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11th FERNS IIA It It At; FERNS
I.- pedal Cable to The Times-Dispatch.
PARIS, May 7.?Afternoon official:
South of the Somme the Germans, after intense artillery preparation, made an attack last evening on our trenches south of Limon. They were stopped by our barrage fire and their forts dispersed before they reached our wire entanglements.
In the Verdun region the night was marked only by a continuous and violent bombardment in the region of hill 304 and at the Thuringia Farm, in the Hatimont Farm, in the Hatimont sector.
South of St. Michel we repulsed a strong German reconnoitering party which attempted to attack one of our small posts to the east of Bislec.
In Lorraine we surprised a patrol which had crossed the river Somme near Lanfrolcourt, southeast of Nomeny. We returned with fourteen prisoners.
During a small part of the day here today about twenty of our captive balloons broke from their moorings. Some were carried into the German lines, while others came down within our lines. Most of the observers were able to descend back of our lines. 