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Show FRENCH OFFENSIVE NOTABLE PROGRESS. Paris. April 13. The French counter coun-ter attacks northwest of Verdun appear ap-pear to be progressing favorably. For the moment the French have, to a great oxtent, assumed the direction of affairs. In the neighborhood of Vnux lake the Frpnch. capturing a Inrge network net-work of trenches and redoubts, also made 214 prisoners, of whom teu were officers and sixteen non-commissioned I officers. This unusually lnrgo propor-I propor-I tion of officers, four or five lime moie than normal, uas a good omeu for the operations, which continued with even greater success. I Tho only point at which tho Ger-I Ger-I mans retained the capacity of an otten-f otten-f sive was In the center. Here they i managed to gain a footing in tho French lines south of Fort Douaumont, but at night tho French threw the Germans from their newly-conquered positions. Elsewhere along the front the Germans Ger-mans were upon the defensive and were unable to prevent further progress pro-gress In the French offensive move-' mont n the southern part of Haudre.-mont Haudre.-mont wood. The situation at Verdun continues to justify the optimism felt by the French higher command after the first few days of the attack two months ago. .Meanwhile there are signs of a re-enidcsenco re-enidcsenco of activity upon other sections sec-tions of the front. |