Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-29
|. GERMANS CLAIM
FRESH ADVANCES
AROUND VERDUN
French Report That Attacks
of Infantry Have Been
Checked.
FORT DOUAUMONT IN HANDS
OF TEUTONS. BUT IN RUINS
Around This Position Most Des-
perate Fighting of Battle
Is in Progress.
FIERCE ARTILLERY DUELs
kaiser's Armies Inauguratc lmpor-
tant Movement in Cham
payne District.
FORT D0UAUMONT IN HANDS
OF TEUT0NS. BUT IN RUINS
FIERCE ARTILLERY DUELs
l[aisers Armies Inaugurate lmpor-
tant Movement in Cham.
payne District.

The tide Of battle around Vcrdun
apparently has no, turned in favor
OF either side. While the Germans
claim further advances, the French are
equally emphatic in their assertion that
they checked the attacks OF the masses
Of the German infantry sent against
them.
Fort Douaumont has fallen to the
Germans. but il is reported to be In
ruins. Around this position the most
desperate lighting OF the battle has
been going on since Friday. Here
French countcrattacks were delivered
with such crushing force that some of
the German detachmentS were driven
back. and one regiment is almost en-
.circle,l. To the west Of this fort. in u
hand hand encounter. the French
have elected the Germans from n small
rcdoubt which they had captured
Throughout the entire sector OF Yer
dun. except on the western bank OF
the Mouse River where the German
hombardment has slackcned somewhat
the artillery ducls arc still of vast
proportions. To the southeast tho
French at Fresnes. in the Wocyre re-
gion. have put down two German at
tacks against that town. but tho Ger
mans have nauEuratcd an important
movement In tho Champagne district.
where by 81 surprise attack they sue
cccded in entering French advanced
positions OF II supporting trench over
~ front OF nearly mile. capturing
more than 1000 men.
ETFORTS or RESERVES
REPORTED USELESS
notwithstanding the fresh reserves
tho French have thrown into the fraS.
ut Fort DouuuInont. the German Was.
Office declares that their efforts have
been fruitlcs. aud that the t;crmnna
have advanced their lines towards Bras
and Nacherauvillc. It also is claimed
that the Germans have entirely OK.
PEELED the French from the Mouse Pen
inSula. southwark from SamoSncuX and
! west OF Nachcrauvillc.
On tho EuSsian front. around Fried
richstadt and lllouIist there has been
heavy artillery, machine gun and rifle
fIrc In Galicia. the Russians rcpuiscd
an attempt by the Austro- Iiungarians
10 capture trenches on the middle
Stripa River.
The Au*trians. according TO Vienna
have put down Will, sanguinary losses
m Italian attack aSain.t positions on
both sides of NTou;r san Michele and
east OF .\zEo and also DESTROYED an
Italian trench on the Goriaia bridge
head.
The Russians ;Lre still operating sue
ccssfully against the Turks who lied
from ErEcrum and the Ottoman forces
III the Persian battle zone Farther
south IN Mcsopotamia, a bonn ba rclncnt
by the British OF Turkish camp on
tn" left bank Of the Tigris River re-
suited III heavy casualties to the Turks
FURTHER details of the lighting be-
tween the British and tribcsmen Of
hcered by Turks in Western Egypt
show that the leader of the tribesmen
Nur Bey. brother of the Turkish
war Minister, was killed and his prin-
cipal subordinate wounded, and that
the tribesmen left large numbers of
dead and wounded on the field as their
main force fed.