The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-03
Massed Artillery At Many Points
Covers Advances Of Teutonic
2 Forces Around verdun, Which
Are RepuIsed Easily BY French
LOSSES OF CROWN PRINCE
ARE SAID TO BE ENORMOUS
From WoeTe District and Other
Points Along BattIeIine Come
Reports ofMore Futile Attempts
Of Kaiser To Destroy Enemy

(Associated Pross By Federal wirslsss)
~ ARIS, M9rc 3-lndifferent TO the
enormous losses already suffered,
tFO the German commanders in front
Of 'Verdun are beginning what appears
to be second attempt to break
through the French lines. Already the
effort has cost the Kaiser something
like 10000 men in killed. wounded
and missing, or about one.third of the
effective men he had at that point.
Yet last night 8 official French state
ment reports a resumption Of the ter
rife lighting north of Verdun. Artil-
lery fnassed at mapy points is being
used as before to clear the way for
the infantry, and the great German
guns are pouring in heavy FIRE Of
high,explos've shells in the hope Of
blasting their way through the Freuch
lines, ( l,taE. @..E ,wa
Attaeks Repulses WITH !
The infantry l. following this bonn
bardment up wherever possible, despite
the fact that the French machine guns
are accounting for one in every ten Of
the masses of men hurled against the
Gallo lines. So far, continues the
statement, all Of .he attacks have been
repulsed with ease, and the losses in
hieted upon the attacking columns has
been most severe. g.. ,.E 49,.
1t is believed, added the Official ac-
count of the fighting, that the Teu.
tons are now mass.ng for second and
even 6ereer drive. Whether this is
but a feint, intended to divert atten-
ton and reinforcements from the big
offensive that seems to be developing
in the Champagne district at the same
time, is puzZling the military observ.
ers. Certain IL Is that in the Cham
pagne country the fighting is little If
any less severe than before Verdun in
the Argonne.
German Soldiers Out on
In the Argonne, the French report
that they have two thousand Teuton
soldiers, cut Off and hopelessly surround.
ed in the battered ruins of the fort at
DOuaumOnt. German attempts to re.
lieve these men so far have failed ut
terly, proving decidedly costly to the
attackers.
Dispatches from the Woeyre district
announce that another German offensive
has been projected there. Heavy artil-
lery preparations have been carried on
for some time, and the infantry attack
have followed, but both guns and in
fantry seem to lack force and vim, say
the accounts of the fighting.
The invaders have been elected from
the positions they recently captured at
Fresnes by hand t. hand fighting, leav-
ing their dead and wounded behind
them. r.t.".'..
Germans Destroy Fort Vaux
Fort Vaux has been destroyed by the
fire of the German heavy guns, but the
Teutons are not able to take advantage
of this fact owing to the constant rain
of shells poured upon the place by the
; French artillery. The French also re,
port the destruction of a battery of
German guns by their own six inch
rifles. ......
Reports indicated last night that the
German commanders are concentrating
force of 10000 men at the little town
: of Buzy, sixteen miles east of Verdun
This is believed to be the point of at,
tack selected by the Crown Prince and
his generals.