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Show k rasH m hurl 1 MILLIONS OF SHELLS) ! Bavarians Refuse to Fighl j at Verdun; Sent to East i Front, Is Report. j . i I By FREDERICK PALMER. j BRITISH HKADQt'AKTEKS IN UJIANOK, June SO. 1 p. in., via London. jO ::i0 p. m. The fouith day of the British Brit-ish bonibar.Iiiient of the German positions j sf-es no diminution of the volume of fire, j w hich' continues alontf the whole line without cessation, Ciy and niyht, cutting barbed v. ire entanglements, demolishing: first and seroiul lines of German trenches and placing curtains of fire on the roads and communicating' trenches. ionsiderably more than J.tiOO.OOfl shells a dav are being expended and there seems 10 be no limit to the supply of them. Hritish infantry actions have been limited lim-ited thus far to raids under cover of at lillery and trench mortar fire, which ascertain the state of the German wire entanglements and trenches. The new type of British mortar is capable of such rapid fire that it can place six shots in the air at once, which have proved highly serviceable, both in the cutting of I wire and the smashing of trenches. Last nijdit the sUy from twenty to ; thirty miles in the rar toward the east 1 was brilliant, as if with the glaie of the i aurora borealis. from dusk to dawn. This I was the only illumination aloni; the roads j .Vnr the movement of trucks and aiitomo- biles, none of whi 'h carried lights. From a point near a group of batteries the t correspondent witnessed a scene of gran- i deur under the canopy of a cloudless and 'moonless night, with a broad sheet of fiamti and ugly flashes and darts of fire oer the area of action. Today the sun is breaking through the overcast sky for the first time In three days and is welcome to the artillery observers. German trenches in several places were ( seen to be deserted. The defensive works rnd wire entanglements were badly damaged. At other parts of the German Une the positions are strongly held and rVeat alertness ife manifest and constant. .Spasmodic, bursts of machine-gun tire and riflo volleys indicate a condition of apprehension. ap-prehension. The British infantry is carrying on Is i aiding as usual nnd has brought back prisoners from several places. The hostile artillery retaliation, although al-though heavy in one or two localities, has been mostly of a half-hearted character. char-acter. Through the raids parried on by the British aeroplanes during the present week, it has been possible to identify evei v German battalion opposite the English lines. Pome of the prisoners taken said the lire was so heavy that it destroyed the communication trenches and they were unable to bring up food to the front line for three clays. it Is now known that the Germans have withdrawn from the Verdun front the Eleventh Bavarian division and the Twenty-second reserve corps, and from Die Champagne front the Tenth corps, for reinforcements for Von HIndenburg on the eastern front. It is probable also tin at three additional divisions have . neon withdrawn from before the British front recently. Another report states that the KIrventh "Bava rians refused to a f tack a t Verdun again, whereupon the order was issued that every tenth man be shot. The king of riavaria is reported to have intervened inter-vened and the kaiser then decided to send the Eleventh to the eastern front. . |