Paris, Mar. 5.
The battle at Verdun raged furiously throughout the whole of yesterday, but the evening found the position of the adversaries unchanged. The enemy continued his} maximum efforts at the village of Douaumont. He tried every expedi ent and "frightfulness" but was powerless against the heroic resistance offered by the French troop:
The losses of the Germans are most disproportionate to their ex-) penditure of energy and far exceed those of the French, whose reserves in men and munitions are ample for all emergencies.
The two days' onslaught of this, the second phase of the battle, have not been marked by the slightest advance of the German forces. Moreover, the enemy has no longer the advantage of surprise while the) ground has been so torn up by the} ceaseless bombardment that it ecannot be organized scientifically. The German survivors are suffering from fatigue while the fresh troops brought up are demoralized by the
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