GERMAN PLANS UPSET.
FRENCH STAND AT VERDUN. | } 'to Scccolo, of Milan, publishes infer*. J ' mation Irora Swiss sources regarding th® German preparations for the attack oq 3, Verdun. The offensive uas not intended to opctt ' until the end of April, but after the journey of the French Premier to Rome the l| ' German General Staff at the end of Jmm. ffl " ary decided to anticipate this date. V?r- g 1 dun was not to have been the only object., k 1 as an attack was to be mado on_ another H I part of the front soon after the victor)' all | J l , which was considered to oa >' certain. . f ! The resistance offered by tlio second • 1 French line obliged the Germans to alter f their carefully-elaborated plans, and now : all units of the specially-prepared army. ' aro engaged beforo Verdnn. Some have ! already been destroyed. It is improbable j J. that the Germans will be able to develop, [ J their other projected attack. ,H
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16214, 27 April 1916, Page 8
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