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......
A Very Picturesque Incident In The Battle, Though Not...
one of such moment as has been represented, was the capture and recapture of Douaumont, one of the star forts which form what has been called the inner defensive line of Verdun.......
Forts Seem To Have A Far Greater Influence On Men's
minds than trench-lines. Spend a million on bricks and mortar, concrete arcades, and steel cupolas, and give the whole a sonorous name; then when it is blown to smithereens and......
We May Well Be Wrong, But It Would Be Just
like the Germans to argue : " It would be better to add three hundred thousand Swiss troops to the enemy forces than to lose perhaps double that number of men in failing to......
We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Question Of Where The
next German blow will fall, for it is obvious that the Germans cannot break off the encounter and sit still. After such a beginning as Verdun they must go on, and go on in " a......
News Of The Week.
A S we ventured to anticipate last week, the attack on Verdun was the beginning of the groat German push, the charge with the bridle off, the assault to be pressed through at......
As Yet There Is No Trustworthy Account Of What The
German losses have been. We only know that they must have been exceedingly heavy. Some reports speak of forty thousand dead men, which is by no means impossible. Others put the......
From Tuesday In Last Week To Tuesday In This Week
the battle raged without ceasing. On Saturday last it reached its crisis. During that day it is not too much to say that the fate of the world hung in the balance. If the French......
