New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

I tack was made in the Foureaux Wood,
which has been the scene OF some OF
the hottest fighting Of the war, and
when IL ended the British were in pos
session Of the High Wood, the most i'm
portant part Of the position. The French
attack, which won a few trenches south
OF Estrees, was apparently in the nature
OF a rectifcation Of position.
At Verdun the French held on
against violent German attacks in
Fleury, and even succeeded in extend.
ing their ground little northwest or
Thiaumont. though this is described as
merely patrol work" The Germans
have abandoned their heavy attacks
here and in the Chspitre wood, but
! kept UP q heavy cannonsde. Berlin
now claims 582 prisoners taken on this
front Paris claims $500 csptlves IN
the last week, mostly in the Nerdun
| region.
Aeros Direct Artillery.
Tho Allied control OF the air, which
is making possible the wonderful ar
tillery work that pulverizes the Ger
nan trenches and let's the Poilus go
forward with slight losses. was again
shown all along the front IN to-days
fights. Germany reports the destruc-
ton Of two aeros-one French and one
British. The British make no mention
of the days aerial encounters. But
the French were busy. Here is their
record:
Three German aeros before Verdun
1.-TWO by the same mani; two German
captive balloons; 2s4 bombs dropped
on German depots and railway stations
by air squadrons, one Of which MADE
no less than seven raids in one night:
In addition. they directed the work OF
the guns and attended to the task, now
become fairly easy. of keeping German
machines away from the French lines.
British Communique.
To-night's British statement says:
"The enemy made two attacks early
this morning on the ground we had
gained northwest of Pozieres. In one
Of these attacks, by the use of liquid
fire. he temporarily forced us back
along one of the trenches we had cap
tured. but later We recovered all but
some forty yards of the ground thus
lost.
ain the other attack the enemy was
repulsed with loss.
'1n the afternoon we made some
progress along the trenches east OF
Pozieres in the direction OF Martin
puich. Considerable artillery activity
was reported near Carenchy and Loos.
South of st. Eloi we raided enemy
trenches, causing many casualties.
"The improved weather enabled use
full work by our artillery in connection
with the aeroplanes, and we destroyed
several gun emplacements.'
An earlier announcement read
"The enemy's artillery was active
during the night, shelling various
areas on and behind the front between
the Ancre and the Somme. little
further progress was made by us at
High Wood.
Northeast of Arras the enemy, ap-
parently alarmed by one Of our pa
trolls. opened heavy hombardment.
which lasted fourteen minutes. The
, situation is unchanged
French Gain on Meuse.
To-night's French statement says:
con the right bank of the Meuse the
Germans bombarded violently from 8
o'clock in the afternoon the Thiaumont
work and our positions at Fleury, in
the Chapitre Wood and at Chenois.
There was no infantry attack during
the day.
THE cannonading was intermittent
on the rest of the front.
This morning one Of our pilots
brought down successfully two enemy
aeroplanes in the region Of Nerdun.
One fell in the French lines, the second
between the German trenches and our
trenches. The same morning. after
combat, another German machine was
compelled to land within our lines at
Moyenneville, north of Estrees. The
two enemy sviators were made prison
ers. The machine was of a recent
model. II was intact"
Joffre Extends Lines.
An afternoon statement read:
South of the Somme two small local
operations have enabled US to progress
into German trenches southwest of Es-
trees.
North of the Aisne an enemy sur
prise attack on our positions on the
Vauclerc Plateau failed under the cur
tain Of fire of our artillery.
"0n the right bank of the Mouse,
during patrol fighting at some points,
we have sensibly enlarged the ground
conquered by US at the northwest Of
Thiaumont work. We have repulsed
counter attack in the same region.
an the region of Fleury and in the
sectors of Chapitre and Chenois artil-
lery fighting continues, without any in
fantry actions.
"On the night of August SO our air
squadrons dropped forty shells on the
region of Combles, eighty-four on the
station of Noyon, thirty on the sta
tons of Stenay and Sedan. forty on
the station of Contains, sixty on the
Sablons station at Metz and the rail
way establishments there and forty on
the military establishments of Rom
bach, north of Metz.
Several Of these squadrons made
two consecutive raids. One of them
made no less than seven raids during
the same night
"On the Somme front our aeroplanes
set on fire two German captive bal
looms.
"A German aeroplane dropped four
bombs on Baccsrat There were no
casualties and the damage was insig-
nihcant."