The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-03-01
war SUMMARY
PROGRESS OF CONDITIONS AS
COMPILED BY THE ASSO-
GATED PRESS.

New York, March Special: The
tide of battle around Verdun appar-
emily has not turned in favor of
either side. While the Germans
claim further advances, the French
are equally emphatic in the assertion
thai they checked the attacks of the
masses of German infantry sent
against them.
Fort Douaumont has fallen to the
Germans, but it is reported to be in
ruins. Around this position the most
desperate fighting of the battle has
been going on since Friday. Here
French counter attacks were deliv-
cred with such crushing force that
some of the German detachments
were driven back, and n regiment
is almost encircled. To the west of
this fort, in a hand to hand encoun-
ter, the French have elected the Ger
mans from a small redoubt which
they have captured.
Throughout the entire sector OF
Verdun, except on the western bank
of the Mouse river, where the German
bo~mbardment has slackened some
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vast proportions. To the southeast,
the French as Fresnes, in the Woevre
region, have put down two German
attacks against that town, but the
Germans have inaugurated an impor-
tant movement in the Champagne
district, where, by a surprise attack,
they succeeded in entering French
advanced positions of a supporting
trench over a front of nearly a mile,
capturing more than 1000 men.
Notwithstanding the fresh reserves
the French have thrown into the af-
fray at Fort Douaumont, the German
war office declares hat their efforts
have been fruitless and that the Ger
mans have advanced their lines to-
ward Bras and Va~cherauville. 1t also
is claimed that the Germans have en-
tirely expelled the French from the
Mouse peninsula, southwark from Sa-
mogneux, and west of Vacherauville.
On the Russian front around Fried
richstadt and Iloukst, there have
been heavy artillery, machine gun
and rifle firing. In Galicias the Rus
slams repulsed an attempt by the Aus
TRANS to capture the trenches on the
middle Stripa river.
The Austrians, according to Wen
ma, have put down with sanguinary
losses an Italian attack against po-
sitions on both sides of the Monte
SAINT Michele and east of Azzo. and
also destroyed an Italian trench on
the Gorilla bridgehead.
The Russians are still operating
successfully against the Turks, who
fled from ErZerum and the Ottoman
forces in the Persia battle zone.
Farther south in Mesopotamia a bonn
bardment by the British of a Turkish
camp on the left bank of the Tigris
river resulted in heavy casualties to
the Turks.
Further details of the fighting be
tween the British and tribesmen of
ficered by Turks in western Egyp'
show that the leader of the tribes.
men, Nuri Bey, a brother of the
Turkish war minister. was killed anc
his principal subordinate wounded
and the tribesmen left large numbers
of dead and wounded on the field a:
their main force fled.
The Italian hospital ship Mare.
chiaro has been sunk in the Adriatic
off the coast OF Albania. 1t is be
lieved the vessel struck an Austrian
mine. While the extent of the cas-
ualties has not become known, it /:
reported they were numerous.