GERMANS HAVE LESS STOMACH FOR FIGHT
SPIRIT OF BRITISH BEGGARS j ; DESCRIPTION. { (Australian and N-Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Sept. 28, 2.10 p.m.} LONDON, Sept. 27. ! A Headquarters correspondent says:— We learned from the prisoners'that the Germans proposed to evaouate Combles at night, so our artillery 'barraged intensely all night across the line of retreat to prevent the German withdrawal, hence the enormous booty. J ' A prisonered German officer said, that j his officers could not get the . men to fight. The men retort that tile officers are shirking, going, to hospital on the smallest pretext. The correspondent adds that the enemy is showing., less and less stomach for fight, whilst the spirit of our men ■beggars description.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 28 September 1916, Page 1
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