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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Says a dispatch of yesterday from London: "A violent counter offensive- against the German petitions at Roiiaumont has been licgun by the French. This is admitted in the BEerltn general stalls state-nient today. That the French have made some gains in their new attacks is Indicated clearly in the Ger-man â– aiwiail mi at that they were "partially repulsed. More significance is added to the reports cone-ernini: the- combat around Douaumont. in the minds of British military observers, by the Paris statement that since- the piercing of the French line at that iM.iiit. admitted yeaterday, tin- German in-fantrv assaults have ceased. The German war office slates that the fighting is at close range and that heavy losses have been Inflicted Bpoa the French, hut no mention is made today of any Teutonic gain in the region of Yordim. It is claimed, however, that 1,000 French prisoners have been eap-tuie-d in the- Douiiiinonf straggle. The artillery duel continues 10 rage witli aaabated fury, the l.erlin statement adds, the French batteries increasing their activity on both sides of the Min-c." Two Zeppelins were wrecked in Belgium on February 21, according to aa Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam. **One f the Zeppelins, returning from the front, evidently was bit by enemy artillery." said the dispatch. "It fell at Baheaee, damaging a house and injuring eighteea children. Another fell at Haiaaaalt. The debris was loaded "ii a train for Cologae."
