BRILLIANT COUP AT VERDUN
The lull oil'the'Western front has been broken by' furious attacks on the British lino near Thiepval, and on the French lines at .Esirees.and Soyecourt. In neither case did the Germans achieve any permanent results, and in both cases they lost heavily. The British on thoir side have added another stretch of German trench to their line, while the French, iii.a brilliant: attack between Floury and Thiaiiniont, uiado matorial progress. On tho Russian front a German offensive has been attempted south of Brody,.with no result except a lieavy casualty ..list.: The Russians in Asia Minor, bjvtheir counteroffensive in the Lake Van region, havo wrecked the Turkish plans for drawing them away from Erzingan anil Sivas. There are.no matorial developments on the Italian front. The mystery of the Gorman transAtlantic submarine Dbutsohland still romains—-Berlin says that there is no news; Copenhagen saye that she has arrived at Bremen. '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2859, 25 August 1916, Page 5
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150BRILLIANT COUP AT VERDUN Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2859, 25 August 1916, Page 5
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