A HARROWING PICTURE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2588, 9 October 1915, Page 5

A HARROWING PICTURE

'GERMAN FIRST LINE AFTER ' BATTLE OF CHAMPAGNE. . By Telegraph—Tress Association—Oopyxlgit, Paris, October 7. 'A French soldier gives a - harrowing description of the Champagne battlefield, seen while searching for fallen, comrades. . . Ho says .that tho Gonnan barbed wire was only fifty yards from the French first lino trenches. Tho effects of tho terrible bombardment were seen everywhere. Tho soil was Iraret open: by the shells, and amid the twisted wire it was ■ impossible to go thirty, yards in"' tho .German trenches without seeing bodies shattered by explosions, and ■ sometimes" Several "corpses /twisted: together. Some had their arms raised,' unsupported.. One was,-found .leaning against rv trenoli in tho act oi aim.. Ho was without a rifle, though! his arms and fingers were sticking stiffly, in the air. He passed the bodies of more Zouaves and Algerians in front of the second line trenches, whom the . machine-guns had: mown down, also several abandoned German machine-guns on the border of •a wood, which cost the French dearly.The wood itself was thickly strewn with! German dead. . The French advance at this point was fivo and a half miles in a straight line. Ho met wounded who said with enthusiasm: "At last we aro going aheadg This time it is warfare." ■ DEAF MUTES IN GERMAN FIRING LINE SPECIAL OOJIPANIES DIRECTED.' BY SIGNS. By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrigWl ... ' London, October 7. The Amsterdam newspaper "De Cpu* rant'-' states that Germany is sending deaf mutes to the front in special companies. ; They receive their commands by signs. ' ■■■'■ v •' Most of the reinforcements fer tile Western front came .from training camps, ahd not- from the 'Eastern theatro..