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Since turning the tables on the Germans at Verdun the

French have held their superiority. In the middle of last week they recaptured the shell-bitten husk of the village of Fleury. A furious battle followed, in which the French temporarily lost posses- sion; but they regained it, and now are fairly well established there. Thiaumont has changed hands twice during the week, but we have little doubt that the French will win it back, though the Germans hold it at the moment. In the first three days of August the French took seventeen hundred and fifty German prisoners on the right bank of the Meuse.

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