ENEMY PRODIGAL OF LIFE.

Evening Star, Issue 16049, 28 February 1916, Page 3

ENEMY PRODIGAL OF LIFE.

FRENCH GUNS' EXECUTION. PARIS, Feuruary 26. A comjsiunique states: Snow is lying jn abundance at Verdun. The activity of both artilleries is extremely intense along the whole front, but especially on the cast of the Meuse, whero fighting is being pursued with, tho same vigor. Several German attacks with large numbers of effectives have been carried out with unparalleled, violence at l'oivre Hul, but were unsuccessful, We .stopped an attack at Vauche Wood. There is no infantry fighting west oi Trie Meuse. The latest news shows that the battle raging at Verdun is the most terrific in. modern times, though a 24-hour s snowstorm abated its ferocity in some sectors on Friday. Eye-witnesses narrate that the German cannonade was such that all the trenches and fortifications were completely overturned. A surgeon who was present on February 22 narrates that he saw the whole oi a German brigade which was advancing in massed columns suddenly caught by a converging fire by several French batteries and annihilated almost to a man in a moment. Eight successive attacks on Haumont were repulsed with enormous losses. Two Baden regiments were ehattered by the fire of three batteries of 75s which were suddenly unmasked. Tho survivors were seized by a mad panic and fled. Out of the 2,500 men of one regiment, only 70 answered the roll call.