Paris, March 21.
Newspapers state that most reliable circles affirm that the German offensive at Verdun has been definitely crushed.
Paris, March 92.
Alexeiff, Generalissimo of the Russian Armies, on behalf of the Tsar of Russia, has telegraphed to Generalissimo Joffre expressing His Majesty's warmest admiration for the French defence at Verdun.
"The Tsar is confident that the French army will bring their savage enemy to his knees." Generalissimo Alexeiff adds that the Russian army merely swaits orders to engage the common enemy.
Paris, March 21.
The official communique this afternoon revorts:—
Several times during the night Germans renewed their attempts between Avocourt and Mtlancourt, where the bombardment with shells of large calibre continues uninterruptedly. Their attacks are ac-
818 companied by jets of liquid fire. In spite of the heavy losses inflicted by our fire, the enemy was able to capture, after a struggle foot by foot, the southeastern portion of Malancourt Wood known as Bois d'Avocourt. All the attempts made by the enemy to debouch from this wood failed.
There was calm elsewhere at Verdun.
An enemy raid northward of Boesinghe was immediately driven off.
The French batteries were very active on the outskirts of Cheppy Wood.
The official "communique this evening states There was grenade fighting in Argonne. The violent bombardment continued on the left bank of the Meuse, in the region of Malan-court. The Germans did not dare to make an attack in face of our artillery fire.
There was an intermittent bomment west of the Meuse and elsewhere. A French air-squadron dropped bombs on the stations of Dun-sur-Meuse and Audun.
London, March 91.
Sir Douglas Haig re-wee night we made " small raid against the hostile trenches near Mauquissart, accounting for a score of the enemy.
Early this morning the enemy attacked and entered a small post on the Somme. They were driven out, leaving an officer prisoner and two dead.
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