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Show FRENCH ADVANCE I NORTH OFVERDII II Paris, Aug. 2. The armies In the three great centers of recent activity the Somme region of France, Rus- jH sia and Galicla evidently have let up considerably in the violent fight-ing fight-ing from wihch they have been en-gaged en-gaged and are Indulging in a breath-Ing breath-Ing spell preparatory to further at-tacks at-tacks and counter-attacks. Attacking in Echelon on a three-mile three-mile line from the Meuse river to Fleury, north of .Verdun, the French have captured several German trenches and organized points of sup-port. sup-port. In the engagement 600 Germans were made prisoner and 10 machine IH guns were captured. On the Russian front Petrograd re-ports re-ports merely artillery duels and in-fantry in-fantry attacks on the Stokhod and Turla river fronts and of local Rus-sian Rus-sian offensives on the Strlpa river in Galicla, all of which were repulsed. Attacks by the Austrians against the Italians at various points, includ-ing includ-ing Monte Cimons, Monte Seluggio and Castellantte has been repulsed with heavy casualties, according to Rome. The Germans have carried out an-other an-other aid raid on the eastern coast counties of England the third dur-ing dur-ing the present week. |