TERRIFIC BRITISH FIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1916, Page 5

TERRIFIC BRITISH FIRE.

FRONT A SEA OF MUD. , ' London, November 7. ( Mr. Beach Thomas, correspondent foi the Daily Mail on the Western front, writes: — The Germans held on in the mud, fighting skilfully and determinedly before the main line of defences at 1-a Transloy and Bapaimic, using picked troops and ingeniously extemporised tracks for the speedy bringing up of the reserves. Xo Man's Land was a terrible spectacle, being covered with thousands of German bodies—men killed in the vain counter-attacks. Thousands more were knocked out by shell-fire. _ 1 There was incessant British artillery, fire of all calibres, including high velocity naval shells with a iiftecn-miles range. } Our superior observation confined thfli German artillery reply mainly to night time. . ' The whole front was a sea of mud, resembling chemical glue, smearing and adhering to the troops wherever they, were moving. The Dusseldorf Gazette, supporting al mass levy, forecasts that the ultimata decision will lie reached nex-i year. It urges that the Germans should work incessantly, doing their utmost to surpass the British efforts, which had been achieved mainly through Lloyd George, whose organising genius has enabled tha British to overtake the German superiority in artillery, and to now rapidly, approach tho German airsh,ip advantages.