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Show . BATTLEFIELDS HEAR OF WILSON'S VICTORY Creates Intense Interest Among Soldiers Fighting at Fort Vaux. FO RT V A V X ON T H E V ERDUN' P'llOXT. Nov. s. via Paris (From a Staff Correspondent of the Associated Press). News of Hie presidential election in Hie X.'nitcd States was communicated by wireless wire-less telegraph to the correspondent of the Associated Press in Fort Vanx today and created intense interest amid Die activities activi-ties of defense preparations and under a very severo German hombardnient. The correspondent reached the fort, which is the most advanced fortified point oi" the French lines at Verdun, around die walls of which shells were then falling fall-ing and thickly Increased throughout the day. Wp hi n the parrison the French pve engaged in restoring the fort to its original condition and strength. Kviden'-e was discovered in the shape of a programme drafted by (the German commander, Von Kngel Brechton. dated October 21, for strengthening the position so as to permit the Germans to prepare for a further attack on Verdun. The details de-tails comprised the erection of barricades in the interior, in order to permit of its defense in sections: also the construction construc-tion of a. new exit and galleries, the erection of barbed-wire entanglements, and the excavation of a tunnel, forty feet of which had been completed. The French found essential parts of t he fortress intact and that the other parts could easily be restored, despite a ' number of mines hastily laid by t lie Germans Ger-mans before their departure, most of which were unexploded. The Germans also left a million rifle cartridges, many shells and grenades, two machine guns, one cannon. 2onn rations, much canned preserves, quantities of mineral waters, medical ha ndo pes and stores. Kver sinco their departure the Germans have bombarded the fort night and day. hut have nut been successful in preventing prevent-ing supplies from arriving. The corre-pondent corre-pondent of the Associated Press was compelled to stay fourteen hours in the fortress and then had to cover the first furious from the exit at a racing pace through a chower of high explosive projectiles, pro-jectiles, which fell on ground already dented with shell shots like a colander. The French have already advanced their lines well to the front of the fort, thus opposing any attempt at a counter-attack by the Germans, who would be obliged to seek a position in marshy . ground, where it would he impossible to dig trenches. Vaux was the sole strong point oeoiipled by 'he Germans, from which it would be possible to execute a counter-alt counter-alt a c( with any probability to success, and the Germans are constantly showing their vexation over its loss by throwing thousands of sheila into it. Bu t while these have caused a much greater vibration, vibra-tion, they have not affected the stability of the posii ion. Dead Germans He all mound. Letters found on t he bodies contain si I'ong complaints regarding the food supply of the civilian population. |
