Paris, Feb, 26.
The official communique issued this evening states:—North of Verdun an increasing bombardment continues east and west of the Meuse.
The French are replying to all attacks by vigorous counterattacks.
All fresh attacks by the Germans in the region of Champneuville and the Poivre Hill, where we are solidly established, were repulsed.
A desperate struggle is raging round the Douaumont Fort, which is an advanced element of the old defensive organization of the fortress of Verdun.
We again reached and passed beyond the position, which the Germans captured in the morning after several fruitless and very costly assaults, and all enemy attempts to force us back have failed.
enemy's hangars and depots heavy artillery bombarded northeast of St. Mihiel.
A German counter-attack on the salient we captured south of St. Marie-4-Py in Champagne was repulsed, the Germans losing 340 prisoners,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.