The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-26
Official Statements From Both
Sides Declare Nothing Like
Struggle Now Taking Place
There Has Been Seen In War
LOSSES OF CROWN PRINCE
ARE REPORTED FRIGHTFUL
Teutons Hurl Masses Of Men
Against the French Positions
Only To Be Thrown Back But
Weight Gains Ground At Last
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Associated Press by Federal wtrslsSsJ
r ONDoN, May 26.--Nothing like
l. the bombardment that ragged over
the verdun front yesterday has
ever been known, according to the Of
fetal accounts of the fighting on that
blood -soaked field The official writer's
have abandoned their well used adjec-
tives and made use of one only-"un-
precedented. ...ar
Unprecedented bombardments along
the whole of the battered line, is the
way the German and French commu-
niques both describe -the ffuv. The
French are holding sthsir ground at al
most every point, and only in one or
two giving slightly under the tremen-
dOus pressure. that the Crown Prince
is again bringing 70 bear upon Ferdun.
Tspton Dead Pied Bigh .-
One OF the scenes Of most desperate
struggling was the quarry near Hau-.
dremont. Here, where the fighting for
months has been terrific, the German
dead was piled high, as charge after
charge broke down under the fire Of the
French seventy-fve ce1timeter and ma
chine guns.
Time after time the Teutons, acting
under orders from the supreme com.
mand to take the quarry at no mater
what cost, sprang forward to the at
tack, only to be driven back.
OF the lighting near, Douaumont, the
French say, the Germans took sec
tion of one trench, after spending Law
ishly Of their lives TO win it, but every.
where else their attacks were repulsed
with tremendously heavy losses.
Another Drive Expected
Over on the opposite of the Meuse
the Germans are apparently preparing
for another assault on Hill 304, which
fanks the famous lie Mort Homme
yesterday the Teuton staff began anew
the bomhardment of this position, evi-
IDENTIFY With the intention Of paving the
way for infantry attacks, which the
French command expects will be made
today or tomorrow. .-
Slaughter Is Frightful
Returning French soldiers and Ger
man prisoners taken in this fight say
it was the bloodiest of all that have
made the quarry historic. The French
had machine guns in place and as the
Germans came on, they waited until the
foes passed out Of the zone Of the
artillery fire and then began sweeping
them with the squirting jets of bullets
from the smaller deadlier guns.
But tn" German commanders were
determined to take the ground, and
despite pll that the French could do
massed troops at the point and bat.
tered the defenders with the heavy
cannon, until the French line gave and
the advance trenches defending the
position fell into the hands of the Ger.
man infantry.
French Beat Germans Back
East Of Cumieres, too, there was des-
perate fighting, say the official state
ments of both sides. Paris declares
that much Of it, was done with the
hand grenade and that the French, in
spite of heroic resistance on the part
of the Germans, beat the Teutons back
for minor rains. a@.
West and south Of DouaumOnt say
the German dispatches, the TeutOnic
forces continued pressing the Gauls
backward toward Verdun.
"Hcre signal success was gained, -
claims Berlin. The Germans also de
clare that French counter attacks at
Cumicres, taken three days ago,
failed o." -