Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — FRENCH TAKE THE OFFENSIVE [ARTICLE]

FRENCH TAKE THE OFFENSIVE

Capture Redoubt and Trenches in Re. gion of Vaux—Take 200 German Prisoners. Paris, April 21.—French troops have taken the offensive on the east bank of the Meuse river in the second battle of Verdun. The official communique announced that a successful French attack was carried out in the region of Vaux. The assaulting force captured a redoubt and some trenches which the Germans had constructed after their advance against the northeast front, of Verdun. Two hundred German prisoners were also taken by the French.