27 MAY 1916, Page 2

As we write the frenzied attacks of the Germans, said

to number seventy-five thousand men altogether, still continue around Dead Man's Hill, Curnieres, and the Douaumont Fort. Monday and Tuesday were the great days, but the news on Thursday afternoon shows that the awful tide of war is still setting strong. It would therefore be useless to attempt to say in detail what has been taken and what lost. To-morrow's news may completely change the aspect of affairs.