The French have had another week of very heavy fighting,
especially in Champagne and at Verdun. They celebrated the fall of the Bastille on Saturday last by capturing half-a-mile of the enemy positions north of Mont Haut and the Teton, over- looking Moronvilliers. Violent German counter.attacke, repeated for three days, failed to oust them from these valuable observation- posts. Our Allies achieved a more important suttees on Tuesday, to the north-west of Verdun. Here, in a few minutes, they flung the enemy out of the trenches west of Hill 304 which he took on June 29th, and, pushing on, captured his first and second lines, on a width of nearly two miles, from Avocourt Wood to the famous hill itself. A few hundred prisoners were taken, but the German loeees, especially in their fruition counter-attacks on Wednesday, must have been very serious. On the southern arm of the great salient in France, the enemy is spending himself in these vain efforts to shatter our Allies' line.
