FORT DOUAUMONT WON AND LOST THREE TIMES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2708, 1 March 1916, Page 5

FORT DOUAUMONT WON AND LOST THREE TIMES

GERMAN REGIMENT SURROUNDED

ENEMY GAINS ONLY 4 MILES

ATTACK ON TREBIZOND

REPORTED TO BE IMMINENT

SUBMARINE MENACE

GERMANS' : NEW PIRACY BEGINS

The ,Ver<Jiin battle has .perceptibly slackened, leaving the French line intact and the-enemy short of the object he set out to attain. The opinion seems to be general that the assault upon the Allied line ! ' will presently be resumed at Verdun or elsewhere. One correspondent expresses the opinion that the Champagne may witness the enemy's next effort. In this area the Germans have captured some advanced French positions. Vividly realistic descriptions are given of the battle and of the horrors'the conflict involved. A passage in a report^by Sir Douglas Haig, speaking of an action south-east of Albert, implies that the British troops have taken over an additional thirty miles and more of front, but there is no explicit announcement of such an extension. A stir of action is reported in Mesopotamia, and further particulars are given of the decisive defeat inflicted in Egypt upon an enemy force led by Turks. Threats are ibeing ■ issued by Germany of a new submarine campaign, ostensibly directed against armed merchantmen, and there are reports, not very explicit in terms, of renewed trouble between Germany and America over the • submarine question.