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Show i! GERMANS ARE ID I ATMIII f( ft Kaiser Plans to Sicken the Eng-" Eng-" ft lish With a Great Flood j ft of Wounded. Mj ' Paris, April 2S. Heavy troop move- K- meuts and strong concentrations be- K bind the German lines reported by p air scouts indicate tonight that the in- . terlude in the battle of Verdun is fast fS'TK ncaring an end. Two sharp bombard- t ViL ments on the front north of the fort- vp ress took place today. One attained 9D its greatest intensity against the H French positions In Malancourt wood H and the other was carried out with r considerable violence against the Pep- ,- per hill-Douaumont front. Hf While some military critics here K hold the opinion that the kaiser's Ver- fc dun offensive has been brought to a , definite bait, and that trench warfare, H gradually decreasing in intensity, is K all that is in prospect, other well-in- m formed quarters believe that a great K new drive, in which the 500,000 fresh P troops reported recently brought up B will be thrown forward, is imminent. K This smash, it is thought, will be do- K- , livered simultaneously with a mighty m blow against the sectors held by the m British. "It is the kaiser's intention, it B Is reliably reported, to sicken the m British of war by smashing at their K lines with such force as to cause them B gieat losses. In view of the Insh B 'roubles and the organized opposition B lo conscription, the German ejperor Hj is said to believo that the sight of M sreat numbers of wounded daily being B brought back from the front will H quench Britain's enthusiasm for bat- K tie and lead to an early peace. B ' Throughout the night and today the infantry of both armies at Verdun re- B raalned Inactive. French aerial squad- B rons, however, engaged in further suc- K cessful bombardments, while individ- S& ual flyers added to the German air JK losses. rggP "The -feigned attacks at Verdun fc ' yesterday are an indication that the Rt German blow is spent," says the Echo de "Paris. "General PetaJn Is complete Ut master of the situation, and though B the Germans are likely to continue B sporadic activity, designed to fasten K our reserves in tbe Verdun region, at- S? tacks against the British front may jR now be expected, thdugh it is likely 1K the heaviest blow will be against Riga ;K by land and sea, with an advance on Dvinsk." B Joseph Relnach, the official war B historian, says: .B "The German army is still strong, B but its command is weakening. The H staff does not know which way to B turn. That the denouement is ap- B pioaching is evident from several un- B mistakable signs. "We are at the bc- , H? ginning of tho end." |