ROWS OF STANDING CORPSES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 87, 9 May 1916, Page 7

ROWS OF STANDING CORPSES.

Lr }' °® lcer .who has returned from I V erdun describes the following episode I iin the 'Petit Journal':— "It was at I daybreak,'' he says, "before Hill 288 ! at V acherattville, between two small | hills in a sort of valley. We perceived j , about 1500 ft away a. brown line from ! which human shapes stood out-. It was certainly the enemy who was doubt- I Vess preparing for a fresh assault. Our ia s opened fire at- p6int-blan<k range' and we- saw numbers of bodies spring ! into the aii-j but the attacking column i did not appear to move. I "When day dawned the mystery was j solved. Jho brown mass which our ar- i tulery had been shelling was a mass of German corpses so_ closely pressed to- i gethor that tile majority were standing i upright."—Reuter. |