Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-04 | Page 1 | Road to Verdun

I THE ROAD TO VERDUN II I I IJ Ii J i r A I it I 4 S V d J i j A I fu I D 1 C CS C'S S i q I ll I c I I r I I w i w I Foemen at Verdun Struggle in Cave j t arri i Q P PARIS PARts March 4 An An ep episode sode of the ti battle of Verdun Verdu Is is told br by a v nan man wh who ha has d here who wa was wad posted in a quarry at Louv Louvemont mont the on-the Meuse l heights lle He says sayE The quarry ended at the rear in a deep cave caye running Under the plateau over which the Germans would advance to the attack A detachment to which I I belonged took refuge in the cave the heavy heavy bombardment bombardment lasting forty eight hours bours was war going on and after which the latt attack ck was delivered Arriving at at of the plateau the Germans Germans' dug dugan an ope opening ing Into the c cave ve from above but hut were prevented from from entering entering as as the saw us witha gun ready to receive them In the meantime they had bad got into the quarry so of ot our ur detachment had to rush forward to defend the entrance to the cave The Germans had no machine machine but they used long jets of liquid fire of red and green color and It was by the light thus given that the struggle went on For s some me minutes the Germans held their ground by piling up their theix dead so as to form a barricade but at last our machine e gun drove them them and an and l they were then attacked and driY driven out by another of ot our detachments which arrived in the nick of or time