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Show GERMANS URGED TO HAVE FAITH Position at Verdun Not Encouraging En-couraging But Confidence in Army Must Be Maintained. Berlin, April 5. The Vossischo Zeltung, referring to the Verdun operations, op-erations, says: "For the moment our position may seem discouraging, but there is still entire confidence in the strength or the German army. "lt us not be pessimistic, so we may not weaken the resistance of our soldiers." London, April 5. The strong French counter-offensive northeast of Verdun continued throughout the night, according to official statement issued by the French war office, winning win-ning for the French further gains of ground. Determined apparently not to let the Germans remain in possession posses-sion of the Important strip of ground captured in their Sunday drive, tho French have, the official statements say, entirely recaptured the Callletto wood and are now pushing further , north. The Berlin war office statement today, to-day, reporting the fighting of the previous pre-vious days, says that the French assaults as-saults all broke down. Hold Part of Wood. The Germans are still in possession , of the northern portions of the Cail-. Cail-. lette wood. It further asserts that tho . French were repulsed southwest of Fort Douaumont and that an attempt to recapture the hill at Hautmont was , broken up by the German fire. This statement deals entirely with the fighting of yesterday, so it is like- , Iy that the advances reported during the night by the French were made in later fighting than that reported by the Berlin communication. Following the deadly struggle before be-fore dawn, calm settled down upon the battle front. During the day the infantry of both sides remained in the trenches and the artillery fire diminished dimin-ished considerably from the intensity of previous days. |