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Show THIAUMONT WORK IS RECAPTURED French Use Bayonet on Germans Ger-mans and Drive Them Out of Fort. Paris, Aug. 4, 10:58 p. m. The French troops in the region of Verdun twice during Friday captured the Thlaumont work from the. Germans, holding It the last time in the face of a counter attack, according to the French official statement tonight. After having captured and then evacuating the village of Fleury under German counter attacks, the French troops Friday afternoon In a bayonet attack reoccupled the greater part of the village. vil-lage. The official statement Bays: "On the Somme front our artillery has 'bombarded enemy organizations. Wo destroyed near Bunmain, to the south of Peronne, a German captive balloon. "On the right bank of the Meuse fighting continued all day in the region re-gion of Thlaumont ' and Fleury and to the northwest and southwest of (he Thlaumont work. All attempts to dislodge us from conquered positions failed. We not only broke the enemy's efforts, Inflicting heavy losses upon him, but In a second offensive of-fensive move our troops succeeded in capturing for the" second time Thlaumont Thlau-mont which remains in our possession, posses-sion, notwithstanding several enemy counter attacks. "Fierce fighting Is going4 on at Fleury. After having evacuated the whole of the village this morning ns a consequence of several Gorman attacks, at-tacks, our Infantry this afternoon captured with the bayonet the greater part of the village. The enemy is still resisting energetically. The number bf unwounded prisoners taken by us today is more than 400. "In the region of Vaux La Chapl-tre Chapl-tre and Chenols, violent bombardments bombard-ments took place, but there was no Infantry action. "Thirty-four of our air squadrons (aeroplanes) carried out several bombardments bom-bardments in the region of Verdun. Thirty-two bombs were dropped on the Stenay station and eighty-four on the Montmedy and Sedan stations and bivouacs in the region of Damvil-lers." Damvil-lers." Belgian communication "In the region of Dlxmude the artillery fighting fight-ing continued all day. Some local artillery ar-tillery actions occurred at other points." |