TORNADO OF SHELLS.
' HOTHING COtrU) UPTEU" ? GERMAN CALtS IT MTTRDER. ■t. {Times-and Sydney Sun Servjces-X " . (Keceived 8.30 ajn.j" T: { : Itoch; IS. . "Eje-witness" with, the Brittti Headquarters says--that' German • prisoners aver that they had never expenehced a. bombardment similar to: that which preceded . the assault upon - Xeiiye ■ 'Many-men-were-.taking- refuge ia j ithe dug-oute when the British reached the trenches. A\ wourided Prussian officer of the truculen^-iype-exclaimed: 'TToii 'don't fight,-you murder. Sly . regiment never had a chance from the-firstl,JTiere was a ehelj every ten vardiTend-flothing could live in such a fire!" The Germans-are still confident and optimistic. . Thgjßrittsh.ers attacked with tie" greatest :daeh after days and nights 'of incessant 'fighting; and displayed very tittle sign of the ' strain under.{Which: t'hev'jhad lab.oured.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 5
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