HOT FIGHTING NEAR DOUAUMONT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 5

HOT FIGHTING NEAR DOUAUMONT

AERIAL COMBATS

FIFTEEN GERMAN AIRMEN PUT TO FLIGHT

CAMPAIGN' 1 EAST AFRICA

TWO MORE TOWNS CAPTURED

RUSSIANS NEAR TREBIZOND

GENERAL ALYMER FALLS BACK

Late accounts of the Battle of Verdun indicate that it has entered a, period of unexampled violence. The Germans have concentrated an enormous strength of artillery, and are attacking with masses of men on different sections of the front, chiefly north of Verdun, both east .and west of the Mouse. They have made limited headway on narrow fronts on both sides of the river, but it is stated that these gains have been won at altogether disproportionate cost. Vivid pictures are painted of the slaughter of the attackers by the French artillery and machineguns, aiid other features of the bat tie. In general, the tone of semiofficial and other comments is opti inistic. The British Army Estimates provi.de ; foi a Home and Colonial Army of four million men. Good progress is being made by the Russians in Armenia, where they are now said to be within 27 miles of Trebizond, and they are also improving their position in Western Persia. A British set-back is reported in Mesopotamia, where General Aylmer has again failed in an attempt to dislodge the Turks from their entrenched position immediately east of Kut-el-Amara. Two British torpedo craft, a destroyer and a tor-pedo-boat, hav6 'been suulc by mines off the east coast of England.