In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 3, 6 April 1916, Page 5

In the West.

I THE RECENT GERMAN FLIGHT AT DOUOUMONT. I “ENEMY Lujbct. NEVER SO I TERRIBLE.” i [TJnttsd Pham AfisooiATiON.] j (Received 9.10 a.in.) | Paris, April <5. A semi-official message describing the attack preceding the flight, of the German remnants to Crouflonr Wood, says: The enemy’s object was to; twin our positions on Donaumont plateau, but the majority of attackers were annihilated before reaching our lines. It is noteworthy that troops inferior in quality advanced shoulder to j shoulder in the foremost ranks, and were sacrificed to facilitate the adj vance of the second masses, which More composed of the better fighters. I These brutal and futile tactics show j‘disregard for their human material ! contrasting with the French methods !of sparing its men. The enemy’s losses were never so terrible as (furling the recent repulses at Avocourt, Donaumont, and Vaux. THE VERDUN PRISONERS. London, April -4. Colonel Repington describes the ! German prisoners at Verdun as ignoble | and unmilitary-looking, with brutish, I horrible faces, and apparently capable of any crime. Many are undersized; and it seems as if anybody, trained or untrained j had been called out. , ?