Battle of Verdun

LONDON, Feb. 24, 1916 (UP) - Under the eyes of the Kaiser, the German crown prince and his army are smashing their way steadily toward the fortress of Verdun, in France. They are less than eight miles away.

The 101st day of Verdun, the world's greatest battle, today found the crown prince rushing into action fresh legions amid the roar of hundreds of great guns west of the Meuse.

NEW YORK, May 31, 1916 (UP) - Today, the 101st day of the battle of Verdun, sees the Germans slowly but continuously creeping upon the great French fortress, which in defensive strength is second only to Paris itself.

BUDAPEST, via Amsterdam, May 31, 1916 (UP) - "So long as the responsible statesmen of England and France think as they speak, there is no chance of peace," said Count Tisza, Hungarian prime minister, and "strong man" of Austria-Hungary, in an interview with the United Press today.

BERLIN, July 1, 1916 (UP) - The second year of the war will be known in Germany's military history as the year of political strategy. The moves of the military chess board of Europe have been dictated by international relations. Fighting was framed to help the diplomats.

ROME, July 1, 1916 (UP) - Italy to-day is fully satisfied with the results of the first year of the Austro-Italian war.

PETROGRAD, July 1, 1916 (UP) - "The Russian army is twice as big as it was when the war started, is better fed, equipped and munitioned. Militarily, we are able to carry our part of the load."

PARIS, July 1, 1916 (UP) - Within two years, despite the handicap of maintaining her own unequal end in the world's greatest war, France has built up a military machine that to-day the French contend is superior to the organization Germany was forty years in preparing.

LONDON, July 3, 1916 (UP) - Success in modern warfare isn't measured in terms of real estate.

LONDON, Sept. 28, 1916 (UP) - There is no end of the war in sight.

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY AT VERDUN, Dec. 18, 1916 (UP) - A roar that rocked the earth and sky, a seething volcano of fire and smoke - and an advance of clockwork precision every man abreast his fellow soldier along a front of five miles - this was Friday's French victory at Verdun.

PARIS, Dec. 27, 1916 (UP) - During the closing three months of 1916, three events took place in France which demonstrated as never at any previous period of war the apparently inexhaustible resources of France's military genius and strength, the equally inexhaustible resources of her financial and economic energy, and the absolutely unshaken determination both of her army and her civil population to continue the war to a successful close.