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Show INFANTRY AHACK AGAIN AT VERDUN French Guns Decimate the Troops Making a Drive Around Douaumont. Paris, March 2, 6:55 p. m. German attacks of great violence, both artll-lery artll-lery and infantry, havo been resumed to the north of Verdun. Tho official statemont lBaued by the French war office tonight sayB that furious infantry in-fantry assaults have been repulsed by tho French troops, "whose fire decimated the ranks of tho enemy." Tho text of the statement follows "Destructive fires havo been dl-dected dl-dected by our artillery against the German organizations to the east of SteenBtraete. "Between the Somme and the Olse, a German work was destroyed by our batteries in tho region of Bcuraignes "In Champagne, a German ')aero-plano, ')aero-plano, shelled by our batteries In the vicinity of Suippes, fell in flames within the enemy lines. "In the Argonne, we executed concentrated con-centrated fires to the north of Hara-zee Hara-zee and the Choppy wood. "In the region to the north of Verdun Ver-dun and in the Woovre, tho activity of the enemy artillery, which had abated somewhat during the preceding days, was considerably increased in the course of the day along the entire front and principally on Le Mort Homme, the Cote du Polvre, and in the region of Douaumont At the last-named last-named point, the bombardment was followed by several attacks of Infantry In-fantry of extreme violence. This series of attacks was repulsed by our troops, whose fire decimated the enemy ranks. ."Our batteries replied energetically everywhere to the bombardment and shelled the enemy's roads of communication. com-munication. "To the northeast of St. Mihiol our long-range guns bombarded the railway rail-way station at Vigneulles According to our observers, two fires wero started, start-ed, several trains were hit and a locomotive loco-motive was blown up "In upper -Alsace there has been great activity on the part of both artilleries in the region of Seppois "Last night ono of our bombing squadrons dropped 44 shells of all calibers on the station at Chambley, which appeared to have suffered serious ser-ious damage. Notwithstanding a lively live-ly cannonading, the aoroplanes returned re-turned in safety to our lines "Today our aeroplanes dropped 40 shells on the railway station at Bens-dorf Bens-dorf and nine projectiles on the enemy en-emy establishments at Avricourt." |