MADE GERMANS WEEP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 238, 5 October 1916, Page 5

MADE GERMANS WEEP.

TERRIFIC BRITISH XTRZ. CTEBTTHDIG WAS ABIAZE," (Ansttallaa aaa 2J.Z, CaMe As*icla«ira.s : TheJParis correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that * r Gennan--axjn-commissioned /officer taken prisoner at Cbmbles- relates - that iua .battalion's losses were ; heavy- before reeciing " Gombles. The only road "was swept by ' shells. _ Once inside the fortress they became as ifiseexnea abeolntely impregnable. Tfie snbte_rnuifiaa_defences" • included-circular.-chambeia capable of holding 'two -jSmfiJred" men. -Thei'subterraneanpassage3^^v;i»S"two^e»ts. "'The British- axfiflexys dSjJayeU devilish, precision," -eontimiea , tfe prisoner "They shelled .the weS " practically fcuried -aEve.-For "tare -d&vs the deloge of projectiles contained.* ~2fo words can ascribe it. _The whole earth, trembled,- and oar men. were-ia * feerful state of nervous excitement. Half ofthem were unablejto do. anything but weep. , Afew tried to and were never seen again.- -_ ' — '""Our officers affected fo be calm, but were more terrified, at heart tTian we . were. Soon* provisions ceased to' arrive. ■ fwp'.iajs more th 4 awfixl Bombardntßot' contained "above ns. : thing ablaze." Our hit became suffo- ■ eating, and ten of ".ofnr- comrades already deadj owing ia nervous eiibek: - - tJglgni the'assault came. - ; ourselves to the-eni, but could not with-stand-ther'Brifeirury. -.We clashed in sanguinary hand-to-Tiand fignting. and thea surrendered.' 1 . ; ..■' ■■-• ■ ,