FROM THE WEST.
Biach Thom s’ Views
(Australian &N.Z. Gable AB.oea.i.m and Iteutir). LONDON, March 5. Mr Bcnch-Thomas has returned from the Somme after a lengthy absence, ana has stated that the main change is that the British are lighting better, and the Germans worse. During the trench warfare the Hr item have certainly inflicted heavy losses. A battalion at Loos claims that oux our snipers accounted for tliirty-eighfc Germans in a week, while there were no British casualties. Tile. Germans on the Anere promised an impregnable line of concrete dugouts and cast iron invisible emplacements, while the British grovel in water-logged earth works. Nevertheless their retreat is depressing the German morale, and the hisc phase is finished.. The Germans reached, a line on liign ground north ol Gommecourt-Translov, and already the British guns are bombarding it, and fires behind the lines indicate that the second phase Is coming.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1917, Page 1
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