THE GERMANS AT VERDUN.
Discussing the recapture of Fort Veaux early last month, Mr Ashmead Bartlett said: “The German efforts to explain to the neutral world the reasons why (hey evacuated the fort of Vaux slioav the exact amount of intelligence they attribute to those who will be privileged to read such stuff .Veaux was evacuated because it was no longer (enable under the fire of the French 4(H) millimetre guns. The fort might have been taken the same day on which Donamont fell, hut (he stall wished to save their infantry as far as possible, end to prepare the ground by a systematic bombardment. Now the Avork, or Avhal remains of it, Ims been occupied without the loss of .a single man. The Gorman efforts to make out lhal Ihese lost positions wore without any military importance, and that their evacuation was part of a preconceived plan, arc childish. If they were without importance, and if it had been decided to evacuate them, why wait for an attack Avhich, according to the calculations of the French Staff, hits cost them 22 battalions, practically destroyed, and 90 batteries put out of action?”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1653, 21 December 1916, Page 4
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192THE GERMANS AT VERDUN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1653, 21 December 1916, Page 4
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