A BITTER PRICE.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 November 1917, Page 6

A BITTER PRICE.

PAID BY THE GERMANS. LONDON ,Nov 9. Reuter's correspondent at British Headquarters, writing last night j states that prisoners testify to the terrible effect of our artillery fire. The enemy lines were frequently rationless for two or 'three consecutive days. z As an example of the bitter price the Germans are paying for their desperate defence of the Passchendaele Ridge system, the corrspondent states that it has been ascertained that a company of Teserve infantry went in 80 strong, and came out with only one officer and four other ranks unwounded. In another case a battalion of Grenadiers, after concluding a spell of duty had only an adjutant and one man left. Tl\e correspondent gives another 1 interesting insight Into German mentality. In course of conversation a captured enemy officer, after saying that the breaking of Belgian neutrality was justified by necessity, added that his countrymen could not understand, now that the United States had entered the war, and we had nothing more to fear why the Allies should refuse to take advantage of the comparatively easy passage to the Rhine which the invasion of Holland would offer.