THE CASUALTY RATE.
LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE
LONDON, October 7. The Press Bureau states that, an " authoritative source " explains thai the comparatively small casualties in the recent Somme fighting has been due to the fact that experience has taught the British troops to advance under five oi; their artillery without: rushing so fast as to tiash into their own barrage or so cautiously a,s to los< the value of the momentum of attack. Tliis advance in knowledge is due to the constant and generous exchange of ideas and discoveries between the British and the armies. All experience is immediately pooled. After Martinpuich had ; been taken the unburied Germans far outnumbered the British. ; Upon the point of the relative cxponsiveness of attack and defence it is interesting to note that for every three British casualties suffered
at ■Thiepvn.l oi all kinds, we took prisoner two Germans. The simultaneous reduction in the casualty of both the British and French armies proves the value of the Allied research, work.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3575, 9 October 1916, Page 5
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165THE CASUALTY RATE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3575, 9 October 1916, Page 5
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