SOLDIERS' LETTERS
GERMAN VIEWS OF INCIDENTS London, November 26. !A Gorman soldier's diary, referriiiE to the effect's of shell fire, states: "Wlien shells are dropping in front, behind, to the right and to the left ; to remain in expectation of death or injury without being able to make any resistance, to hear the screams of the wounded who cannot, receive attention in the narrow trenches, is a sensation appreciable only by those who havo experienced it.""HELL HAD OPENED OUT." Another, who retreated under terrible shell and rifle fire, says: "You could imagine that hell had opened out, and was pouring firo from a thousand craters." .VILLAGES LIKE SLAUGHTERHOUSES. : A Bavarian non-commissioned, officer writes: "The villages are in ruins and are like slaughterhouses. Dead horses and bodies of men torn to pieces, lying in pools of blood, form a picture of horror. The enemy's shell tire is hellish. Through all the cries of the, wounded even the bravest trembles. Men tell tbeir rosaries continually. Only tho One above can help vs." —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" sendees. >
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 7
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175SOLDIERS' LETTERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 7
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