NO RESPITE TO GERMANS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 152, 30 June 1916, Page 5

NO RESPITE TO GERMANS.

CEASELESS AHD TERRIBLE BOMBAhMEfaT. Received June 29, it).25 p.m. LOJNDO.N, June 29. Correspondents m. tlie British front state heavy shelling on of the German lines lias been in progress since the 26th. if the enemy was in douot as to the formidab.e character of the .British artillery or our willingness to use ammunition, that doubt must have been readily dispelled. The British object is simple and terrible, it is to kill the Germans in large numbers; to save our man-power; destroy German batteries; break defensive works; blow up ammunition stores; bring down balloons; bombard men in communication trenches, billets and rest camps;

and generally to cause the destruction of the enemy’s offensive powers. The German reply thus far has been slignt and ineffective. We seem to he working havoc and desolation to the extent of the range of our guns along the whole front. A certain village was used as billets for the local headcjuaiters. That village to-day does not exist. Kven the wood where it nestled is gone. The boom of the guns n practically ceaseless on tlio Loos salient.