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Show ON SALONIKI London, March 28, 2:34 a. m. A semi-official dispatch from Saloniki says that five German aeroplanes bombarded Saloniki early Monday. As a result of the raid, 18 civilians wore killed and 21 wounded, the latter ln-cludin ln-cludin a Greek official attached to the finance department Tho Germans lost two aeroplanes, one being brought down near Lake Amotova. Aaln the bombardment has become intense to, the northwest and northeast north-east of Verdun and considerable activity ac-tivity by the big guns also has been shown in Woevro reglon.-southeast of the' fortress. The timo seemingly is not ripe, however, for an infantry attack, and the men on both sides have lain idle in their trenches, awaiting await-ing counterattack. The Germans, after a period of comparative quiet, havo again begun shelling Bethincourt, Le Mort Homme and Cumleres, west of tho Meuse, and are keeping up, with increasing volume, vol-ume, their bombardment of the French positions In the region of Vaux and Douaumont, which have been stumbling blocks for several weeks, in their attempts to gain ground northeast of Verdun. French shells are falling on tho German positions In the Argonne and northeast of the St. Mlhlel salient. The Germans are obstinately resisting re-sisting tho Russian attacks between Dvlnsk and Vilna, but the Russians havo captured two lines of their trenches to tho northwest of Postavy. Twenty bombs havo been dropped by German airmen on the town of Dvlnsk. In the Black sea region the Russians Rus-sians still aro making progress against the Turks. In tho operations betwoen the Italians Ital-ians and' Austrlans in the Qorizla region re-gion the Austrians have captured an Italian position on. Podgora heights. |