A LULL IN THE VERDUN ATTACK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 60, 10 March 1916, Page 5

A LULL IN THE VERDUN ATTACK.

GERMANS ARE MOVING UP HEAVY GUNS. MANY DIFFICULTIES TO BE OVERCOME. (Reed. 8.25 a.m.) # LONDON, March 9. Colonel Repington reports that the Germans at Verdun commenced oving up their heavy guns three miles on the 27th February. It is exicted tfcat it will be at least ten days or a fortnight before the work is implet4t. especially as the weather is bad.. 'To advance heavy batteries a line on Beaumont, Ornes and Frojnezey will be difficult. Roads must s prepared, gunpits and magazines built and the whole .of the artillery iked up with telephone. AN AMERICAN CORRRESPONDENT AT VERDUN. DAMAGE BY GERMANS LESS TITAN ANTICIPATED. NO BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED. NUMBER OF FRENCH SOLDIERS BURNT ALIVE. BY GERMANS THROWING LIQUID FIRE. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) ( PARIS, March 9. The correspondent of the American Associated Press, who visited erdun, says there is less damage than h e anticipated, no buildings had >en destroyed. j An artillery officer stated that in the first days of the bombardment ),000 shells fell in a single sector a thousand metres long and 600 •oaiU' * f A general officer told the correspondent that Germany lost 80,000 kill1, and that a number of French soldiers-were burnt alive by the Germans rowing flaming liquids. ( A GERMAN LIE CONTRADICTED. . FRANCE ONLY LOST 700 L (Reed. 9.20 a.m.) V PARIS, March 9. Le Matin, replying to yesterday’s German claim, declares that Prance st only seven hundred in prisoners.