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MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1916
NUMBER 131
TOLUME Y.
VERDUN DRIVE CONTINUES
GERMAN LOSS APPALLING
MILITARY CRITICS THINK THE DRIVE AGAINST
VERDUN IS NOT A FEINT
MAY THRUST THROUGH AISNE
German Forces Gain Ground Near Verdun But Lose
to British Along Northern End of
Western Front
By the United Press Associations.
PARIS, Mar. 3—A renewal of the
German attack upon Verdun convinced
the military experts that the Kaiser's
offensive is the real thing. The cost is
ghastly. The German dead are strewn
across the woods and hills so thickly
that from a distance the fields seem
covered with a strange green growth.
Because of the German preparations
and shelling, the critics believe the
drive against Verdun is a
They are mindful, though, of the possibil
ity of a sudden thrust through
Champagne and Aisne.
DOUAUMONT IN DISPUTE
LONDON, Mar. 3—The village of
Douaumont, four miles northeast of
Verdun, is now in the hands of the
Germans. An official statement from
Berlin today claimed the capture of
the village with a thousand prisoners.
Paris officially admitted that the
enemy had reached the town.
Berlin dispatches say that the Ger
man forces are now driving west and
southwest from Douaumont. Paris re
ported that the Germans have suffered
cruel losses, and that the
  The French claim to have repulsed German attacks east of the village of Vaux. German artillery is bombarding the territory southeast of Verdun, and French fire across Woevre plain prevents the Teutons from advancing. German airmen have bombarded Verdun. 