THE SOMME WEDGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 204, 4 October 1916, Page 3

THE SOMME WEDGE.

SOME DEVILISH EXPERIENCE! LONDON, Oct. 2. Mr Gibbs says that some of the new army men describe the entry of Thiepval as a most devilish experience. Tne enemy took six hours to get a barrage fixed, being not quite sure of their own soldiers' whereabouts. | The barrage was colossal when it came. Many or our men lay about wounded. It was difficult to get them to safety. Tne work of digging in at night on the captured line was a brave job. A correspondent at headquarters says that Canadian troops, fighting on the former Australian front found to. a shell hole far ahead of the old front line three Australians, two of whom were wounded. They had pushed into the enemy country alone: A shetr wounded two, and the third draggea his comrades to the shell hole. It was imposible to come out by day, ancr the unwounded man nightly stole out to fetch water bottles and rations from the German dead lying near. He nursed his comrades, keeping himself and the patients alive for nine days. One of the wounded men is doing wen, but the other unfortunately is septic.

In the Hessian trench a private soldier met two German officers and 22 men. He emptied a revolver at them, picked up German rifles and fired at the group, who fled. T.he Britisher chased them, picking them off wltn abandoned rifles until only one vremained unwounded. He brought him in a prisoner.