"ACCORDING TO PLAN.”
We have heard lately, whenever the Germans on the Western front have been driven back by our troops, that the retreat Avas “according to plan. ,; This is how it strikes our poet: We advanced (to the rear) in our best approved style; Our officers leading the van, The British pursued us for mile afte? mile, 'And Ave scuttled, “ according to plan. ” We blasted the houses, the rails and the roads— Of bridges, we left not a span; Our waggons were piled high Avith illgotten loads, For avc looted, “according to plan. The peasants whose homes we had turned into hells. Fled shrieking, and cursed as they ran ; We tore up the fruit trees, and poisoned the wells, And we did it “according to plan.” May God, Who doth shield us with His arm divine, The fires of His wrath again fan, Lost our enemies ever should cross o ’er the Ehine,
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 July 1917, Page 2
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