Paris, Mar. 6. The line on which the French are so brilliantly holding up the Germans is the first of three lines covering Verdun. It starts from Vacherauville, crosses Poivre Ridge and Douaumont Plateau and in-eludes the villages of Vaux and Damloup, forming practically a rectangle over seven kilometres deep.
The Germans have wrecked regiment after regiment on this solid mass of defences.
Amsterdam, Mar. 6.
An official communique issued in Benn admits the evacuation of a portion of the ground won" at Thiaville in Lorraine "before the massed encircling fire of the enemy.""
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