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Show Germans Continue Furious Fighting and Turn Entire System of French Trenches I FRENCH MAKE TENACIOUS DEFENSE ., AND FURIOUS COUNTER-ATTACKS, Germans Driven From One of Occupied Trenches and Ousted From Communicating Line in Great Fight Both Sides Lose Heavily Prussian and Pomeranian Troops in Bitter Fighting French Bring Up 51 Divisions Against Germans in the Meuse Sector. London, May 8, 3 :32 p. m. Prince Von Buelow, former German imperial chancellor has been summoned to headquarters headquar-ters by Emperor William, according to a dispatch to the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company from The Hague. His visit, adds the dispatch, is said to be of great political significance. London, May 8, 11: 25 a. m. The French bark Marie Molinos was sunk y a submarine on May 3. All the eighteen members of her crew have been landed. The Marie Molines was reported on her arrival at Nantes, France, on March 24 from Chile. She was built in 1 899, of . 1 ,946 tons gross and was owned at Havre. London, 7:05 p. m. It is reported that the steamship CjTnric is sinking. v The Cymric sailed on April 29 from New York, for Liverpool. Liver-pool. The Cymric has been in the service of the British government gov-ernment for some time. She had on board no passengers on her last trip. The Germans are continuing the furious offensive at Verdun which I gained them important ground both i i east and -west of the Meuse yesterday. ; They made no further advances during dur-ing their attacks of last night, how-ever, how-ever, Paris declares, and Sunday night French attacks drovethem from one of ihe occupied trenches south of Haudremont Near Hill 304, north- west of the fortress, the Germans i were ousted from a communication ' trench occupied during yesterday's drive. London reports the sinking by a sub- ' marine on May 3, of the French bark Ivlarie Molines, of 1,946 tons. There were no casualties among the crew. Washington advices that a new .note to Germany has been vlrtual- i y prepared and will probably go for- ; ward today. Paris, May 8, 12:30 p. m. Fighting rj of great violence continued last night b on the Verdun front. Furious German I i ; attacks near Hill 304 were broken by the French, the war office announced : today. The losses of the Germans are des-cnibed des-cnibed as extremely heavy. ' The French attacked east of Hill' ; 304 and drove the Germans from a j communication trench, which they! ; r penetrated yesterday. 1 : Bast of the. Meuse, In a series ot ' '' night engagements, the Germans were i driven from a trench south of Haudre-1 ? ; mont, which they occupied yesterday 1 and thirty men, Including two officers, were captured. Other developments of yesterday f are described textually as follows: "The night passed quietly on the re. mainder of the front except In the re gion of the wood of Remleres and the ft wood of Joury, west of Pont-A-MouB. Iison, where our artillery was very ac tive. "Two German aeroplanes have been brought down as a result of aerial en-counters en-counters in the region of Verdun. One of them fell not far from Ornes and Y the other, seriously damaged, was compelled to land south of pannes." ', 'i Berlin, May 8, wireless to Say- ; Vjiie.jn the recent fighting on tho -' Vordun front the Germans have turned an entire system of trenches i ,on tho northern slope of hill 304, the r. war office announced today. ( "Western front: The operations I rwest of the Meuse (Verdun front) dur-f dur-f ing recent days have been carried out principally by brave Pomeranian i (troops. They were attended by great difficulties, but, with moderate losses, wore successful. Notwithstanding the t tenacious defense and furious counter 1 attacks of the enemy, the Germans took an entire system of trenches on the northern slope of hill 30-1. Tho German lines reached the top of the iheight. Tho enemy suffered extraor- dlnarily heavy losses, so that only 40 -unwounded officers and 1,280 soldiers were captured by us. Attacks by the enemy on our positions on the western west-ern slope of the hill were repulsed everywhere with heavy loss. Bitter Fighting East of Meuse. "East of the Meuse, on t both sides of Thiaumont farm, here was bitter fighting. The enemy, along with other troops, employed negroes in the fighting east of tho farm. The attack at-tack broko down with 300 men made pprlsoners. In tho engagements men-tioned men-tioned fresh French troops were recog. nlzed. In tho Mouse sector the enemy has employed 51 divisions, including divisions which were used a second time after being brought up to full strength. This means fully twice the forces put in action by the Germans, who are making the attack. "On the remainder of the from there wece.xvo4inportant developme- . UaateMl aside from successful enterprises carried out by patrols in the district of Tiepval and Llrey. "After a battle In the air, two French biplanes which were over Cote De Froideterre fell to earth in flames." There are about 12,000 men in a division, di-vision, so that according to the German Ger-man statement, the French have employed em-ployed more than 600,000 men In tho battle of Verdun. It has been generally gen-erally believed that the number of troops used by the Germans was much in excess of the 300,000 or so indicated in-dicated in today's official report. Berlin, May 8, Wireless to Sayville. There is little activity on the Russian Rus-sian and Italian fronts and the situation situ-ation is unchanged, the official Austrian Aus-trian reports of .May 7 says. nn |
