The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-09
IN GREAT FIGHT
NOW IN PROGRESS
AROUND vERDUN
THE GERMANS CONTINUE TO
MAKE GAINS SAYS THE
LATEST REPORT.
SECOND ATTACK is STARTED
France Is AnxiousIy Awaiting a
Decision in the Great
Strugglt-A Real Battle Is
Soon to Begin.
SECOND ATTACK is STARTED

LONDON, March S.-Pausing on the
ground they had won on Monday and
Tuesday in their impetus dash south
ward to the west OF the Meuse, the
forces of the German crown prince,
fighting for Verdun, failed to continue
las might their driving attacks, on
the French lines. The renewal of the
great battle, however, is being mo-
mentarily awaited, the persistent ac-
tivity of the heavy artillery indicat-
ing that he time for this cannot be
far distant
The assault on the fortress is now
being pressed with greatest vigor
along the four mile front running from
the north of Cumieras. near the river
to Bethincourt, where the Germans
have already pressed forward into the
CorbeauX woods, between Dead Man
and Goose Hills, the commanding po-
stions held by the French in this sec
tor.
Recent indications, however have in
dieated that no particular part Of the
line is free from the possibility of a
massed assault at any time, and the
battle has been raging with intensity
from the Woevre, southeast Of Verdun,
where the town of Fresnes was yes
terday stormed and taken, around the
curving line at Douaumont and on
through the district just to the west
of he Meuse into the Argonne region.
Even in the Champagne region
still further west there has been heavy
fighting, but this was on the French
initiative. Paris reporting that the
trenches lost to he Germans in, a
surprise attack on March Chad been
retaken in part.
Apparently the operations in the
Champagne district are not directly
connected with the German effort to-
ward the reduction Of Verdun. The
possibility is not being lost sight Of
however that the Teutonic offensive
in force may spread at any time west
ward through the Argonne to the
Champagne. The potentalities of q
drive in either of these sections at
the lines of communication of the fort
ress from the west, notably the Verdun
Chalons railway, have been pointed out
and developments in both are being
closely followed.
Attention is being drawn to the op-
erations of the Russians aong the
Black sea coast in Armenia The ad-
vance in this region is enabling the
central Russian army, well inland, to
keep up it's onward march from Err
derum toward Sivas, some 200 miles
west of ErZerum.
According to the current official
statement from Constantinople the
British army under General Aylmer
on the way to the relief of General
Townshend at Kut-el-Amara, has been
making renewed efforts to advance.
1t is declared, however, that all its
attempts failed.
Rome advices indicate that Italy has
determined to make every effort to
retain possession of the Avlona sec
ton. at the southerly end of Albania.
Allied troops have withdrawn from
virtually all the other Albanian terri
tory to the north in the face of the
Austrian advance southwark.
The Itaian Chamber of Deputies, by
a vote of 2S1 to 25, upheld the min
istry of Premier Salandra, after the
premier had energetically replied to
demands by Socialist groups for an
investigation into the conduct of the
war