PLEA FOR DIVERSION TO EASE STRAIN AT VERDUN.
TOWN WILL FALL IF GERMAN ADVANCE GOES ON. (Received June 26. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON. JUNE 26. The London Daily Chronicle remarks editorially:—" Unless the Blow but steady German advance on Verdun is interrupted it must end in the fall of the town. The French commanders value ground solely as a means of bleeding the enemy, and the Germans rely on - : superiority of heavy guns to neutralise the losses sustained in infantry attacks. We cannot accurately determine which way the balance has - /inclined in the last chapters of this sanguinary rivalry. We should all like to see some diversion which would ease the growing strain of this gruesome contest upon France." The newspapers give prominence to the communiques reporting , ft heavy night-long bombardment of the German front by the British.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16266, 27 June 1916, Page 7
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