Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-05-09 | Page 3 | French Machine Guns Pour Deadly Fire

French Machine Guns Pour Out Deadly Fire i PARIS May 9 The The latest assaults of the Germans on the defenses of ot Verdun Verdun Verdun Ver Ver- dun have served to demonstrate the high pitch o of efficiency to which the French have brought the use of the machine gun The French front line trenches are being defended by machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns with witti comparatively few tew men mento mento mento to serve them and with the the a addition of ot new automatic rifles two of ot which are equivalent to one machine gunThe gun The forty hour orty- orty ight our bombardment of ot the Germans is described by eyewitnesses eyewitnesses eyewitnesses eye eye- witnesses as more severe than any- any t ng heretofore experienced and it is remarkable that the Germans were justified justified jus jus- in believing no no human being could have lived in the zone subjected JUS-I JUS to this fire Nevertheless the French are such adepts at constructing underground shelters that when the German h infantry antry I stepped from the trenches scores of well placed machine guns opened concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- fire tire thinning the ranks of ot the attackers before the advance was fairly begun French officers state that the losses of the Germans in proportion to the number engaged were as great as In any other action of ot the war