The Elbert County tribune., 1916-03-10
AS LOST WHEN
SHIP GOES DOWN
BATTlEFiEIDS COVERED WITH
BODIES OF MEN SLAIN IN
DESPERATE CHARGES
$4,000 DEAD
KAISER SENDS 25o,ooo MORE MEN
TO AID CROWN PRINCE IN
EFFORT TO TAKE CITY.

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Western N SewspapersUn nlon News Service
Rome. - Twenty German dread
naughts have left Kiel, according to
information received here.
London.-Driying hard against the
French line northwest and southeast
of verdun, the Germans have been
enabled to make additional gains to-
ward Verdun, but with extremely
heavy casualties, according to Paris.
Hill No. 265 to the southeast and a
portion of Corbeaux wood. directly
south of Forges, have been occupied
by the Germans through strong infan-
try attacks that were preceded by ex-
l,tremely heavy b0mbardnents. The
town of Fresnes, in the Woevre, also
has been captured The German at
tack was over the entire front west
of the Meuse, extending from Bethin-
court to the river, but except in the
Corbeaux wood and at hill No. 265,
the French set back the attackers at
all points. Thus the French still oc-
cupy the important strategic position
on the heights of the Cote de L'Oie,
for the possession of which numerous
sanguinary engagements have been
fought
London, March IA Lloyds' dis
patch from Santos says that 33S pas
sengers. and 107 members. of the crew
on the Principe de Astdrias are be-
! lieyed lost. The steamer was wrecked
tremity of the island of that name,
near the entrance to Santos bay.
London. = The British steamship
Masunda has been sunk. All the
members of the crew were saved
Lloyd's reports that the British
steamer Rothesay has been sunk.
Her crew was saved. The Rothesay
was a vessel of 2,007 tons. Her home
| pert was Cardiff.
German forces have captured the
village of Forges, nine miles north
west of. Verdun. Efforts to advance
from this point were blocked by
French counter attacks.
London. - Twelve persons were
killed and thirty-three injured in IA
raid by zeppelins over the northeast
coast of England
4 Paris, March 7.-Fighting OF great
i violence continues at rouaumont in
the Verdun region, the war office an
nounced Sunday afternoon. The Ger
mans made heavy attack against
the French front along the line from
the Haudremont wood to Douaumont
fort This assault, the statement
says, was repulsed Reports from
semi-official sources estimate that
$4,000 German corpses are lying be-
fore the French trenches The Ger
man war office asserts that there has
been no further infantry fighting of
Importance at Verdun, but declares
that the French artillery is keeping
up heavy fire. especially near Dou.
aumont. Evacuation of trenches cap
tured from the French near the forest
of Thionville in Lorraine is admitted
by the Germans.
/, The only progress made by the Ger
/, mans was during the first two days
of the second attack.
: Reinforcements brought up by the
, Germans since the inauguration of the
) second phase of the battle on Wednes-
, day are estimated here ut 250. 900 men.
raising. the totcl forces utilized by
the assailants to more than half a
million.
Estimates of losses show wide
...-,, ma a
the size of the reserves brought up
cause French observers to make the
deduction that the Germans have paid
: a very heavy price for the six square
miles of ground they have gained.
In front of the village of Vaux
alone. 1000 German corpses were
counted after the eighth unsuccessful
attack. This part of the battle,
: though overshadowed by the fight for
Douaumont, is regarded in Paris as a
: serious check for the attackers.
London.-The fall of Bagdad is
l considered imminent. according to an
! Athens dispatch to Reuters 1ele-
! gram Company.
Advices from diplomatic source in
Constantinople. adds the dispatch. are
r that an attempt has been made to as
/ sassinate Enver Pasha, the war min
lister, who was wounded.
Tong Member, n, Victim In War.