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CURIOUS ENEMY TACTICS.'-.
LONDON, October 3. Mr Phillip Gibbs writos: —" Tho German plans on the Somme are puzzling, and look as if the enemy were making a gradual withdrawal, masked by sharp counter blows to check tho quickness of our advance."Not many Germans were left alive in the first and second trenches defending the old monastery at . Eaucourt. They were heaped" with corpses killed during- the 12 hours' bombardment. Most of the. enemy ran at the approach of the British bayonets. The Germans' appear to be strong at lo Sars and at 'a little quadrilateral redoubt near by. The enemy's losses have been fearsome, and the men taken prisoner cry out against the massacre, blaming their commanders, their air service, and their artillery for their awful state."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3572, 5 October 1916, Page 5
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