ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THE CROWN PRINCE
NO REVIEW IN VERDUN IN FEBRUARY. ; : 7 ; London, March 2. ■ V * ■ |fl The French newspaper Echo de Paris states ■ that the Crown _ v_ Prince on February 16 issued an army order demanding of the troops that they should make a new decisive effort, and assuring them, that „ w \ . he expected to review them at Verdun at the end of February, and.that the blow would compel the French to agree to peace. ' y,'.v: ;.,L- ; T ■ French newspapers are evidently reticent over the later stages of' : v. the battle. , , ; . -■/''!' •,•;•";'-. : ■ '.': .v-? I '-- ■■■••"_■ '■■>" r i'v'-af: •;,'/.;'. -'■/-:'"' The newspaper Petit Parisien states that the German casualties at " ;: Verdun'are estimated at 125,000 to 150,000.' ■ " "/ _ . '..,- -,•" ". * Despite the German claims of success at Verdun, the . value of the : < mark continues to decline. ..-.■"■. , - 'Amsterdam reports that the Germans'are clearing the . battlefield r with masterly, soulless, efficiency. They;are heaping the dead*in cattle trucks ifind sending -them to blast furnaces. ,' , " v , v „ ,: ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16169, 4 March 1916, Page 7
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156ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT FOR THE CROWN PRINCE New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16169, 4 March 1916, Page 7
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