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helping a French wounded soldier.jpg. [online] Available at: <http://wereldoorlog1418.nl/battleverdun/kortverdun/index.htm#03> [Accessed: 24 February 2016]
Via the waves of
wireless press,
Came a version
from the other side -
Two days after an
initial German
Push, news finally
reached Berlin.
In content of a report
from main
Headquarters,
told how from east
Of Souchez, their
enemy's trenches
Fell, damaged by German
mines.
With Souchez success
brought
Rewards of three
machine guns -
To capture prisoners;
348 soldiers,
Along with 11 French
officers.
Meanwhile upon
the Meuse Hills,
On the 21 day of February, saw duel
Of artillery
along the Meuse's east
River bank, in a plan
of strategy.
A French hope had
been to hold
Onto that rivers
edge - seen to be
Where they had
worked to fortify
A hold for over a
year and a half.
In that situation
the French would
Suffer catastrophe
from German
Artillery attack;
close to communes
Of Azannes and
Consenvoye.
With fated
villages in a fortressed
Area, defences of
German held out
North of Woevre -
all to add to their
Success by second
day of Verdun.
Across a three
mile push inwards,
Bois des Caures was taken; troops
Closed in on Flabas village - later
To take the
village of Haumont.
German successes
in upper Alsace
Lay in eastward
attacks of Heidwiler -
Capturing an
allied position, half mile
In length and 400
metres in depth.
The victory for Germany
had totaled
3000 prisoners
and material claims -
To then fail 23
February, by French
Resistance at Bois de l'Herbebois.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. The
Verdun Battle - German Version. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 24 February 1916. P.9. Col.2.
Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12169037/Daily-Telegraph-February-24-1916.html
[Accessed: 24 February 2016].
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