GERMAN GAINS AT VERDUN
300 YARDS IN EIGHT DAYS
' GRADUAL RECOVERY OF CUMIERES
•By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. PABIS, 29th May.
Th&Geirm&n gains at Verdun during eight days' fighting total three hundred yards. The enemy was not long in possession of Cumieres. A series of grenade attacks on Friday enabled the French quietly to organise two companies of attackers east and west of the village. The eastern column captured a mill at nightfall, and found that the enemy had dug himself in in trenches one- behind the other across the main street. They then proceeded to recapture the houses by siege operations throughout the night. Meanwhile the western column was progressing. The enemy, fearful that the village would be surrounded, hastily threw in heavy reinforcements, but the French maintained their gains, though the Germans are counter-attacking with a-brigade.and ©-half. - .
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 127, 30 May 1916, Page 7
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