Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-03-01
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FIinch Equally Emphatic In Asserting They
Have Checked Attacks.

around Verdun apparently has
nos turned in favor Of either side.
While the Germans claim further {
advances, the French are equally
emphatic i'll their q sersions that
thy checked the attacks of the
masses # Gs,m: IL infantry sent
AGAR ss them
Fort EcuarmoEs has fallen to
she Germans, bus 1t is reported to
be in ruins. Aronl d this position
t:e most dosperate fighting Of the
battle has been going on since
Friday. Here French c.. unter-
attacks were delivered with such
crushing forcs that tome of the
Gssmsn desachments were driven
back and one regiment is almoss
snciro.ed. To she west of this
fort, liz hand TO hand encounter,
she French Il. We ejsctsd the Ger.
mans from a sma rsdoubt which
they had csptur d.
Throughout tho entire sector of
Vefdun, except OF the western
baLk of the Meuse River, where
The German b. mbardment haf
slackened somewhst, the artillery
dusls are still of vast Prop rtions.
To she southeast, the French at
frssnes, in the Woevre region.
nave put down two German at
sacks against that t-wu, bat the
Grmaus have iaaugurated an i'm
portsht movement iu she Cham
p.gns district, where by a sur
pfise attack they succeeded in en-.
ssring French advanced positions
Of supporting trench. Yer front
Of nearly mile. capturing more
ehan thousand men.
N -twithstsnding the fresh 1e
serves the French have thrown in
TO the fray at Fora Doua mont,
the German was ofice declares
that t! cir lines toward Bras and
VschsrauviiIe. 1t ls claimed that
tho Germs us have entire y exp II
I'd the French from the Meuse
peninsula, southwa'd from Sam
ognenx aud weat of Vach. rauvllle
On the Russian front around
Frisdrichstsds AID Il!oukss there
hs.a been heavy artillery, machine
eun rife firing. In Gallcia thu
Russisns rapulssd an attempt by
the Aussro Hungariaus to osp.ure
trenches on the middle osripa
raveE.
The Aus!risns. secording to VI
emma, havs pat down with sal gui
mary lotses an Italian attack
aga nss pcs tiols eli bosh sides If
Monte San M csla and east Of
Azzo, and also 'est:oyed all Isal
ian trench Gu the Gorizia bridge
head
The Ru: SLAMS are still operating
sEccessfully agai ct the 1urks wb
fed from Erzstum and the Osso
man forces in til. Persian battle
z-ne. Farther eouth, i'll Mes po.
sania, b}mbsrdment by the
Bsitish of Turkish camp on the
left bank of tha Ttg.is river le-
eulted in heavy casualties to the
Turks.
Farther details Of tha fighting
between thu British and triE es-
men officered by tns Turks i'll
wssteEn Egypt, show that the
leader Of the tribesme,>, Nuri Bsy,
a brother Of tie Turkish war min.
lister was killed aud his principa
subordiL ate woundsd and that the
tr4besmen left largs numbers ot
dead aud wounded on the field 81
their main force fed.
The Italian hospital ship Mare
ohiaro has been snnk in the Adri
attic Sea off the coast o. Albania
It is believed the vessel struck al
Austrian mine. While the exten,
Of the casualties has not become
known it is reported that they
we're numerous.
The German Ambassador al
Washington has officially inform
ed Secretary Lansing that the as.
surances given IL the Lasitas !. is
case with respect to submarine
warfare have rot been modified b,
the recent Ges man memorandum
respecting that governments in
tentlon to treat armed merchants
men ss warships beginning Marot
lot.
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