A DECISIVE RESULT EXPECTED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 124, 26 May 1916, Page 5

A DECISIVE RESULT EXPECTED.

A CLEVER FRENCH INITIATIVE. DEVELOPS INTO THE MOST DEADLY CONFLICT. GERMANS MAKE THE BLOODIEST SACRIFICES. j HUNS VERITABLY MASSACRED BY THE FRENCH. HIDES COVERED WITH GERMAN CORPSES. (Reed. 8.50 a.m.). t PARIS, May 25. Semi-official: Fighting at Verdun continues with the fiercest violence. Fighting on Wednesday assumed a desperation not reached since the struggle began. The German command seemed determined at all cost to obtain, some result, and were more than ever prodigal in sacrificing their men. Bavarians at Douaumont repeated untiring and desperate assaults and the French infantry made a veritable massacre, showing their marvellous bite in resistance, against which the. most furious assaults were successively broken. Eventually the Germans, at the end of the day, penetrated the fort, where the present conflict surpasses all predecessors. In really a general battle begun on the French initiative, with an attack on Fort Douaumont last (Wednesday, and it may be decisive. The slopes on the east and north of the fort are covered with German corpses.