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Show BANS IN HEAWFI1II1 Battle for the Village of Poz-ieres Poz-ieres on Somme Troops From Verdun. Paris, July 24. At Pozieres the Austrians are still fighting furiously with the Germans for possession of the village and the head of the road leading from it to Bapaume, and the greater part of the village now is reported re-ported to be in the Austrians' hands. There has been a diminution in the vicious fighting which began Saturday Satur-day night along the British front from Thiepeval to Gulllemont. A condition of comparative calm prevails south of the Somme along the French line where the only fighting reported and that a minor engagement engage-ment resulted in the French capturing captur-ing a German battery south of Est-rees. Est-rees. Eastward, in the Verdun region, re-gion, the French have occupied a German redoubt- west of Thiaumont, taking with it five machine guns and two score prisoners. Berlin still asserts that the only result re-sult of the British attack Sunday along the Thlepeval-Gulllemont line was tho penetration of a few houses in the village of Pozieres and that the Austrians obtained these only after af-ter having suffered sanguinary losses. That German troops have been removed re-moved from the Verdun front for tho Somme operations is apparent from the German statement that Brandenburg Branden-burg Grenadiers "of Douaumont fame" defeated the British in tho fight Sunday at Longueval. Although unofficial reports have credited to the Russians big gains against the Germans in the Riga region re-gion of Russia, neither the Petrograd nor Berlin communications have as yet recorded any important changes in terrain there. Petrograd claims the dislodgement of the Germans from the village of Galitchanie, on the Lipa river in Vol-hynia, Vol-hynia, while Berlin says that near the Galiclan border in southern Vol-hynia Vol-hynia strong attacks by the Russians against the German line were repulsed. re-pulsed. Emperor William is reported to havo left the French front to observe ob-serve the operations in the east. Premier Asquith has asked the Brit lsh parliament for an additional credit vote of 45,000,000 pounds the largest request since the beginning begin-ning of the war. |