The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-03-07
GERMANS AGAIN
LOSE AT VERDl..I
All Attacks on French POsi!..s. MS
Are Beaten Back.
ALSO ADMIT LOSS IN I0Rna.,.t

Berlin Reports French Fire Compelled
kaisers Men to Withdraw from
Thiaville Trenches Taken February
28-Paris Reports Foes Infantry
Attacks Suffered Heavily.
Paris, Mar. 6.-Ano;.eY attempt by
the crown princes army to break
through the French line near Douau
the line held and the Germans fell
back to their own trenches under the
fire of the French artillery. Sunday
morning a German force attacked in
the woods just east of Vacerauville. a
little to the west of the line against
which the assault of the night before
was directed, but with no more sue
cess.
German Attack Repulsed.
In the contest for the possession OF
Verdun the operations have narrowed
for the time being to the short sector
about the plateau of DOuaumont The
Germans concentrated their artillery
fire Saturday on the restricted front
between the Haudromont wood and
Douaumont village. The bombardment
was very violent. After great quaint.
ties of heavy shells had been thrown.
the German infantry made it's charge
at o'clock at night. The attacking
waves at once were brought under the
barrage fire of the French guns, with
which machine guns and rife firing
cooperated, and were unable to reach
the French trenches. At the village of
Douaumont itself, where the Germans
hold the village proper and the French
are entrenched in the southern out
skirts. fighting of considerable livli-
ness lasted well into the night without
changing the situation.
The German artillery continued its
firing with some Intensity throughout
the night on the whole front east of
the Moewe and west of the river at
Lemort Homme and Cote de L'Oie.
Shift Attack, RepuIsed.
Early Sunday morning the lombard
ment increased in violence along the
whole of this front, especially on the
sector which had been the scene of
the earlier attack. But the attack
was not repeated here Instead the
Germans shifted their assaulting col
umns to the west, and sought to make
an opening through the woods east of
Vacherauville. Here again they were
completely repulsed.
German troops being brought up to
the fighting front were brought under
the fire of the French artillery to the
north of Vacherauville and near
Louvemont, northwest of Douaumont.
No infantry action is reported from
the Woevre, out the artillery of both
sides was very active about Fresnes
and east of Haudemont.
The French artillery conducted q
heavy bombardment all night and dur
ing the day of the German positions
near the Binarville road, north of La
Harazee, and at the Haute Chavau-
chez, in the Argonne
Germans Give Up Trenches.
The German official statement an
nounces the evacuation by the Ger
man troops of the trenches captured
by them in the French near the forest
of Thiaville, northeast of Badonviller
in Lorraine, on Feb. %. The evacua-
tion was ordered to avoid unneces-
sary losses under the concentrated
fire of the French artillery.
German statement
Berlin, Mar. 6.-The statement is
sued by the German war office says:
Western front: Toward evening a
lively artillery fire of the enemy de-
veloped at several points on the front
Between the Meuse and the Moselle
French artillery continues very ac-
tive, especially in the region of Dou-
aumopt, which at times was lombard.
ed with great violence. There was no
lively infantry fighting.
ITO avoid unnecessary losses, we
evacuated yesterday the trenches we
captured from the French on Feb. 2s
near the forest of ThiaviI1e, northeast
of Badonviller, before the concentrat.
ed fire of the enemy against these DO
sitions
Eastern front: In the neighborhood
of Illoukst, an attack planned by the
Russians, following some mining op-
erations against our positions, could
not be carried out. Advances by re
connoitering parties of the enemy at
other points were repulsed.
Balkan front: There is nothing to
report"