Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-06-30 | Page 1 | Violent Attacks on Verdun Line

VIOLENT ATTACKS . (WEil LINE- Picked German Troops Advance Ad-vance and Are Almost Annihilated An-nihilated by French. ARE HOLDING SLOPE Burning Liquid Used in Assault As-sault on the Aisne Meet General Repulse. PARIS, June 30. The Germans resumed re-sumed their violent attack on the Ver-dun Ver-dun front west of Dead Man hill last night, the war office announces. Picked Pick-ed German troops advanced on a sector sec-tor of one and three-fourths miles and Tvere almost annihilated by tho French The Germans penetrated the first French line over the entire front attacked at-tacked but were driven out excepting on the western slope of Dead Mau hill. The French made a counter attack west of hill No. 304 and took back most of tho trenches lost Thursday. On the Aisne front the Germans at. tacked northeast of Corny, employing burning liquid. They occupied a salient sal-ient after the defenses had been leveled lev-eled by shell fire but were repulsed elsewhere.