AT VERDUN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16666, 11 April 1916, Page 5

AT VERDUN.

WITH THE RUSSIANS

RENEWAL OF GERMAN ATTACKS EVERYWHERE REPULSED BY FRENCH BRITISH TYPHUS PATIENTS IN GERMANY INCREDIBLE INHUMANITY OF TEUTONS A WARNING TO GREECE BULGAft-GERMAN OFFENSIVE PROJECTED

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BRISBANE, April 10. Speaking at a university function, the Chief Justice of Queensland said that Prance, once regarded as the home of sabotage, and Russia, once regarded as ■wrecked by internal disputes; had entered the "war with unanimity of spirit, whilst in England, the home of freedom, there were dissentients, shirkers, and strikers. He as a democrat was puzzled to know as to how these could exist in a" democratic community. Some people said that preference to unionists and all such concessions to Labour would Tesult in the-ad-vance of democracy, but such, practices ■were really the introduction of despotism.

FIGHTING AT POTAVA.. GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. TURKISH UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS. PETROGRAD, April 9. (Received April 10, at 8.40 p.m.) A communique states: There was a violent artillery duel opposite Potava, where the enemy attempted to attack, but. was driven back. •The Turks in a coastal region of- the Caucasus, made three unsuccessful attacks on our position on the right bank of the Taar Dere.