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At Verdun fighting of the character to which we have

become familiar during the past four months has prevailed throughout the week. "Mutual cannonading" has been almost constant, and there has also been a considerable number of German infantry attacks and French counter-attacks. In the case of the attacks the French have generally succeeded in checking the enemy. The French curtain of shell and machine-gun fire has been so furious and so well directed that it has marked a line across which few Germans have been able to pass alive.

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