Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1916-03-06
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dun continues, but Paris has mention
ed that the artillery bombardment
is probably III preparation for a new
offensive.
Berlin has failed to confirm the
Amsterdam report that the Germans
have captured Fort Devaux, or that
they are concentrating at Argenne
for 4 new drive.
Paris reports that the attack at
Frcsnes has been repulsed, discredit
ing the German report that the city
Lad been captured.
Rotterdam reported that the kai-
ser left Verdun Tuesday. Geneva
said that several of the commanders
OF the German army were opposed
to a continuation of the offensive
at Verdun.
An unconfirmed rumor says the
Duke Of Wurtemburg has supplant-
cd the crown prince.
Thousands of wounded are passing
thru Paris.
1t is reported that 100 hospital
trains have reached AK la Chapelle.
LONDON, Mar. "A seaplane
raided the southeast coast of Eng
land last night, dropping four explo-
sives.
\ baby who was horribly mangled
died from the effects.
Several houses were wrecked. The
plane flew low, owing to the fog.
LONDON, Mar. 2.-Conscription
went into effect today. Large posters
everywher announce that henceforth
bachelors and widowers will be draft
ed as needed. The first nine groups
will be called by March IS.
The married Derby volunteers be-
tween the ages of 10 and 81 will be
called out soon.
BUCHAREST, Mar. 2-Carman
Silva, Dowager Queen of Rumania, is
critically i'll with bronchitis.
Six physicians have abandoned hope
for her recovery.
LONDON, Mar. 2.-On the first
day of the new German submarine
campaign, the Teutons sank one Rus
sian steamer and four British fish
ing smacks.
Eighteen Russian sailors were lost
and eleven were rescued.
LISBON, Mar. 2.-There is a Ger
man exodus from here and all shops
owned by Germans have been closed
1t is rumored that an answer 20
the German demand for the release
q ships held by the Portuguese gov
comment was dispatched to Berlin last
night and that it contained flat re-
fusal
A German declaration of war is ex-
pected hourly.
The Portuguese consuls in Germany
have warned their countrymen to pre-
pare to depart.
BERLIN, Mar Sit is officially
admitted that the British have made
gains around Ypres. The extent of
the advances are not given.
London says the gains We're eight
hundred yards of German trenches.
There is close fighting around the
Labassc canal.
BERLIN, Mar. 3.-The Germans
have captured the village of Doua-
wmont, capturing thousand prison
ers.
The Teutons are now advancing
westward and southwestward.
German aviators bombed Verdun
last night.
PARIS, Mar at is officially adj
mitted that the Germans have pene-
trated Douaumont after cruel losses.
The struggle for the possession Of
the village is continuing. The French
have repulsed the German attacks
to the east of the village of Vaux.
The German dead are strewn on
the fields, hills and in the woods near
Verdun until from distance the
ground seems to be covered with a
grey-green growth.
, A renewal of the Verdun often
sive has convinced the officials that
the Germans mean the real thing
Witnesses agree that the fighting
around Verdun is the heaviest in the
war.
The Germans used many times the
number of shells the French used il
September at Champagne.
The flower of the German army is
participating. Despite the terrible
losses the kaiser must strike with his
maximum strength or his prestige
and morale will suffer.
DANGERS Ole DRAET.