Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1918 — GERMANS RENEW VERDUN ASSAULTS [ARTICLE]

GERMANS RENEW VERDUN ASSAULTS

iFrench Guns Smash Big Hun Drives in Region of Avo- < court Wood. i KAISER LOSES FIVE PLANES fThree Machines Brought Down by Pilots and Two by Antiaircraft Guns —Fighting Grows Fiercer in Alsace and Lorraine. Paris, March B.—German raids on the Verdun front were repulsed by the French, the war office announces. The communication follows: “Rather heavy artillery fighting occurred in the region of Gormley and Reims, trenches at Avocourt wood and northwest of hill 344 (Verdun front). Out fire everywhere cliecked the assailants and prisoners, including an officer, remaining in our ha ids. “Our lines were bombarded intermitten"® 7 in the region of Avocourt and north of Douaniont. At times there was heavy artillery filing at various ; points in Lorraine and Alsace. “On Tuesday three German airplanes /were brought down by our pilots and jtwo by the fire of our antiaircraft \guns. “Macedonian front: There was reciprocal artillery activity west of Lake )Dolhan in the Cerna Bend and north tof Monastir.” British Smash Heavy Raids. London, March B.—A raid attempted by the enemy at night east of Epehy, under cover of a heavy aritilery barrage, was completely repulsed, the war office reports. “Other hostile raiding parties which endeavored to reach our lines southeast of Bols Grenier and east of Poeloapelle, were equally unsuccessful. “The enemy's artH’.ery has been active in the Scarpe valley west of Lens and east of Ypres, and shortly before dawn developed considerable activity In the Neuve* Chapelle sector.” w Italian Guns Shell Teutons. Rome, March 8. —The Italian and enemy batteries on important sectors of .the front have again taken up reciprocal firing activity. The statement from the war office also reports effective work by Italian airships.