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Show FRENCH WIN ON VERDUN FRONT London, Aug. 8. General Joffre and the troops of France today demonstrated dem-onstrated their unabated power on the main fronts in the west. In Picardy they won a momentous success. At "Verdun they crushed a terrific Ger-man Ger-man blow, and, seizing the offensive out of the hands of the Teutons, swept forward for fresh gains. In a furious forty-eight hour battle, extending from the Hem wood to the river Somme, the corps of General Foch have driven in the German lines on a front of three miles and three-quarters three-quarters for a depth at some points of a third of a mile. An entire trench system has been captured, and the French have extended ex-tended their positions around hill No. 139, the dominant crest of which looks down on Peronne. Germans Halted. Before Verdun, beating back with grim resistance the most terrific attacks at-tacks yet launched by the German crown prince In the sclge of the fortress, fort-ress, General Nivelle's defending army has brought the German offensive to a dead halt, for the moment, at least. And seizing the Initiative, the French have themselves taken up the attack with the result that a section of the shell-battered Thiaumont work is again in their possession. oo SURRENDER OF LEM BERG HAS BEEN FORESHADOWED London, Aug. 8, 9:15 p. m. A proclamation proc-lamation foreshadowing the surrender of Lemberg, capital of Galizia, was issued by the governor of the city on August 4, says an Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph company dispatch from Bthuecharest On -the same date, the dispatch adds, the evacuation of the city by the civilian population was ordered. The proclamation declared the Aus-trians Aus-trians would return shortly to wrest Lemberg from the Russians. oo FRENCH CARRY GERMAN , TRENCHES ON LONG FRONT Paris, Aug. 8, 11:30 p. m. Notable gains have been made by the French In the Somme battle, according to the official statement issued by the war official tonight. In two days have carried German trenches along a front of more than three and a half miles, to a depth of from three" hundred to five hundred metres. In the Verdun sector they have succeeded in regaining a foothold in the Thiaumont work. oo ATTA BOY! Adam Good is a member of the Younsstown, (Ohio) police force, and thev say he is that kind of a policeman. |