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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1916
Page
12
German soldiers describe devastating losses at Verdun with heavy artillery and machine gun fire. They recount a March 2 assault near Fort Douaumont, severe casualties, and the collapse of their efforts as French resistance and renewed artillery support halted the attack.
In Woevre district southeast of Verdun German forces push French back from Fresnes, claiming 700 prisoners. French artillery shells German positions in Meuse hills and in the Argonne forest, while upper Alsace trenches are said to be captured. Sixteen French planes drop shells on Metz Sablons. Russian warships bombard Black Sea towns and report progress with the capture of Riza, east of Trebizond, as Russians advance in Persia taking Senneh near Kermanshah. Dniester and Bessarabian artillery activity rises, signaling possible new campaign. Fifty German warships with trawlers Zeppelins and submarines seen off the North Holland coast near Ymuilden.
Berlin cites successful counterattacks near Maisons de Champagne and Frees Fresnes with captures of 58 officers and 3277 men, plus 10 cannons. It notes at Verdun only limited enemy activity and claims Turkish and Balkan fronts with minimal action.
British official statement reports a mine near the Ypres Comines railroad caused no damage. Artillery bombarded the area, a small mine east of Laventie interrupted enemy mining, and fighting with trench mortars near Grenay caused damage to enemy defenses. The enemy shelled our positions east of Vermelles. Elsewhere nothing occurred.
Strong French counter attack recaptured most of Corbeaux Wood from the German forces. In Champagne French forces regained a trench section lost March 6. A group of 16 French planes dropped 124 shells on Sablons station at Metz. Germans advance west of the Meuse near Verdun and gain ground in the Woevre. Russians reported capturing Riza on the Black Sea and Senneh in Persia.
Russian official bulletin reports capture of Riza on the Black Sea coast and Senneh in Persia. It adds progress along the Riga and Dvinsk sectors against German forces, including repulsed assaults near Ilukst and near the Kovel-Rovno line, with continued Turkish pressure on the Caucasian front.
Austrian report from Vienna states archduke Joseph Ferdinand forces pushed the enemy from an entrenched position near Karpiloseka and later drove Russians from a trench 1000 metres long northwest of Tarnopol. Artillery action along the Dniester and Bessarabian frontier grows lively.
Emperor William awarded the commander of the German commerce raider Moewe the Order Pour le Merite in a ceremony, per a Reuters dispatch from Amsterdam dated March 8.
Eben Hinckley of Dorchester was elected grand secretary for the 29th time at the 29th annual session of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts of the New England Order of Protection held in Springfield today.
Paris reports a strong French counter attack drove Germans from most of Corbeaux Wood leaving them only on the eastern edge. The War Office also notes renewed bombardments at Douaumont and Hardaumont redoubts with French counter measures in the Argonne and Meuse sectors.
Paris March 8 German prisoners report enormous Verdun losses from infantry assaults since February 25. They say two-thirds of their battalions were wiped out. an officer had promised artillery would clear the way for easy French line occupation, a claim they now doubt.
East Boston physician Dr William R Morrison son of Dr William A Morrison of 86 Princeton street sails for France last Monday aboard the California to serve with the Harvard unit and do Red Cross work for the allies. He was appointed by President Lowell and granted leave of absence.
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