Show Proving Simonds' Simonds Words Word t i y v 4 t War dispatches the last few days certainly have been s supporting written by by Frank H. H Simonds Americas America's famous military r t who has just returned from the Verdun battle front m in the first of his series of articles to appear exclusively in rt fI lip lipper r rJ paper per declared that the German drive at Verdun had already J fa fad ed d Today a dispatch from Paris says r t. t The le French in n their powerful counter cunter offensive north of Verdun 7 have won by storm more than a mile of trenches For the time at least the initiative has passed completely into their hands It That General Petain Retain has struck at the psychological moment and i. i that the French are now definite masters of th the Verdun fighting is the tha thel l' l pinion opinion 1 of military experts here They expect that the Germans will 1 strike somewhere else on the front most probably against the sectors i held by the British as a means of letting the the- Verdun attempt sink gradually into the tomb of history |