The Elbert County tribune., 1916-03-03
MASSED GUNS
CUT DOWN LINES
KAISER HURLs 100000 MEN ON
FRENCH DEATH TRAPS TO
STORM vERDUN-
CANNON FIRE TERRIFIC
GERMAN SUBMARINE POLICY EF-
FEcTiVE AT MIDNIGHT ON
FEF. 20.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Paris, March 1.-The bombardment
to the north of Verdun is continuing
with great intensity. More than 750,-
900 Germans are now believed to be
engaged in the battle. and the French
guns are moving them down by thou
sands as they charge the entrenched
positions. East of the Meuse there
was a resumption of violent local at
tacks. Near the village of Douaumont
the fighting came to a hand-to-hand
encounter and the Germans were re-
pulsed by French troops
After intense artillery fire, German
forces captured the village of Man
heulles, but counter attack brought
the French to the western boundary
of this location. They now hold Man
heulles under their fire.
In Lorraine the Germans succeeded
in occupying small sections of French
trenches, but they were very shortly
driven from these positions.
Berlin reports that 16.755 men and
22S officers have been captured so
far in the Verdun fighting
The German submarine policy went
into effect at midnight on Feb. 30.
London.-British casualties in all
theaters of the war, as published dur
ing the month of February, showed
a total of 739 officers and 17,S47 men
Paris, Feb. 29.-The tide of battle
around Verdun apparently has not
turned in favor of either side. While
the Germans claim further advances,
the French are equally emphatic in
their assertion that th0y checked the
attacks of the masses of German in
fantry sent against them. Fort Dou-
aumont has fallen to the Germans,
but it is reported to be ruins. Around
this position the most desperate
fighting of the battle has been going
on since Friday. Here French coun-
ter attacks were delivered with such
crushing force that some of the Ger
man detachments were driven back,
and one regiment is almost encircled.
To the west of this fort. in handto-
hand encounter, the French have
elected the Germans from a small re-
doubt which they had captured
Throughout the entire sector of
of the Meuse river, where the Ger
man bombardment has slackened
somewhat, the artillery duels are
still of vast proportions. To the
southeast the French at Fresnes. in
the Woevre region, have put down
two German attacks against that
town, but the Germans have inaugu-
rated an important movement in the
Champagne district where by sur
prise attack they succeeded in enter
ing French advance positions of a
supporting trench over a front of
nearly mile. capturing more than
thousand men.
Notwithstanding the fresh reserves
the French have thrown into the af-
fray at Fort Douaumont, the German
war office declares that their efforts
have been fruitless and that the Ger
mans have advanced their lines to-
ward Bras and Vacherauville. It
also is claimed that the Germans
have entirely expelled the French
from the Meuso peninsula,
Paris military critics predict that
few of the original attacking force,
100000 Germans, will be left after the
first fighting" and assert that all
this sacrifice by the Kaiser is for an
empty shell as the French have ''un-
classed" Verdun and sent all provi-
sions and arms to the rear.
On the Russian front around Fried
richstadt and Illoukst there have
been heavy artillery, machine gun and
rifle firing. In Galicia the Russians
repulsed an attempt by the Austrians
to capture trenches.
Rome.-The report that Durazzo.
Albanian port on the Adriatic sea, had
been evacuated by the Italian troops,
stationed there, is confirmed
Dover.-The steamship Maloja, a
12,431-ton vessel belonging to the Pc
ninsular and Oriental line, struck a
mine, and sank within ha,fhour
two miles off Dover. The Times es-
Inmates the Maloja dead at 147.
The steamship Empress of Fort
William, trying to save the drowning
victims. struck another mine and also
was sunk
Jerk From Horse Kills Farmer.