Feb, 22.
The official communique issued. this evening reports The enemy north of Verdun, after a violent bombardment, on both banks of the Meuse, launched a series of violent attacks between Brabant and Herbebois. They were all repulsed except at Hau-mont Wood and the salient north of Beaumont, which the enemy, at the cost of heavy losses, succeeded in occupying.
Our curtain fire northwest of Fromezy prevented an attack which: was in preparation from debouch-
There was great artillery activity in the region of Ban-de-sept and west of Altkirch.
Paris, Feb. 22.
The official communique issued this afternoon continues:—
The Germans exploded a mine at Roclincourt; we occupied the crater.
There was further artillery activity at Verdun.
The enemy infantry attacked eastward of Brabant-sur-Meuse, gained a footing in our advanced trench and reached the second line but were driven out, the French taking numbers of prisoners.
Two German attacks in the region of Seppois were repulsed.
'A Zeppelin dropped bombs on Lunéville, but did only slight damage. French aeroplanes chased an aeroplane to Metz.
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