New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14
GERMANS WREST
MORE TRENCHES
FROM BRITISH
But London Says Counter
Attack Routs Foe at
MaricOurt.
FRENCH PRESS GAIN
WEST OF HILL 3O4
Repel German Assaults at Dou-
aumont - AeroS Arc
Again Active.

London. May lS.-The Germans have
obtained fresh successes against the
p-;,,sb to-day. Following their gains
a. Hulluch yesterday the new assaults
v,rc launched further TO the cast IN
,bc ncichborhood Of Maricourt.
Three times German troops swept
forward 10 the British trenches. Only
once did they succeed in reaching them.
4 feothold was gained for a short
time in one. but a counter attack quick
~ recovered it. Heavy artillery &C
lions continue about st. ElOi.
Desperate lighting is proceeding be
fore Vcrdun, both the Germans and
ne French launching thrusts here and
there against the opposing lines.
Claims TO any pronounced advantage
in this lighting are put forth by nei-
her Paris nor Berlin. each side de-
elsrinc that attacks by the other have
been repulsed
The principal efforts Of the Germans
appear 10 have been exerted near Fort
Douaumont, where successive assaults
we're directed al the French defences.
All we're repulsed, Paris declares.
On their own account, the French
claim 10 have made some progress IN
the vicinity Of Hill 2s7. northwest Of
Verdun. while Berlin asserts that
French attack southwest of Dead Man
Hill in this region was repulsed and
that assaults on the German lines IN
the Avocourt and Malancourt woods,
10 the southwest. we're fruitless.
The British Official communication
issued tonight reads:
After a heavy bombsrdment last
night against our trenches between the
River Somme and Msricourt, the en-
emv made three attacks, one Of which
succeeded in getting into our trenches,
but was at once driven out. Some dead
Germans were observed on our wire
this morning, and one prisoner was
taken We lost one prisoner.
ION the rest of the front there have
been artillery and trench mortar &C
tons al various points, the heaviest FIR
ing taking place about Hebuterne, Sou
chez, Csrency, the Hohenzollern sector
and the area about St. Eloi."
"On the left bank Of the Meuse,"
says the Paris statement, che bonn
bardment diminished in intensity IN
the course Of the day. We repulsed
an attack against our positions TO the
west Of Hill 3O4 On the slope north
east Of lie Mort Homme an attempt at
a sudden attack by the enemy com
pletely failed.
Last night one Of our squsdrons.
composed Of ten aeroplanes, dropped
forty-three shells on the railway sta
tions at Nantillois and Brieulles and
on bivouacs in the regions Of Montfau-
con and Romsgne. The same night
one Of our aeroplsnes dropped eleven
shells on the dirigibles' hangar at
Metz-Frascati."
An earlier report said;
"O7 the left bank of the Meuse the
artillery combat continued without in
-erruDtion i'm the sectors of the woods
of Avocourt and Hill 304. During the
night we realized further progress IN
the vicinity Of Hill 287.
"On the night bank the Germans re-
neved Yesterday their attacks on our
trenches southeast Of Fort Douaumont.
I'm spite Of the violence of the bonn
bardmcut which preceded the enemy
assaults. our line did not waver at any
point All attacks were repulsed, with
serious losses for the enemy. Other
attempts during the night upon our
positions north Of Thieumont Farm
we're likewise arrested by our curtain
Of fire and machine-guns.
at Eparges a strong German recon
NOTHING party, which, after a bonn
bardmcnt. attempted TO reach our lines,
was unable 10 debouch."
Berlin's statement follows:
Between the ArConne and the Meuse
here have been lively hand grenade
engagements at isolated points. Enemy
attempts 20 gain terrain in the Avo-
court and Malancourt woods were frus-
rated An enemy attack during the
night southwest of Dead Man Hill
was stopped by the fire Of the Ger
man infantry.
"The French suffered considerable
losses on the cast bank Of the Meuse
il a Ruthless attack on the quarry
west Of the Ablain wood"