Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-07-14
BRITISH RETAKE
LOST POSITIONS
London Says Foe Was 0usted
From Mametz Wood.
GERMANS GAIN AT vERDUN
Berlin Statement Says Teutons Moved
Forward on Right Bank of Meuse
and Captured 2,136 Pris-
oners.

London, July 13.-The British have
retaken the ground lost to the Ger
mans, according to the official state
ment, and now hold all of Mametz
wood. Two German attacks against
Contalmaison were repulsed.
The text of the statement reads:
1.-THE day was marked by sharp To-
cal fighting in certain areas of Ma
metz wood. We recaptured all the
ground lost at night and now hold the
whole wood.
I'VE also made some progress in
Trones wood. The very large number
of German dead in this vicinity shows
the costliness of their attack last night.
1.-TWO heavy German attacks against
Contamination completely broke down
under our fire.
Germans Are Reinforced.
"Since the commencement of the
battle the enemy has received large
re-enforcements. Strong hostile attacks
were made against several points of
our new positions.
Except in Mametz wood and
TrOnes wood, in both of which local.
ties the Germans regained some
ground, all these attacks were beaten
off with loss to the enemy.
Between the main battlefields and
the sea we have been actively en-
gagged in bOmbarding the enemy's
positions and raiding his front line.
Southeast of Loos a party of royal
Irish fusiliers penetrated the enemy's
trenches at point where they were
strongly held, and remained there for
20 minutes, during which time heavy
fighting took place in the trenches.
Many Germans were killed. Our cas-
ualties were slight.
Enemy Trench Occupied.
opposite the Hohenzollern redoubt
two companies of Seaforth Highland
ers forced their way into another por-
ton of the enemy's trenches, after a
stiff fight Many Germans were killed
or wounded"
French Hold Near Verdun.
Paris, July 13.-The Germans deliv-
cred two attacks at night on French
position in the neighborhood of Dead
Mans hill on the Verdun front. The
war Office announcement says that both
these assaults failed, breaking down
under French fire. East of the Meuse
the French took part of the ground
won yesterday by the Germans.
In these operations the French took
so prisoners, of whom one is an officer.
There were no developments at
night on the Somme front, but the
French conducted successful raids in
the Champagne and in Lorraine.
Berlin Claims Verdun Gain.
Berlin, July 13, via London.-Ger-
man troops on the right bank of the
River Mouse pushed forward their po-
sitions to a point nearer SOuville and
the Laufee works, taking 80 officers
and 2,106 men, says the official state
ment issued by the German army
headquarters staff
The statement follows:
"The fighting which began on the
afternoon of July 10 on both sides of
the Bapaume-Albert road near Con-
talmaison and in Mametz wood, as
well as new fighting in Trones wood
and south thereof, is continuing with
bitter stubbornness.
"South of the Somme the French
suffered severe check in a great at
tack which they prepared on the Bel
loy-Soyscourt front. The attack
broke down completely under our fire
and weak forces which had been
thrown against the Maisonette- Bar
leux sector fled to their starting point
with heavy losses.
1000 Prisoners Taken.
I'm the Mouse region there were
only small engagements to the left of
the river. To the right of the river
we pushed forward our positions
nearer Souville and the Lauffee
works, capturing 80 officers and 2,106
men. A strong counter-attack was re-
nulSed completely"