ARTILLERY FIRE
DEVASTATING EFFECTS By Telegraph—Piete Association—Oopyrlghl Paris, October 22. A cor respond out who visited the Champagne for three days and went over tlie ground recently won by the French says that as the result, of tho artillery fire a largo area was absolutely swept of vegetation. Over threo million shells were dropped on a small district in three days, excavating pits from five to seventy feet deep, somo of them 160 feet wide. The whole country-sido is covored with white powder, a Tesult of tho explosions. Many German prisoners arc insane. Tho French were engaged for days on clearing up tho battlefield. Excavations in searoh of war stores revealed dead Germans by the hundred together, as if a now Pompeii had been unearthed. The Germans had woven the whole placo with barbed wire. The French had spent two months preparing for the attack. Some of the trenches wore wido enough to accommodate two horsoa. Tho advanco was mado with comparatively small losses.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2601, 25 October 1915, Page 5
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164ARTILLERY FIRE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2601, 25 October 1915, Page 5
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