INVOLVED IN FUTILITY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11581, 23 May 1916, Page 5

INVOLVED IN FUTILITY.

j GERMAN ATTACK ON VERDUN. ; MUST BE KEPT UP. DARE NOT RELAX. : Loudon, May 21. Colonel Repingtou writes that the Germans -attacked Verdun con- ; vinced that they could strike a blow, sweep on to Paris, | and then in turn overwhelm Russia. 1 The dogged French valour, however, | frustrated the plan. The French j momentarily reeled, but speedily j recovered ana established their defence on a line which is likely to ' prove impregnable against the i Germans’ full might and fury. The : Germans cannot resign themselves ■ to Hie fact that their supreme effort • failed. They dare not face the con- : sequences at home or abroad. Even • confiding Austria does not believe 1 the clumsy fiction of progress accordimg to a preconceived plan. : Hungarian critics refuse to believe that the three months jiause is part ; of the German staffs’ conception of | the venture. They remark that the battle so far is a French victory and adding that it is impossible to pierce the Verdun region. If this opinion 1 is censored by the Buda Pestii press, wiiat is being thought in the Dual ; Monarchy of the Fatherland itself? | —Sydney Sun cablo. ! GERMAN TWISTS AND TURNS. ' ENDEAVOUR TO GAIN RESULTS i ’ FOILED ON EVERY HAND. The Times’ correspondent at Paris says that each development of the i Verdun battle further separates the | Genuans from their goal. ’When I their first onslaught against Donau- ; mont tailed, they transferred their j attentions to Pepper Hill, also , without success, and then went further afield, across the Mouse, to , Dead Man. The latter proved as | firm as Douaumont. Then they tried ! to turn Dead Man about Hill 804, but without success. Then they displaced tne centre of attack to the i Avocourt region, where there has been an uninterrupted struggle ever : since, the French holding their own ; and inflicting heavy Josses. The arrival of German reinforcements ; indicates the importance the enemy ; attaches to these operations, also ; the extent ot his losses. French airmen spotted great rail- | way activity back of the front and bombarded many railway stations ; before the reinforcements arrived. —■ Sydney Sun cable. i GREAT ARTILLERY ACTIVITY. BRITISH TRENCHES ■ BOMBARDED. London, May 23. There was heavy enemy artillery i activity from Vimy to Loo?, also ; south of Souehez against our front i trenches. 2 We silenced a hostile battery north of Mjitz Wood. ; i FLYING IN BIG FLOCKS. jiiii-VWfflwq ' FIFTY-THREE MACHINES ON THE BOMB. ENEMY CANTONMENTS BOMBARDED.

Paris, May 32. Fifty-three Allied aeroplanes: dropped 250 bombs on enemy cantonments at Wyfege and Ghistilleh. GERMAN ATTACKS ON C DUNKIRK. MANY CIVILIANS KILLED. ; ALLIED AEROPLANE REVENGE. . Paris, May 22. j Twenty bombs were dropped on j Dunkirk on Saturday, four being ;• killed and fifteen wounded. j Another squadron dropped a j hundred bombs in the suburbs of j Dunkirk on Sunday. Three were i killed and twenty wounded. ; Allied aeroplanes pursued and i brought down two of the raiders ; when they were re-entering the ; German lines.

AN ENLIGHTENING COMMITTEE. TELLING FRANCE THE TRUTH, | Paris, May 21. j A lectures committee, under M. ; Pichon’s presidency, has been i formed to spread knowledge through- 1 out France of what the Allies are | doing in the common cause. The ; committee includes the most pro- ' minent scientists, iiterateurs and : commercial men.