DETERMINED TRY FOR VERDUN.
AFTER 36 HOURS BOMBARDMENT GERMANS ATTACK. HELD UP BY 'STORM OF BULLETS. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association), (Received July 14, 8.45 a.m;) '.:[ PARIS, July ,12: The Petit Parisien says that the Germans, hoping to surround SouviUe. fort, subjected the whole Verdun f font to a thirty-six hours bombardment. An "infantry attack began at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Eighteen thousand, employed on a three kilometre front, southward of the village of Fleury , faced ;a rapid curtain of fire, but regardless of losses crossed the barrier of fire and advanced •■; towards Souville, and after a hard struggle were compelled to halt by a storm of bullets from hundreds of macliineguns 6n the slopes of Souville plateau. The nearest German line was 800 yards from the fort. The German front at some other points _was advanced five hundred yards, but this gives no cause for Uneasiness.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14044, 14 July 1916, Page 3
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148DETERMINED TRY FOR VERDUN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14044, 14 July 1916, Page 3
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