"THE ENGINEER SUPREME."
LONDON, August 1
An officer or-the Engineers, in a vivid picture of the Dardanelles warfare, says:—"The engineer is supreme. Every,man is an engineer. We sally forth every day, going'from oiir 'dugouts' to view the same old enemy, trenches 60 yards away through our periscopes, of which we have thousands. There. is never a sign of a man/ but we see many shovelfuls of earth going over the parapet" and the sap-head day after day, steae|ly .; advancing towards us. There' is '.great excitement when hew approaches are broken out. This is the battle all along the line. At some points wo are at very close grips, and air we dare do is to throw Btones like schoolboys—but the stones are bombs."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8206, 2 August 1915, Page 5
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