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Show in j GERMANS TRY TO REGAIN GROUND Crown Prince Bringing Up Reinforcements to Renew Attack on Dead Man's Hill. CARNAGE IS FRIGHTFUL French Drive Back Enemy With Irresistible Counter-attack Germans Seem Indifferent In-different to Death-dealing Fire. Paris. April 12, 9:50 a. m. Whllo bringing up reinforcements to reBume their attack on Le Mort Homme, the Hill of the Dead Man, tho Germans are trying to recover tho ground gained gain-ed by the French In Caillette wooda and to tho north between Douaumont and Vaux. The French positions there described describ-ed an arc from a point south of the Fort Douaumont to the center of the village of Vaux and the front Is a little leBS than two miles in length. For three days the only actlonB on the east bank of the Meuse have been centered there with the habitual preparation pre-paration in heavily concentrated artillery artil-lery fire with a finishing touch In the form of a couple of hours of heavy shelling with suffocating and tear-provoking tear-provoking gas projectiles. After a bombardment with high ex plosives lasting eight hours and the use of gas for another hour or two the Germans would attack simultnn eously on two flanks. There waB no visible diminution in their courage and ardor; neither did the French show the slightest fatigue and tho consequence con-sequence is that the unprecedented carnage of the battle of Verdun goes on. Yesterday the whole front, beaten" by gas projedtiles, was overhung by a yellowish cloud of chlorine vapor which seemed to suspend from the sky. When the cloud lifted the Germans Ger-mans bounded forward seemingly indifferent in-different to the death dealing curtain of fire from tho French artillery. Some of them got through it but only to find the French had abandoned the first line trenches to allow the gas cloud to dissipate. German reinforcements were sent to fortify the trenches, but before they reached the line the French came back with an lrrislstlble counter attack at-tack and In a few minutes drove the Germans out from tho fortifications where they had penetrated the trenches. |