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The result of General Joffrel careful tactics was that the

Germans by the Saturday evening 11..0 shot their bolt. Their efforts on the Sunday were great, but not quite as great, and certainly not as successful. By Monday they were weakening, and on Tuesday evening they had ceased to attack. As a proof that we are using no exaggerated language, note the fact that the German communi7us in Thursday's papers make no allusion to the Verdun battle. It apparently had ceased to interest the purveyor of official news. Yet until Thursday the ambient air had resounded with the weirdest legends of German successes and of French defeats.

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