Paris, Feb. 24.
The evening communigué:—
Artillery activity somewhat slackened between Malancourt and the left bank of the Mouse. Up to the present there has been no infantry action in this region.
We repulsed and pursued an enemy reconnaissance in Lorraine which attempted to approach one of our small poste north of St. Martin.
We concentrated our fire on the enemy works at Maison-de-Ohampagne and south of St. Marie-&-Py and carried out s destructive fire against his works at Fille Mort London, Feb. 28.
An official communique issued in Berlin to-day launs the oaptare of the villages of Bécumont and Ames and four farms, while the positions of the enemy up to the ridge of Loucement were stormed.
The communique makes the ro-markable statement that* the sanguinary losses of the enemy were extraordinarily heavy and those of the Germans normal. It claims a total of 10,000 prisoners for the whole battle.
The official communique issued this evening reports North of Verdun there wae heavy fall of snow all day.
The activity of artillery of both sides continued with great intensity on the whole of this front, especially cast of the Meuse, where the fighting raged with undiminished desperation, Several German attacks, made with a great number of effectives and with unprecedented violence, on Poivre Hill were unsuccessful. Another attack on La Vouche Wood was also stopped.
There was no infantry action west of the Meuse.
We attacked and captured an enemy salient south of Ste, Mari Py, in Champagne, taking %00 5 soners.
We effectively bombarded the enemy works in Argonne.
There was an artillery duel in the Fecht Valley, in the Vosges.
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