New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-07
csrman Artillery Massed
in Every Available
Hollow and Grove.
CANNON BELCHlNG
NIAGARA OF FIRE
.,... and Heavier Armament
Iced than That Which
Smashed Polish Forts.

49,. March . via Berlin 70 Lon
Mach IA ring Of artillery
=. was never before assembled IN
.,s,e IS gripping Verdun from the
ord the east Every hollow,
.,5 and thicket within range Of inc
and modern artillery IL ei-
w." ~. a. UNPRECEDENTED ranges con
-. i. quota Of guns OF all sizes
49, me s-inch field piece up TO the
~, w. 81 Germsny's giant siege how
iizsrs. $40. ,or,,i,-
- - inspect the German positions
Vsrdun has never during the
So. VAR seen as great a COLLECTION
,.,,illery. It far exceeds that with
.;,h a breach was hammered IN the
80, lines at Gorliee and the Duna-
n =. piv.r. in Galicia, last May. and the
- ~. Gun parks concentrated at Ant
I'VE I'D Novo Georgievsk were petty
'''r The long rows OF guns
49, IN. behind another offer ade-
". ... exclamation for the rapidly with
'. ",.b the strong French lines were
o'nOs ane nosition given over to ar'li-
IN ~ r,;ddle calibre. hidden IN an
l'Ty .. naralleling one front OF tne
unduls'lon Pa.o,rrespondent found bat
ioIses' arrsnged in a continuous ilhe;
i'Iie' Sa a.,l more than a hundred
WIN Sstreen the batteries. Behinu
laIos IN in suitable places OF sneI-
ue'e, are Inc big guns, up TO the veiy
tN snd from the crest OF MN
Ns;sSi' seor far 10 the front, heid
ses. ss whose guns had been puSnea
nVel'11s .Imost into the infantry line.
Ikea Niagara OF Fire.
II ,orv hundred guns the Ger
~" - assembled around Neraun
hsas h told. but il is certain thaV
uanOs ., are with which the GARNER az,
ine -" ers accompanied, and which VIII
az a. Tho next series Of assaults can
' 80 as the work Of man, WIN
% IAen'u "a other stupendous phe-
rcrens OF nature 49, ,aroe Tina
,m,'omstie feature Of the onensive
go. VerJun is the array OF csP.,Ne
r,Toons from which the worx Oh ','
,,,ll,rv in part Is observed anu "
.,e,,5 since the balloons usuai'y
.sir ittermittently aloft. but the coi
,.,,opaent at times counted a. may
,,ionrfeen visible at once from SIN
:, ssvtoint A long row Of gas psgs
io.,ing ike giant sausages outlined
,.sybl,. tho German tentscle AROUND
,s,fo,.rsss German seroplanes were
y, ,.sn in large numbers. Only once
S1 ,hs French anti-sirship guns seem
= o,y ANY attention to the German
serial scouts.
Many Places in Ruins.
II. nlsees mentioned in the recent
sseisl reports -Douaumont, Beaumont
Tronezey and Etsin, for example are
,e,sblv in ruins. looking as II they hau
Men visited BIZ an earthquake OF gre.
n,gni,ude. Douaumont, the VILLAGE
ron which the last of the trenchmeh
vgs elected barely twenty-four hours
,,lisr' seemed a particularly peace
iul hsap Of stone. The French appsI
,,,lr we're making no attempt to regain
h. not shot was observed to tail IN
Il. town while the correspondent was W,
N The vicinity, and almost as NIUE a., a.,
prion was being devoted by M
French to Fort Douaumont, only PHI
hr Of black smoke now and then mari u,s.
M the bursting Of occasional 49,,
dropped By the French on inc su'''"''
q ne bald hill. -, s-or,
Judging from the snoke-clouds from i'n,
bvrtinr shells. the German attention
,s being largely devoted TO t anotns ,r
he heishborhood Of Douaumont nov S
,nt then explosions from French an9
German shells in the region soutn o
beaumont Hill. forming the glse's ..
he inner fortress girdle, sweiied mo
continuous clamor a. one sluo ID
,ns,her attempted TO gain some gu