NERVES AT VERDUN.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 July 1918, Page 5

NERVES AT VERDUN.

UNEASINESS IN LINES THAT FACE AMERICANS.

Mr H. J. Greenwall, the Loudon Daily Express correspondent with the American army in France, writes:— On the east bank of the Meuse, where I have been to-day, the enemy shows much uneasiness. He has practically removed all the troops fit for fighting. At night he keeps his front in the Verdun sector brilliantly lit with mimerous flares. He is also active with machine-guns and artillery, and there is a certain amount of aerial activity.

The morale of the French .and American troops in the Verdun sector is most admirable. It has heartened the French to see the American, batteries and convoys cf troops who have already "slipped into" the war, as a French soldier expressed himself to me.

Verdun stands as a.n everlasting mertforial 'of -'German failure* and Ithe troops holding the sector know that the Germans will fail against the British, French, and Americans on the Somnie as they failed on the Muese. The troops here are ready for anything and find great pleasure in the ever-increasing American preparations in the wilderness of devastated towns and villages. Grass already grows in the craters, and peach, pear, and apple trees blossom in abandoned orchards.