Show I toTos I I To 0 QUIT REPORT L Eat Latest test st German Moves Indicate That One More More Smash Smas Will Vill Be Attempted by Prince TROOPS SHIFTED Renewal of Struggle Begins With Attack on n Village of Vaux After rAfter 36 Hours' Hours Lull By CHARLES CHARIES P. P STEWART rE ART United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON March Ger 18 Ger- Ger man Illan troops today broke the lull lullin lullin in n the Verdun struggle by re re- n wing ewing their attacks around Vaux aux village five and one half ropes northeast of Verdun 1 he e assault was preceded d b b by r the n ua artillery Jil ery sI bu lI the fury tury of the earlier attacks Paris dispatches indicated tonight The F Fench French ench w ir office announced that the G erman cean onslaughts onslaught were were promptly c by bv a curtain of fir fire from from fench Rench artillery that swept the territory terri tern tory tiny between Vaux Vaur village and the wood north of ot farm Riviere w ere the attack gathered the th greatest greatest greatest great great- est force rho official statement from the grench ench war office tonight also re reported reported reported re- re ported minor actions in Lorraine and andt t at artillery firing at the extreme southern fend end e d of the western battle front In Inthe Inthe Inthe the region of ot Lorraine small smaIl bodies of ot German troops penetrated F French ench advanced trenches it was sf stated slated ted but were immediately thrown o out Dut t by a counter counterattack attack Early this evening the official statement statement state state- ment added the Germans threw their rge aige arge caliber shells in the direction of the French fortress of ot Belfort tw twenty twenty- enty- enty eight miles west of the Rhine Rhine Air ir Scouts Active K Vague rumors of ot important German troop movements reached London in dispatches from both Dutch and Swiss sources tonight I These reports strengthened d the belief belie 1 lJ Jre re that the next forty-eight forty hours sil bring decisive events in the Ver- Ver Jun Jn struggle Either the crown prince have hive launched a gr grand nd assa assault lU the Verdun positions it is thought here or the attempt against jt will have been abandoned his afternoons afternoon's ons on's official statement the Fr French war office mentioned German German tr troop op southeast o of Verdun Reports from Paris Pans tonight sa d that the few air scouts who pene- pene ted the heavy eavy Jog fog og behind Verdun ported similar movements Ms l Prince Q Quitting it g veral everal Paris military critics relt- relt prated er ted their earlier statements that thai aper ajer four weeks of one of the greatest attIcs of war the crown prin prince e has decide to quit the attempt to take the Krench rench fort felt t was believed beHaved possible that the troops shifting may be only a a. fling fang pro process ess preliminary to fresh Gern Ger- Ger man n attacks Even sho should ld the j Germans Germans Ger Ger- r mans ns have de decided to abandon the theY Y offensive vicious fighting is expected to continue for several days around the fortress fortress' to cover ver ver the withdrawal withdrawal with- with of troops i The he French and German war offices agreed in official statements this this' aft- aft that no important fighting occurred occurred oc- oc e last night on the Verdun front B Berlin attributed this lull hull to the to-the the heavy fog t Veil il Airship Raids statement statement was not accepted by byC C Continued on page 5 5 TO QUIT Continued from page 1 1 English military men They declared a mist which permitted the great aerial activities described in the French official statement this afternoon would have been a slight bar to infantry oper oper- No word has come from Berlin as asto asto asto to the extent of the damage done by French fliers who bombarded the railway railway railway rail rail- way stations at Metz Conflans and Arnaville and the aerodrome West of the Meuse German gunners violently bombarded French positions In the regions of Bourrus wood and throughout the day French batteries were active on the entire front and especially in the I region In the Moranville l wood the I French war office reported a German GermanI I munitions depot was destroyed I |