FORTIFIED POSITIONS
AND THE FRENCH TOOK THEM • — »- v ;. ■. By Telegraph—Pfflss Association—Copyright (Rec. July 17, 7 p.m.) ; London, July 16. / It is officially stated in Paris thai the Germans in the valley of the Southern Feclit fortified positions which they, believed to be impregnable. Tho French preparations before attacking took a; particularly long time because they had : to build over twenty miles of railway,..oi er which they daily carried munitions,; also they lad to construct milos of com-r, munication trenches.
After the evacuation of Metzeral; tha German corpses piled up indicated the frightful losses. They had 6even battalions when the French attacked, aud 1 brought up ten others.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 5
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107FORTIFIED POSITIONS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 5
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