Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-03-04
Under Eyes of Kaiser, the Grown Prince Hurls For
 ward Great Phalanx.
TEUTONS INSIDE
 RING VERDUN FORTS
Frt nch Reports Contradict Claims of Berlin, Announcing That Counter Attacks Have Enabled JOiire's
 Men to Regain Positions.

ILOHuOH, hdi Cll o.--fA hcl mall phalanX, hurled forward by the crown prince, under the eyes of the kaiser, who has returned to the battle front, has driven in the French front north of Verdun.
 It has taken the village of Douau- mont by storm. and has relieved the force imprisoned within the ruined battlements of Fort Douaumont, ac- cording to today's official statement from Berlin.
 Behind this victory is one of the most romantic and tragic stories of the war For more than three days a group of Brandenburg infantry was imprisoned within the wrecked fort, which they had taken in a furious charge Only through small com munication trench could food and supplies be sent to them. It was feared that their doom was sealed.
 Five times their comrades threw their lives into the scales in an effort to relieve the heroic troops and five times were they driven back, leaving hundreds of dead carpeting the heights which rise to Douaumont.
 The sixth attack, that reported to- day, not only succeeded in relieving the beleaguered garrison, but the Germans, sweeping beyond, have driv- en their advance almost mile to the heart of Verdun and have thrown in a large group behind the chain of fortreses, the Mouse heights, which they are bombarding from the east.
 French Claim to Regain Ground.
 rUt,. UN,,o,oh oro AUhtiuU a valiant. ly in the outskirts of Douaumont vil- lage, to halt this drive, as they dld that of last week. Their masked massed 75s have inflicted losses on the Germans which the French de- scribe as "cruel." The lighting, says the statement issued in Paris at mid night, is still "hot."
 we hold the heart of the knoll on the northern slope of which the vil- lage of Douaumont Is located" 1t says. Spirited counter attacks launched by us have enabled us to regain ground on the immediate outskirts of the village. The bombardment is main tained with great violence on both the west and east sides of the Mouse and :n the Woevre. Our artillery has exc . cuted concentrated fires in the ene- my's points of assembly, notably near Beaumont where column on the march was dispersed"
 The great battle of Verdun is now in it's second phase. This develop ment was reached when the Germans, after day of inaction, opened ter rife fire along the entire front.
 Pepper hill and Douaumont. east of the Mouse. as well as the entire chain of forts along the heights which rise up out of the Woevre plain, was subjected to a tornado of fire.
 .'Dead mans" hill and the forts west of the Mouse also were swept by steel. .ho bombardment has continued for Az hours. The village of Douaunont changed hands three times before the Germans finally established them selves, according to dispatches rom the front.
 The German official statement to- day contains this significant an nouncement: . west and south of the village or Douaumont, as we'll as of the armored fort. to more favorable positions.
 This indicates that the Germans have smashed forward to point be- hind the most northerly fortress on the heights of the Mouse, and not on- ly are in position to take these un- der fire from the rear. but are also fighting between the inner rings or the Verdun defenses.
 Berlin reports today that l.ovo ,nora nrisoners have been taken in inc latest blow at verdun. The French have lost some of their heavy guns, hut the number is not given.
 On the entire front of Verdun, where the French had been driven hack to their fortress line on the heights of the Mouse. an artillery bombardment of unprecedented pro- ,o,.tions is raging night and day. The wall of flame and metal transcends