Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-03-10
Vaux Reported to Have
Been Recaptured BY Gen
eral Joffre's Forces
FORT HELD BY FRENCH
.Al!ics Continue TO Assert They Have
Made Considerable Progress to
West Of River

| Paris, March 1O.-Thc situation on
both banks of the Meuse as the result
of last nights fighting around Yer
dun is unchanged, the war office
stated this afternoon.
Dispatches from the Verdun front
today repeat the statement that the
Germans who entered the village OF
Eaux were driven cas-. and denied
the German claim that Fort de Vaux
and adjoining positions were cap
tured.
With blasting hurricanes OF she'll
fire and furious infantry fighting, the
battle for Verdun is now entering the
third and what may be the final phase.
The Germans are throwing massed
battalions against the French center
around Fort dc Vaux. They are as
sailing the French left on the West
bank of the Meuse in charge after
charge. Their big guns are opening
heavy attack on French lines south
east of Vcrdun from the direction of
Fresnes.
Military experts in Paris are unit
ed in the belief that Germany is pre-
bared to make sacrifices unequalleG
in this war, French commanders ars
without the scmblance of fear as tc
the outcome. !,
Paris, Marfh 1o-The Germans
have been repulsed between Doaau-
mont and the village OF NauX after
several heavy attacks accompanied
by intense artillery fire and violent
infantry assaults, according to the
French official statement whic!! says
the attackers were completely de-
feated after having penetrated tho
village of Vaux. Further progress
for the French in the Corbeaux wood
also is reported.
Berlin. March 10-The village and
armored fort of FauX, northeast Of
Verdun, has been captured by the
Germans, the War Office announces.
The announcement says that in at-
dition, numerous fortified positions
were captured The assault was made
in the night by Pbsen reserve regi-
ments.
The official French report although
admitting the Germans temporarily
penetrated the Village of VauX, does
not mention the fortress. Unofficial
advices some time ago said the fort
had beer demolished by German ar
tillcry. 1t is about two miles south
east Of Douaumont, where the Ger
mans gained their first important sue
cess by capturing that fort. Vcrdun
lies FIVE miles west OF the fort Of
Vaux
Military observers express the be-
lief that the Germans originally in
tended frontal attack on Verdun
two flank attacks, one in the Woevre
not meant to be pushed home, and
the other on the west bank Of the
Meusc which might develop into the
main attack. Desiring, however, to
Justify a premature announcement OF
the capture of Douaumont, the Grown
Prince kept 100000 men on the right
| bank Of the river. against the ad-
;.ice of his generals, who insisted that
they could be better employed on the
other bank. Now that the Germani
have begun the flank attack, the
French critics say, it is too late bJ
10 days.
Artillery on both sides are living
up to the reputation already estab'
lished for the Battle of Verdun a:
the greatest artillery duel of th'
war. Many sectors Of the Frencf
trent on Sunday and Monday last re
ccived an average of 100 900 SHE'LL
in II hours. Whole woods were re
duced to kindling material.
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