FRANCE CONFIDENT.
GERMAN DESPERATION. Received Feb. 26, 1.15 a.m. The offensive at Verdun has eclipsed all topics. France is watching events with unconquerable confidence, though the enemy have three-quarters of a million men under the Crewa Prince, and mostly picked troops. There are evident risks in attempting an offensive before the end of the winter, but the General Staff at Berlin i 3 under such pressure of economic and dynastic considerations as to be unable to choose their time. In order to prevent a repetition of the Crown Prince's blunders the Kaiser has sent the veteran General von Haeseler, formerly in command at Metz, who knows the terrain of the present attack, and lie will assist the Crown Prince. Adopting General Hindenburg's plan the Germans massed two hundred thousand men on a front of seven miles, being sixteen men per yard,
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1916, Page 5
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141FRANCE CONFIDENT. Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1916, Page 5
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