "In the Argonne our batteries fired a great number of shells asainst the enemy's trenches and communicating lines In the region of La Haute Chev-achee Chev-achee and at Boureullles, where a fire was started. "In the region of Verdun the fighting fight-ing was confined principally to the village of Douaumont, continuing into tho night At 6 o'clock the enemy after a violent bombardment launched a heavy attack against our lines from the Haudremont wood to the fort of Douaumont. This attack was repulsed by our curtain of fire and by the firing fir-ing of our infantry. "During the night tho bombardment was continued with a fair degree of intonslty over our whole front to the east of the Mouse and to the west of Lo Bort Homme and Cote de l'Ole." i |