NEW FRONT BOMBARDED.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 June 1917, Page 6

NEW FRONT BOMBARDED.

SEARCHING GERMAN FIRE. I British Headquarters, June 8. To-day the Germans have turned on to our advanced troops all the guns which they withdrew yesterday. They first searched the trenches methodically with heavy howitzer shells, working along them from front to rear front, and from flank to flank. About three o'clock in the afternoon numbers of German troops were seen collecting at various points. Our barrage came down on them about 10 minutes later. Three times the German field guns suddenly opened an intense bombardment, the latest being just before dusk. Behind this the Germans attacked. To-day's bombardment was at one time the heaviest ever experienced by Australian troops. Men of all the latest reinforcements showed themselves magnificently equal to the old hands. Stretcher-bearers, runners, and Lewis gunners all exhibited exactly the same spirit. During the height of the bombardment an officer saw a man exposing himself recklessly. "Come down, you fool," he said; "you'll be killed for a certainty." The reply was "I cannot, sir, I have - a wounded man here, and I cannot leave him;" and he brought that wounded man through by some miracle.