GERMANS CLAIM 15,000 PRISONERS.
COSTLY FRENCH COUNTERATTACKS. AMSTERDAM, February 27. A German communique states : Five French attacks in an attempt to recapture Douaumont were repulsed with sanguinary enemy losses. Wc captured Champ Neuville and Talon Hill, and fought our way to the neighborhood of the southern border of the wood north-east of Bras. Our troops east of Douaumont stormed the fortifications of Hardaumont. Our front on the Woevre plain is advancing against the Lorraine hills. The nnwonnded French prisoners now total 15,000.
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Evening Star, Issue 16050, 29 February 1916, Page 3
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