THE FRENCH VICTORY AT VERDUN
The Crown Prince leaves Pepper Hill to occupy a second line of defence prepared beforehand.
The French have achieved a splendid victory before Verdun.
The capture of the strongly fortified position of Poivre Ridge was decisive in its effect upon the fighting along the whole line. The ridge was turned, and when the Germans, abandoning everything in their flight, found their retreat cut off, they surrendered in hundreds.
Times Correspondent, December 17, 1916.
