THE GERMAN ATTACK VIA CUMIERES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2786, 2 June 1916, Page 5

THE GERMAN ATTACK VIA CUMIERES

ONSLAUGHTS REPULSED

ITALIANS GIVE GROUND

FURIOUS AUSTRIAN ■ ARTELERY BOMBARDMENT

LORD KITCHENER ATTACKED IN PARLIAMENT

The battle at Verdun still rages, the fiercest zone of the fighting being in the Cumieres, MorE Homme, and Hill 304 regions. The German attacks, delivered with fresh troops and despprate fury, have been repulsed, and the odds of the battle, on the news of the day, aro on the sido of the Frenph. On the Italian front the situation still disclose? a determined forcing-down movement by the Austrian?. The Italians have given ground aliglitly on certain sectors, and op others have held, lost, and held again, mountain positions which the enemy is trying to seize. There is an interesting story of the last two weeks' fighting on the British front, affording an insight to the general character of the German assault on the Vimy ridge. It appears that the British line was bombarded with an intensity not equalled since September last. There are no material developments from the Balkans, or,from the Mesopotamia theatre, while the Kussien theatre is heavily veiled. The British Government's conduct of the war has been the subject of debates in both Houses of Parliament, a feature of the proceedings being aa atEnpk on Lord Kitchener, who was warmly championed by Mr. Asquith.