GERMAN PRISONERS' STORIES Of HORROR.
1 TOLD THEY -WERE ASSISTING IN FINAL VICTORY. REGIMENT WIPED OTTT SOUTH OF BEAUMONT. (Times ana Sydney Sun SerTlcee.) , PARIS, March 5. The Germans captured are prostrated and dazed by the awful ordeal through which they have passed. Many are nerve shaken and cry piteously. They give the most graphic details of various phases of the battle.- One regiment was ordered to advance over thick, sticky clay. The men stumbled and fell helplessly, , and mitrailleuses mowed them down. A. number of prisoners state that they were recalled from Serbia to Verdun, and told that they were assisting in the final victory. They went into battle full of confidence, theif ■■ Hjegnnent attaeJring tke crest of the ridge south,of Beenment, Half the. men s .urere TcUled, The Temaindereoon left the/furn§ee pf the FrenehL Moit of them fell/but a few were taken -prisoner '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 56, 6 March 1916, Page 5
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