THE VERDUN BATTLE
STRUGGLE EXTENDS
HEAVY ENEMY BOMBARDMENT.
(Received March 6, 2.35 p.m.) LONDON, sth March. A Paris communique states: The struggle which was localised at the villiage of Douaumont has been extended. .The" enemy at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening, after a violent bombardment, vigorously attacked our lines from Bois d'Haudremont to Fort Douaumont, but was repulsed by a curtain of artillery and infantry fire. The bombardment was continued during the night with some intensity along the whole front eastward of the Meuse and Avestward of Dead Man and Goose hills.-
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 55, 6 March 1916, Page 8
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92THE VERDUN BATTLE Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 55, 6 March 1916, Page 8
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