BATTLE INCIDENTS ON THE SOMME

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2892, 3 October 1916, Page 7

BATTLE INCIDENTS ON THE SOMME

N A " MOST DEVILISH EXPERIENCE" Australian-Now Zealand Oabl« Assooiatioi (Rec. October 2, 5A5 p.m.) j London, October 1. Mr. Philip Gibbs writes: "Some o the New Army men describe -ffieir cntr '•' into Thiepval.as 'a most devilish oxperi enco,' Tho enemy took sis hours t< i get' their barrage fixed, as they weri 1 not quito sure of their own soldiers i whereabouts. That barrago was ; 3 colossal oiio when it came. Many o 3 our men lay about, wounded, and it wa: i difficult to got them to safety. The i work of digging in at night on th< ) captured lino was a brave job. "In the Hessian trench a privati soldier mot two German officers anc twenty-two men. He emptied his re j volver, and then picked up Germai: rifles and fired at tlio 1 group, who fled Tho Britisher chased, pioking them oil ! with their abandoned rifles, until onlj . one remained- unwounded. Ho broughl 1 him in as a prisoner." Three Australian Heroes. (The "Times.") (Rec. Ootpber'2, 5.45 p-m.)' London, October 1. "The Times'" correspondent af Headquarters states: "The Canadian troops, fighting on a former Australian front, found a shell hole far ahead of the old front line, -and in it three AusTwo were wounded. They had pushed into the enemy's country alone. A shell had wounded two, and the third man dragged his comrades into the shell hole. It was impossible to come out during the day without gottinc wounded. ' Bach night the unwounded man stole out to fetch water-bottles and rations from the German dead who were lying near. He nursed his comrades,, keeping himself and his patients alive for nine days. One of tho wounded men is doing well. The other, unfortunately,- has contracted septic poisoning.