WAR’S DESOLATIONS.
OH THE SOMME. TOWNS IN RUINS. THE COUNTRY A WASTE. Australian and N.Z. Cable. Received August 19, 9 a.m. Copenhagen, August 18. Yon Weigan, in the New York World, states that there is appalling devastation and desolation for miles behind the, German line on the Somme. The Allies are not shelling towns more than necessary, yet Roye is partially in ruins, Peronne is burning, and Baupaume is a picture of destruction. Hundreds of inhabitants refuse to leave and are living in cellars. Many German bomb proofs are thirty feet underground. He saw a subterranean hospital below the officers’* quarters.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 5
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101WAR’S DESOLATIONS. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11650, 19 August 1916, Page 5
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