The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-25
v[RDUN WARFARE
IN FOURTH MONTH
Worst Battle of War Continues
With Germans Trying to Hold
Trench They Have Taken
French Hopeful.

Continuing their descent on the Ital-
Ian front the Austrians have made
further progress on the southern Tyrol.
The Vienna war office today announces
that the peak of the Armantra ridge
has been carried, several additional
Austrians and more than 5000 more
Italians captured.
Fighting OF the most intense charac-
ter is in ogr in the Deadman's hill
region northwest of Verdun.
Paris records h repulse Of renewed
also the capture OF several block houses
in the Ayocourt wood.
The Avocourt wood.
The German steamer Worms, 4.42Si
tons, is believed to have fallen yic-s
tim to allied submarines in the Baltic
Violent ~cannonading heard in the
Baltic, off the Swedish coast, leads
to a belief that German n Russian|
warships have been in al engagements
The British forces in the Sudan are
reported by Constantinople to rave
been completely defeated by tribes
men in Darfur.
Paris, May 23.--The battle Of Yer
dun, the longest and most bitter in
'dividual struggle Of the war, enters on
its fourth month today. The Germans
are hammering at Deadman's hill,
WIiSFG Lie IlUSL luIiOuE III plOOQy
fighting Of the three months conflict
has taken place. Ciinging desperately
to the trenches that they have wrestcd
from the French on the lower slopes Of
the hill, the Teutons LAY hurled $4,000
men, backed by 60 batteries of guns
seven-mile front from Avocourt wood
to the Meuse in a desperate effort to
seize the coveted summit.
The Germans have succeeded in
gaining a footing in the French first
line at a cost Of severe losses, but
past it will not be a difficult task for
the French to dislodge them before
they are able to follow up their advan-
tage. That the Germans must cor
niue their tremendous onslaught on
Deadman hill or abandon the idea of
taking Verdun seems obvious. This
| blood soaked summit and it's sister
eminence, Hill 304, form the key oil
the whole system Of Verdun defenses.
| The fire from their batteries tanks
the Douaumont plateau across the
river. Without the ~undisputed pos
session of this plateu military critics
agree hat no attack on Verdun has
any chance of success.
The block houses in Ayocourt wood
were abandoned by the Germans.
East of the Meuse infantry fighting
| occurred at the Haudremont quarries
! SlpIoiVo ID ny AhS w ~
! Germans attacked these positions. AND
| the statement asserts, were repulset
with heavy losses.
Austrians Withdraw.
Paris, May pa neutral diplomat
who has just returned from Albania
is quoted in a dispatch to the Matin
from Athens as saying that the Aus,
TRANS have withdrawn 5000 from AL
bahia in the last three weeks. Accor
ing to this diplomat. the Austrians
have left only small detachments tc
guard the towns they have occupied
leaving a garrison of 800 at Fiera anC
600 at Berat. The remainder of the
troops left in the country are concen-
trated at DuraZZo.
The abandonment of the Albanian
front is said to be due to the impos
sibility of bringing up supplies.
The statement say the Austrians
are withdrawing their main force.
from Albania, apparently conflicts will
recent dispatches from Athens ant
Paris, which stated that the Teuton.
were about to launch an attack in fore
against Avlona, the only town that re
mains in the possession of the Italians
May 10 the Austrians were reported Il
have assembled a fleet of $50 trans
ports at Fiume to transport troops an
supplies to Durazze.