The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-07
ASSAULTS Of
CROWN PRINCE
ARE HELD BACK
FRENCH CENTER IN DOUAU-
MONT SECTOR MAKES FIRM
FIRM STAND-READY FOR
INF FANTRY ATTACK.

PARIS (via London), March GA
semi-official statement given out
here today says there were no in
fantry actions last night north of
Verdun. but that violent artillery en-
gagements continue along the left
bank of the Meuse, and intermittent
ly elsewhere. Calm prevails on the
remainder of the front.
While the French center in the
Douaumont sector apparently are still
holding firm against the desperate
assaults of the crown princes armies,
the Germans are again turning their
attention to the flanks of the French
positions around the stronghold.
Intense artillery activity in the
Woevre region was reported in the
Paris night bulletin, the firing cen
tering upon the regions of Haudo-
mont and Fresnes. Military com
mentators recently have laid stress
upon the operations in this sector,
holding that the next important drive
| by the Germans might be eXerted
there, with the object of rolling up
the French right flank.
Other indications, however, have
pointed to the possibility that the
eyes of the German headquarters
staff were upon the extreme French
| left, across the Meuse river, where
| the towering height of lie Mort
| Homme commands the lesser EN-
, inences nearby and the surrounding
plains. The heavy artillery of the
Teptons is also pounding the defenses
| in this sector
The French are ready for an infan-
| try attack there. but it is doubted in
Paris if the Germans will attempt
the storming of the commanding po-
sition, to reach which their troops
would have to deploy over q mile
wide plain under a destrctive cross
| fire.
Meanwhile the testing OF the
! French strength by furious assaults
on the main defenses is continuing
Illustrative of this was yesterdays at
tack ON the left of the Douaumont
sector, near the Cote du Poivre.
There the French lines also held
firm, according to Paris, while in the
immediate front of Douaumont the
German assaults were temporarily
suspended, the heavy French artillery
continuing its answer to the rain of
giant shells which the Teuton's 42's
and similar big pieces were pouring
upon the defensive trenches. Cor
respondents quote French military
men as declaring that the German
achievements so far in the great bat
tie for Verdun have resulted merely
in restoring the lines to the positions
they occupied at the beginning of
1914. before the French, in a series
Of local attacks, began expanding the
defensive area about the fortress
Verdun itself is under German ar
tillery fire, but according to reports
little damage has been done.
Indications that the Germans may
be planning another offensive move
ment on the western front are con-
tanned in reports from Dutch sources
that important troop movements are
going on behind the front in Bel
GUM. Forty thousand German cav
alrymen are said to be on their way
to the battle line near Ypres, in which
sector the famous German attempt to
break through and reach Calais oc-
Cured in April, 1915.
From the French front to Asia
-
importance in military way so far
as the official bulletins show. In Ar
menia the Russians report continuing
their pursuit Of the defeated Turks
and the drive southwark toward the
Tigris and far off Bagdad.