THE FRENCH ADVANCE.
A BAVARIAN CAPTAIN'S STORY, Received 5-5 p.m., July 3. LONDON, July 9. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent says a Bavarian captain who was taken prisoner says that everything possible was done to strengthen the defences. The number of machine-guns was tripled. It was expected there would be an attack on June 28th For three days more the bombardment continued with increasing violence, and our mo ral and physical resistance began to diminish. We counted 900 shells a minute. The French must have discovered a new explosive. I have nev er seen such havoc.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 10 July 1916, Page 5
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96THE FRENCH ADVANCE. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 10 July 1916, Page 5
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