FOUR DAYS' BOMBARDMENT ON BRITISH FRONT

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 155, 30 June 1916, Page 5

FOUR DAYS' BOMBARDMENT ON BRITISH FRONT

SIMPLE AND TERRIBLE OBJECT OF THE ATTACK. EVERYTHING WITHIN GUN-RANGE SMASHED. ENEMY'S SLIGHT AND INEFFECTIVE REPLY. LOivDOST, June 29. Correspondents on the British front state that German lines has been in progress since the 20th. if tneen i the formidab.e character of the British artillery and isMnDflg s ammunition, they must have been dispelled. The object of the Br.t. h » simple and terrible. It is to kiil Germans in large numbers ansavßrM»» power, to destroy German batteries, brealc defcns.ve works, Lion stores, big down balloons, bombard men, con—a taMK billets, rest camps, and generally to cause the destruction *«*««■ °* en sive powers. The German reply thus far has been sl.ght and meflbeti«. rbe British appear to be working havoc and ■« * %££ of their guns along the whole front. A certain villageiwa the iocXadquarLs. That village which it nestled has gone. The boom, of the guns is pracu Loos salient.