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Show VERDI'S LINES ARE VERY STRONG French Paper Estimates Germans Ger-mans Are Ten Deep to Every Yard of Front. Paris, Feb. 24. The Temps, in its military reviews, estimates that the Germans are employing on the average aver-age ten Infantryman to every three feet of front where the attack is fiercest north of Verdun that Is over a line eight miles In length betweon Brabant and Ornes. The reviewer maintains that the operations are not necessarily preliminary prelim-inary to an attack to besiege Verdun, but comprise an attack on a wide part of the front of which Verdun forms a part of the rear support. The attacks, ho declares, are still held within the first line works, while there are three other lines at strategic strate-gic Intervals behind the first. These lines are more solidly constructed and are more elaborate in their nature na-ture than the first lines, as work on them could be done at leisure without with-out their labors being within the range of the German fire. |