HORRORS OF WAR.
GERMAN SOLDIERS rMPRKS.SIOXS. LONDON, November '_'(). Diaries of cap'.nrod German solUiors, referring to tho ofi'octs of tshel! lire. say that when shells are dropping in front, behind, to tho right and loft, to remain in expectation of death or injury, without beinu able to mako any resistance, to hear tho screams of the wounded who cannot rocoivo attention in the uarrow tranches, is a sensation appreciable only by thoso who have experienced it. A diary of a man who retreated under terrible shell and rifio lilt l . says :—''Could yon imagine hell opened and pouring out firo from a thousand craters?"' A Bavarian non-commi.-siunod oflicer writes:—''The villages are in ruins and like. .slaughter-hou.-e.s. Do-ad horses and bodies of men torn to pieces in pools of blood form a picture of horror. Tho enemy's sholl■fi.ro is hellish, and through it all conio tho cries of tho wounded. Even tho bravest tremble, and the men tell their rosaries continually. Only One above cau heli> us."
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15137, 28 November 1914, Page 9
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