THE ALLIES' OPERATIONS ACTION AT VERDUN

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 76, 26 September 1914, Page 7

THE ALLIES' OPERATIONS ACTION AT VERDUN

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND GERMAN CASUALTIES TRANSPORT PREPARATIONS AT METZ. (Received September 26, 9 a.m.) BORDEAUX, 25th September. Advices from Basle state that the Germans lost ten thousand dead and fifteen thousand wounded at Verdun. Three German and one Austrian army corps continue the attack. The enemy has been making gigantic preparations for transporting from Metz for a week past the heaviest artillery. An unremitting fire by the Verdun forts prevented the guns being placed in position. The German attacks followed each other with lightning rapidity, but all were repulsed. The plain to the eastward of Verdun is strewn with five thousand corpses. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Received September 26,, 9 a.m.) PARIS, 25th September. Official. — On our left wing the battle is developing. In the' centre there is a, lull. On our right wing the German attacks seem to have been checked. OPERATIONS CHECKED BY FLOODS (Received September 26, 9.30 a.m.) BERNE, 25th September. Snow and floods checked the operations in upper Alsace. REINFORCEMENTS FOR GERMAN ARMIES (Received September 26, 10.5 a.m.) ' sf AMSTERDAM, 25th September. Two hundred thousand German reinforcements for France traversed Belgium during the last few days. LARGE FORCES OF THE ENEMY FIRMLY ENTRENCHED PARIS, 24th September. Official. — On the left, between the Somme and the Oise, we have made progress in the direction of Roye, twenty-six miles soutll-east of Amiens. The detachment wliich occupied Peronne has maintained its position, notwithstanding vigorous attacks. The enemy, between the Oise and the Aisne, continues to keep large forces firmly entrenched. We have advanced slightly north-west of Berryoubae. There is no change' between Reims and the Argonne. The enemy has continued his attacks east of the Argonne, and on the heights of the Meuse the struggle continues with alternate retirement at certain points, and advance at others. There is no notable change in the region of Nancy and the Vosges. Somo detachments of_ the enemy tried to penetrate French territory, driving back our light covering force, but the movement was soon arrested. ENEMY'S LOSSES (Received September 26, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 25th September. The Cologne Gazette, on Wednesday last, published the thirtieth list of German losses. It occupies six columns. INFORMATI&N FROM FRENCH PRISONERS (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received September 26, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 25th September. French prisoners passing through Liege threw scraps of paper from the train, stating : "We are fifteen thousand prisoners from Maubeuge; but the Germans lost eighty thousand."