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VERY IMPORTANT1 ACTION. I I GREAT GERMAN ONSLAUGHT. Enemy Claims "THREE THOUSAND PRISONERS. Verdun the Objective. 1 Fierce Battle Raging. (Press Association War Service, i The following dispatch was received by telephone at 1.40 this morning — PARIS. Wednesday. 11 p.m. The official communique issued to-night states: — In Belgium destructive fire by our artil- lery made several breaches in tJie German trench es opposite Steenstraete. To the north of the Aisne our batteries wrecked the enemy's work on Veauclerc plateau. In the region north of Verdun the German attack was carried out in accordance with anticipations, viz., as a vei y important action prepared with the most effective means. The battle continued to-day with Crowing intensity, and was energetically sustained by our troops, who inflicted the enemy extremely heavy losses. An uninterrupted bombardment with large calibre shells, to which our artillery rplied with equal violence, extended along a front of nearly 40 kilometres irom Malancourt to the region opposite Etain. The German infantry action, with very large contingents, comprising troops of Seven different army corps, succeeded one another in the course of the day between Rrabant-srur-Meu.sc and Grnes. Just outside the village of Haumont, the enemy, in spiu- of all his efforts, was unable to dislodge us from our positions. In the Bois des Caures, of which we hold the major portion, our counter-attacks ren dered nugatory the enemy's offengi Ve. East of the Bois de. L'aures the Cermans were able to penetrate to the Bois de la Wavrille as the result ot a aeries of sanguinary attacks nOi th of Ornes. The enemy's assault against our line at Jlerbebois was checked by our counter- attack. There was no infantry lighting on the right bank of the Mouse, nor between Omes and Fromezey. In Alsace veste: lay, towards the close of the day, the attacked our position south-east, of ti-e i:, C'arsbach. south- west of Altki.rch. ,1.1: lediate counter- attack threw him OU, ■ I greater part of the advanced elements ut • H he had obtained a foothold. (-Note. -Ma lancoiirt is 8z miles "orth- west, Ornes 7J, miles north, and Etain 10 miles north-east of Verdun. Brahajit-iur- Meuse and Ornes are six miles apart.) ON THE BRITISH FRONT. I PRESS BUREAU, Wednesday, 10.15 p.m. The following telegraphic dispatch has been received: — General Headquarters, France, February 23, 9.35 p.m. There wad some artillery Jttivitv in the neighbourhood of La U SUB see canal and north and east of Ypres. Our guns did consider- able damage to the enemy's positions. On our extreme left we shelled working parties last night, and in some grenade fighting in a mine cr-ater dispersed a party of enemy grenadiers. ) i SCENE OF THE GREAT CERMAN ATTACK. I "3,000 PRISONERS." GERMAN CLAIMS OYER SIX-' MILES FRONT. (Press Association War Special.) AMSTERDAM, Wednesday. To-day's German communique -says i q ue -says:- By means of the explosion of a mine near trenches which we captured on February 2 east of Souchea. considerably damage was done to the enemy's positions. The num- | bet of prisoners here has increased to 11 officers and 358 men. We also captured three machine guns. ¡ On the heights of the Meuse artillery en- counters continue with undiminished vio- lence. Biwt of the Meuse we attacked enemy positions along the line of the vil- lages of Consenvoy* and Asannes which the enemy had consolidated during the last 18 months with all the devices of the science of fortification in orHer to enable him to in- terfere with out communication roads in the Western Woevre sector. In our attack w? Penetrated enemy positions along an estimated front of ten kilumetreg (over six miles), and yn extreme depth of three kilometres 1,1$miles). In addition to considerable losses the enemy left over 3.00Q prisoners and a con- siderable amount of war material, which has not yet been counted, in om' hands. fn Upper Alaaea yaJi flacked the enemy's position west or^rf &dwefler capturing a tranche? on a-length of 700 mettvs and a depth of 400 metres. We took 80 prisoners there.

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