The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-05
Failed to Win Back Thiau-
mont Work After Des-
perate Efforts
COMMANDMENT
MOST VIOLENT
The Battle Lasted All Night,
Says Paris Official
--"~ Report

Paris, Aug. 5.--All German attacks on
French positions last night were repplsed,
says the French official statement, and
the Germans sustained heavy losses A
bombardment of the most violent charac-
ter took place over the entire Thiau-
mont -Fleury sector. The battle lasted
all night.
The Germans made unsuccessful ef-
forts, the statement says, TO drive the
French from the Thiaumont work.
After a spirited engagement in Fleury,
the situation is without appreciable
change. In Somme the situation is quiet.
The battle RACES north of Verdun with
something of its old fury. The defend
ers, after beating off repeated counter at
tacks by the Germans, again took the
offensive and once more recaptured the
greater part of Fleury and the celebrat-
ed Thiaumont works. The success at
Thiaumont is looked upon as more i'm
portant as an evidence of the energy OF
the French infantry than as a military
achievement. The work is so swept by
the artillery of both sides as to be of
little use to the possessors.
fTeDCn Officers DOlUl W lut tuhb
the efforts of the Germans are now re-
stricted to the Fleury Thiaumont section
as evidence of the growing weakness OF
the invaders forces in the Meuse region
London Aug. 5.-Verdun, almost quies
cent during the Anglo French offensive IN
the Somme region, has again become the
storm center on the western battlefront.
The French forces have taken the often
sive on the right bank of the Meuse and
now hold the Thaumont work and the
greater part of the village of Flsury, ac
cording to Paris.
The main German second line system |
on a front of two thousand yards north |
of Pozieres on the Somme front has been
captured by the British, the war office
announces.
The Thiaumont work, already the
scene of many desperate combats, was
twice in French hands during II hours
on Friday. The forces of the German
crown prince fought tenaciously, driving
the French from the work once but los
ing it again. German counter attacks
were of no avail, says Paris, and the
work remained in the possession OF the
French.
Fleury, which changed hands Thursday
after the French had succeeded in taking
it, is again almost entirely occupied by
the French. Fierce fighting still contin-
ues in and around the village. German
unwounded prisoners taken in the Yer
dun fighting number 400. p,
On the Somme front, in northern +
France, there has been little infantry |
activity, both the British and French off !
~ Al IL 60; @~r l..
moves on the part of their armies. Lon I
don says the Germans bombarded the I
section southwest Of Pozieres and also r
the southern portion of the Mametz {
wood. !
On Eastern Battle Front. e
Desperate counter attacks by the Ger t
mans in the region of the Stokhod river, II
east of Kovel, have resulted in the re-
Lirement of the Russian forces which had e
seized the village of Rurka -Miryanskaia. t
The fact that the village is only 10 miles C
from Kovel, the Russian objective on II
his part of the Volhynan front, prob n
IDLY accounts for the intensity Of the n
lighting there. i
The Russian general Sakharoff's troops e.
continue to advance south of Brody and c'
oward Lemberg. Petrograd reports the W
,apture of 1900 AustroGermans in "
hot attack" on the line of the Sereth y
md Graberki rivers 4
A squadron of British naval aeroplanes re-
las attacked with bombs German mill Ia
AIRY establishments in the vicinity of H
,hent, Belgium. London says consider G
BILE damage was done by the dropping g
f two tons of bombs. Unofficial reports VI
eceived in Amsterdam apparently con- p
rm this claim.
The Russian troops have crossed the
iver Sereth south of Brody and have
onsolidated the captured positions, the A