THE TAKING OF VAUQUOIS.
A FIELD FORTRESS BATTERED BY FRENCH GUNS. BR-XEIAKX ATTACK SUCCEEDS. .- ... (Received 2.25 pjn.) ■i. ~ , . . ■~>--■ ■ PARIS, March 14. It is officially stated that the capture of Vauquois, miles north-west of Verdun, prevents the Germans masking their operations ncath of Varennes and readily revictualling the troops in the Argonne and Chepy Wood. Vauquois was a regular fortress. Tlie village was built in the side of a hill 300 metres high, and the cellars of the houses were hollowed in the rock, affording the field artillery proof shelter. The Germans constructed subterranean passages '.between, the cellars, forming a defensive system of the .first order. -A brilliant attack on the 17th showed ithe difficulties to be surmounted, and the attack- was, recommenced -on the 28th With violent heavy artillery fire. . When the troops entered Vauquois was a; heap; of; rains.;... ,The- cellars collapsed tinder the weight of the large projectiles, •jvhich revealed hollowed pits four metres Seep and eight in diameter.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 63, 15 March 1915, Page 2
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