PHILIP GIBBS’ ACCOUNT.
ENEMY SUFFER. SEVERELY. LONDON, -May 6
Mr Phillip Gibbs writes that nearly a week has passed without a German attack. The enemy are reorganising their divisiois, anil preparing for another offensive. Ho has many divisions in Flemish fields and on the Somme, also divisions crowded in reserve, but there are few roads lor marching, and not much room for masses to assemble. There is little cover in the trenches and dug-outs, so we pound many Germans to death.
Reliefs coming up get wildly mixed with divisions returning. There is mad confusion during the night in the ranks of the marching men, and transport columns, while the. Red Cross convoys are overloaded with wounded. These things are upsetting the plans of the High German command, but they will continue to pour in a flood'or infantry in this great gamble. The only chance of the onslaught stopping is that the German people may be horrified and rise in uassion against the spilling of soldiers’ blood.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1918, Page 2
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