UNDER ENGLISH FIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1916, Page 2

UNDER ENGLISH FIRE.

GERMAN'S IMPRESSIONS. 'HORROII ,','ITHOUT 1 ENU.' Of the British onensive that tt«3 ''virtually ended" and of the battle tlrnt was "all Inu .'/on" a month ago Baron von JJusseldorf, a special correspondent of the Duss-eldorf General-An-zeiger, writes a shuddering account from the trenches on the Somme front at the beginning of September. "You cannot imagine," he says, "you cannot grasp what human beings to-day can withstand i.. this heaped-up horror-without-end. Tivo long months the battle 011 the Sommo has lasted, and troop-, that fought in the deadliest sector; round Verdun declare that there it was by ooniparison mild! "Under the enemy's artiJlei'j* fire, largely from guns of "in. tu llin., \r" lie or cquat .just .rhero we ..re, oftc:. crowded together n a closely as lead--:ol'.?iers ... J .lioir bo:.. V.\ wonr'.e: H'licIher the shelter v.-'.ll ftanu ..nother he;'.vy whether thai last light «::■ plosior. ....' pr.s, wbptlie:- .vs shall ever bs abh to Cad lo '.:. c front trencj ... u: il v. . j hal. iavc to •:, I:ir vikiernr". of -jheil-c-raters v-'hea v- hav. :a Lrctu: i!ii Infantry J[: frort o. ...? .;. a sheer v.u:i, but v • have lr. --old oat in it, preT^J-j l. on;- bodie- ;h>r i:ito the frr - moot of i-votet-Uon that .cumins, .ud c-fte:i half aoverc,. wit! dead ~nd wji.ndc.l tcir.i'ttdi'.. -Ji. !i«avr nor il .iii'?. ovcrcaar-fV i:.r.'o:' . -i'>. <ji.:' ■, " it wore I: 1 ' a i.'.i! >.'i'pcn..atior. ' iiatire, i:-cn-Hbil^y to dl V"'ir.->; '.lite tiwvglt: ,>a.S5 throiicli one': ."tin:!. i ' t -iid h;-.'?: 'Hero j-_ t ' : iH , i; '

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