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Show uu LULL ON ALL THE FIGHTING FRONT London, Aug. 17. For the first fine in weckfl no ' change of Importance Impor-tance was reported fin any theater of the war. T-hnrBdny. Tbs mmrit'loloiLt fighting tcuk iittaaB icm :fia -WEiitera end of the 'BflUfrjh. aniliont lauha fflDm-me. fflDm-me. Six times tUio tGHrmnnfl aidvEnaed in force in -jx (QouncnttB isfTaitt .to 'bond back the BJltbih IlneB nortlnvefit of, F.oalflMn:. immlnn a-xraorin fhnt -ftll of Cheie ranraiatfi -wbkd .repulsed "with I hflirviy llDosefl nmd Unit ,tho 3rtlidh. iinj turn 'captured ribaut 100 .yardfl ot tranches .northwest o! (Baaontin, An Intoreatlng :f imtuxo jq! -th zHitna-j tion on the western front Is that the Germans, contrary to their usual practice, have so far not made an attempt at-tempt to deliver a counter-attack in the region where the French and British claim to have captured nearly near-ly three miles of trenches on Wednesday. Wednes-day. The French are (busily consolidating con-solidating their gains and reports no action of importance on any section of their front, Including the Verdun region. Some mystery results as to the situation on the eastern front For 1 two consecutive days the Russians have confined themselves to the statement state-ment that nothing of importance has occurred. The Austrian and German war offices have been almost equally uncommunicative. The only fighting mentioned by Vienna was tho repulse of Russian attacks on the lines of General von Boehm-Ermolli, who Is in command of the Teutonic forces retiring from the Tarnopol front, Berlin Ber-lin reports the repulse of "Russian attacks at-tacks south of Brody. Tho lull in the Italian operations against Trlest Is unofficially explained from Rome as duo to General Cador-na's Cador-na's desire to straighten his lines before be-fore proceeding with a general offensive of-fensive against the great Austrian seaport. Austrian seaplanes have again raided Venice, but Rome says they caused only slight damage. |