Following in a Central News dispatch from Basel, Switzerland:
"For some time, a rumor has been spreading among the troops that peace negotiations are about to begin, and this fact, coupled with the instinct of preservation which is constantly growing, is having a bad effect on the morale of the men. In the name of the Emperor, I declare that there cannot be any question of peace until we have crossed the Dvina. Soldiers, if you wish peace, seek it on the other side of the Dvina."

"FOURTH OF JULY"
PARIS, May - A powerful offensive war undertaken by the Germans last night to the east of Head Man's Hill, on the Verdun front. The attempt in personal was unsuccessful, the War Office report of this afternoon says but after a fierce hand-to-hand struggle, the attacking forces made their way into a portion of the village of Cumbres. At this point, the French are faced more than three divisions. German attacks on Fort Coudron, the corner-stone of the Verdun defenses, are said virtually to have failed. Notwithstanding the determination of their attacks and what is characterized as a most reckless expenditure of life, the Germans succeeded only in taking a small part of a trench."  West of the fort.
The statement follows:
"In the Champagne district, the Germans, by the use of pass, endeavored to occupy our lines at a point west of the Navarin farm. Our curtain of fire threw the enemy back to his trench." 