MILLION SHELLS FIRED BEFORE ADVANCE.
GERMANS TRANSFERRED FROM RUSSIAN FRONT. PBISONEKS GLAD THEIK_ZIGHTIHG DATS AXE OVER. (Received 8.35 a.m.) PARIS, -September 28. The British »nd French, before Saturday's advance, poured an inccaeant aduge of high explosives upon the German lines. It is estimated that a jnfllion shell* were thrown. The Exchange reports that many German prisoners state that they had just arrived from the Russian front, and were re-equipped in Berlin. Great optimism prevails in Paris. Newspapers comment op the fact that the Censor permit* tiu. word victory to be applied to the Champagne battle for the first occasion since the battle of the Marne. Several trains of Britieh-mede prisoners arrived at Havre. All are glad that their fighting ie over.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 232, 29 September 1915, Page 5
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