Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 51, 30 June 1915, Page 6

Germany

“BENT, BUT "imftßQKEtl.” A VERITABLE HELL OF DEATH. ■. ■ . [UNrtim’Plibui Ausooxatiow. ] a .■ ■ London, .June ’29. Herr Wiegand, in a message to the New York World from the headqiiaiters of Prince Rupprecht’s army near Souchez, says:— -ill‘‘Germaflyfs wall of iron and blood between Arras and Ypres has been bent slightly, hut is unbroken, and not even cracked under General Joffre’s terrific 1 battering and ramlike attacks. GeiiehU Joffre’s offensive ;i§ rapidly waiving. It Jed to a deluge of blood and'little else to-day. I looked into the verttalde hell of death, as the Germans call the stretch of three or four miles between Neuville and the Lorette heights. Nowhere . else has there been such a merciless combat and such bloodshed to the square yard. Prince Rupprecht and General Luchow are engaged in, the greatest defensive struggle of the war, holding hack the- French and English, while matters ace settling with the Russians.” The general continued . “Perhaps there are ten thousand unburied or partly btiried dead between the Lorette heights, Neuville and the Labrynth. The smell is pestilential. Our has thrown creosote and quicklime on the nearest trenches, and ‘both sides have reached an unspoken agreement to bury those nearest at night time. Words fail to portray the nature of the;'scene day or night. W r hite eyes are staring out of faces burned coal Mack by the sun and piles of bodies smoke in places. As the days and weeks pass they shrivel and shrink until they resemble little heaps of ; old clothes and silent heaps, : They are more weird by moonlight than by daylight.” Then general added: “I wish those causing thib Wav with indifference could put up with this hell a little while.” , . I