TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14509, 4 March 1916, Page 6

TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER.

LONDON, Friday. Th,» -'Daily Chronicle's" Paris cor-Tos**r*..-'.out states that owing- to tue a-ri'-Utrul -arlier losses., the more recent t'Jieiiiv .uiai-ks have been made wuii -fewer men. . In their attempts to relieve the Liautk . n.ei—rs. the Prussians charged eigut t i,;„.s Cut the assault broke against t.ve fire of mitrailleuses and seventy-lives. Tin- Germans would not admit U*;U thov wee I eaten, and resumed their at-■•i.-k- after midnight on Monday. Th«- "l.iberte's" correspondent adds. **l must admit the courage of tuesc ,-r-icV troops of the Guards and. die Fifteenth i„rps, who must have known "t'lioi- were marching to certain dc.iU. _Ik"v :,.l*aiu'.ed as if on parade tut wit hi i- sixty feel. Taen they r«u, cryi..''Vorwaerts!' ll( We waited without 't.ud_uii.'. A salvo from our machine■wims tore through the first ranks. We then charged and repulsed the enemy. The -dunk of the collision in the dark1U was terrible. Tragic mistakes were u,-,,'e Alauv Germans transfixed their comrades on*bayonets. The approaches to noimumont were covered with dead and wounded.'' ( The newspapers agree that the since •■•i'la" of infautrv operations at \ enmn Ls only temporary, and that the Germans will come on again. It is estimated that the German- nave .already lost 10(.,0t>l) men. flic' Braudenbuvgcrs are securely trapped. The French will avoid useless *? laughter by waiting for famine to do its work." .... A Irench woiuuled man states: *• .me Germans love the close formation. It dtdif'lited us. My regiment, was six jimes ordered to retire to get the enemy within range of tho seventy-lives. a he hecatombs were piled up each time. The "Pailv Telegraph's" Bans correspondent says that the German onslaught on Verdun must bo regarded as h.-aing failed. t The extraordinary situation at .tori 'Oouaumont is not'changed, the itfrandenburgers being still imprisoned m tiie Tiiin.