BATTLE INCIDENTS ON THESOMME
A DRAMATIC STORY Australian-liew Zoaland Cable.Association. (Rec. August 30, 5.40 p.m.) . London, August 29. Mr. Philip Gibbs, in the "Daily Chronicle," tells a dramatic story of the repulse of the Prussian Guards at Ihiepval. "Tho Wiltshires and Worcesters- discovered tlis Prussians'gathering for a counterattack. It was neccssaJT to send runners to the rear to warn tho commanders. Several messongers tried, but all died. ■ Finally ono, by sheer luck, lost his direction, staggered amid shell and smoke amongst tne craters, and found himself on the edge of the German trenches, which were crowded with''Prussians with fixed bayonets. He turned back, survived the German barrage, tho roar liues unscathed, and delivered his message to the heavy batteries, which, in. the officers' words, 'would smash tho German lines in thres shakes.' . The Prussians wero caught in a storm of shell, anil their trench was filled with mangled bodies. Their counter-attacks thereafter had ' no chance." '
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 5
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155BATTLE INCIDENTS ON THESOMME Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2864, 31 August 1916, Page 5
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