FRENCH DEVOTION AND SELF-SACRIFICE.
Inferno of Shell and Machine
Gun Fire.
Rec Oct 1, 10 40 pm
Paris, Oct 1
Accouuts dwell on the inipetuousity of the French dash in the Champaguo battle. These say that never can the devotion and self-sacrifice in an inferno of shell and machine gun JUu be narrated Despite the great destruction of the German entanglements, great stretches of wire remained. In negotiating these and bombing the trenches everything that was heroic was displayed by the French.
The fire from the sunken German machine guns explains the enormous proportion of leg wounds among the French.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6303, 2 October 1915, Page 3
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