BATTLEFIELD INCIDENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3570, 3 October 1916, Page 5

BATTLEFIELD INCIDENTS.

LONDON, October 1. Mr Phillip Giblis,, writing in the "Daily Chronicle," says: — " Some of the New Army men describe thoir adventures with the enemy at, Thiepval as a most devilish, experience. The onemy took six hours to get his barrage lixed, .as he was not' quite sure of his own soldiers' whereabouts. The barrage was colossal when it came. Many of our men lay about wounded. It was difficult to get them to safety. The work of digging in at night on the captured line was a, bravo job.

" In the Hessian trench a private, soldier met two Gorman officers and '22 men. He emptied his revolvers at, them, and then picked up German rifles and fired at the. group, who fled. The British soldier chased them, picking thorn oft' with abandoned rifles until only one remained \mwoumied. Ho brought him in as a prisoner." "The Times" correspondent with the British Headquarters states that the Canadian troops, lighting on, the, former Australian front, found a shell' hole far ahead of tho old front lino/in which uo.ro three Australians, two of \v,hom wore wounded: They had pushed in to-the enemy's country alone. A shell wounded two of them, and the third dragged his comrades into the shell hole. It was impossible to como out in daylight, so the unwounded man each night stole ant to fetch water bottles and rations from the German •lftad lying near. He nursed his comrades, keeping himself and his patients alive for nine days. One of the wounded men is doing well, but tho other unfortunately is septic.