CROWN PRINCE'S ATTACK IN ARGONNE.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6302, 1 October 1915, Page 5

CROWN PRINCE'S ATTACK IN ARGONNE.

Most Furious of the War.

"Rec Sept 30, 935 pin * Paris, Sept 29 A wounded French officer, describing the Crown Prince's latest attack in the Argoune, declares it was the most furious of *he war. The tremendous bombardment, to wliich the French guns replied, liad little effect The French parapets melted «,waj, but the French did not liincli and the .German guns abruptly ceased fir-" ingNew Kind of Liquid Fire. new kind of liquid lire, a mixture of tar and petrol, was projected ■on the French treuchos, making an almost unbearable.heat. The French ! stood their ground. Huddeuly the German infantry loomed up At intervals between the liquid fires we poured in streams of lead, but the human wave slowly reached our trouches and bloody hand to hand h'ghtiug followed in dense smoke. Wo were obliged to fall back. Our reserves dashed forward, but were stopped by a curtaiu of lachrymatory shells. We pufc on respiiatoi's, but they were uuavailiug. Germans Waver and Break. Nothing daunted, we dashed through the vapour, holding our breath aud with eyes streaming. We fell in serried masses on the Germans, who-wavered and broke. Our artillery prevented the German supports I coining up, and thus after twenty-four hours fighting the enemy retired to :their trenches, though they held ours i here and there.