FIVE ATTACKS ON FORT VAUX.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 5

FIVE ATTACKS ON FORT VAUX.

ALL DRIVEN OFF WITH HEAVY LOSSES.

ENEMY CAUGHT BY SEVENTY-FIVES AND MACHINE-GUNS.

The High Commissioner reports under date of London, March 17:— West of the Meuse the bombardment slackened in the course of the night in the region of Bethincourt-Cumieres. Since the sanguinary check of the -' attack yesterday the enemy has not renewed his attempts on Mort Homme.

East of the Meuse a recrudescence of the bombardment was followed by a series of violent offensives against the village and Fort Vaux. Five successive attacks with great effectives were thrown by the Germans without success, two on the village, two others against the crest which the fort surand lastly one attempting to debouch on the road south-east of the Tillage of Vaux. All these attacks were broken by French curtain of fire and mitrailleuses, costing the enemy important sacrifices. In the Woevre there has been only a reciprocal cannonade throughout the sector west of Pont a Mouason and a coup de main on the salient of the iine opposite Bois de Jfortmare, the enemy losing'prisoners and suffering other casualties.