NO MAN'S LAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 6

NO MAN'S LAND.

GRIM STRUGGLES IN DARK. LURKERS AND PROWLERS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON", August 22. Mr. Reach Thomas, "Daily Mail" correspondent on the Western front, describes a now kind of lighting .practised! by the Germans. Singly and in numbers they lie hidden in shell-holes, like trapdoor spiders or Jicrmit crabs. They remain "doggo" during tbe daytime. At night, however, they become busy with machine guns or automatic rifles. They are mostly volunteers, and have sworn never to surrender. They make no bones about shooting any of their comrades who do. Our snipers are continually stalking them. Both sides make use of makeshift trenches of shell-holes linked together, and a bewildering diversity of mushroom defences spring up everywhere during the night, making No Man's Land Every Man's Land. The strange, grim warfare going on here resembles the contimioua struggle for existence amongst the beasts of the jungle. Some lie in lairs, some prowl to spring. It is the Germans who lurk. We who hunt.