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Show I! FRENCH GAIN ON I VERDUN FRONT I j Germans Attempt An Attack P on the British, But Are t i Driven Back. M I Paris, Aug. 7. The Germans have W : suffered further losses at the hands K of the French between the Ham -wood r and the river Somme, losing there a S lino of their trenches and 120 prisons' prison-s' 1 ers and 10 machine guns, and also in 1, & the Verdun sector where the French I made progress south of the Thiau- ! I mont work and captured, five machine ; $ guns and took some houses in the tf, western part of the village of Fleury. P After a heavy bombardment of the jj if British positions, the Germans launch- 1 I ed violent infantry attacks north and I ' northeast of Pozleres and at two j places succeeded in entering British : trenches. Their success was not long lived, for the British soon drove them ; out, inflicting heavy casualties on them, Amid continuous heavy rains which ; have turned the country Into a quag- ' mire, the Russians are keeping up their strong offensive against the Teu- ' tons in northern Galicia and have '? pushed farther forward their lines s against them In the Sereth and Gra- j berkl river region. I Also along the Stokliod river in , Volhynia, near the town of Zaresze ; the Russians have driven the Teutons from their trenches, and occupied 5 them, taking 12 officers and 100 men j prisoners and capturing one machine ) gun in the operation. In the Carpa-j Carpa-j thians the Germans report the cap-i cap-i ture of two peaks from the Russians. Rus-sians. Constantinople reports a series of gains for the ( Turks fighting against the Russians ' and Petrograd admits i at least one of the claims that the :( Russians have been forced to retire i under pressure to the region east of j Kermanshah, Persia, An attack by the Russians north of Bukan, on the I Persian front, was put down with heavy losses to the Russians, accord-i accord-i in to Constantinople, and in Turkish ii Armenia near Bitlis and Slush the rj Russians have been put to flight and the Turks have taken from them po-I po-I sitions the Russians had previously ! occupied. Violent fighting is in progress be-' be-' tween the Austrlans and Italians on various sectors, especially around the Gorlzia bridgehead, on the Doberdo plateau, and on the lower Isonzo river. riv-er. Near Monte Sabanito the Italians f captured advanced Austrian positions, but Vienna says the greater portion of these were later re-taken by the Austrlans. On the lower Isonzo, Rome reports the capture by the Italians Ital-ians of Hill 81, which was held against violent counter attacks. |