Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-06-08
FRENCH FINALLY
SURRENDER FORT
vAUX TO GERMANS
Teut0ns after Weeks of Terrific
Onslaughts Take Outpost
Five Miles from Ver-
dun Fortress.

London, June Fort Vaux, lying
some five miles northeast of Verdun,
which for weeks past the French had
been stuhhornly defending against ter
rife onslaughts by the Germans, has at
last fallen into the hands of the Teu-
tons. according TO Berlin. The men who
defended the fortress to the last sur
rendered to the Germans who also cap
tured a large number of guns. machine
guns and minis throwers. An attempt
To relieve the fort Tuesday resulted in
the capture by the Germans Of 700 un-
wounded prisoners the German report
says.
Paris. however, says the fort was still
in French hands early Wednesday morn
ing, but that since then it had been
impossible to communicate with the fort
owing to the violence of the lombard
ment.
Gains of considerable proportions by
the Russians over the Teutonic allies,
by the Turks over the Russians and by
the Germans over the British are record
ed in the latest official communications
from Petrograd. Constantinople and Lon
don. In the region of Verdun violent
artillery combats are in progress. while
on the Austro-Italian line the Italians
/ continue to hold the Austrians from
/ further advances
In the lighting that is going on from
| rhe Prpet marshes to the Roumanian
| frontier the Russians in their big offen-
sive movement have dislodged the Teu-
tonic allies from fixed positions and
brought their aggregate of men cap
tured up to about 4l,oO. They have also
taken - guns. 13i machine guns and -
bomb throwers. Among the men made
prisoners are 900 officers.
AS an offset to the Russian gains over
the Teutonic allies. however, Constanti-
nope asserts that in Asia Minor. in the
Kope mountain district, the Russians
have been driven eight kilometers east
ward from positions extending over Il
kilometers. suffering losses of more than
a thousand men killed or wounded. The
fighting in this immediate vicinity COW
ers front of over 81 miles, with the
Turks the aGgressors and with the stu-
alton favorable to them, according to
Constantinople.
In addition, in Mesopotamia. tho
Turks claim to have defeated and dis
persed the Russian wings which were
endea vorinG to carry out an envelopng z
movement against them near Khanikin.
northeast of Bagdad, but Petrograd as
serts that the Russians here have cap
tured additional Turkish positions and
| put to flight several battalions OF Turks.
The Germans and the British are still
lighting desperately in the vicinity OF
= Ypres, both sides using their artillery
in heavy commandments and their in
= fantry in occasional attacks. In an in
fantry attack against the ruined village
' If HoOge, east of Ypres. the Germans
e succeeded in capturing the British front
h. line trenches, running through the VII
. lage. but all their attacks elsewhere
- failed
Around Nerdun. In the region Of hill
| Gol and on the right bank of the Meuse
, from Damloup to Douaumont, the bonn
= bar1mcnts continue intense.
: The Austrans again have essayet
y violent attacks against the Italians ir
the upper Arsa valley and northeast o,
AsiaEo, but everywhere We're repulsed
In the latter sector the Italians drove
back the Austrans in a hand-to-hant
. conflict to the bottom of the Campo
mulo valley.