THE FIGHT FOR THE SCHWABEN REDOUBT
Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. (Rec. October 24, 8.20 p.m.) Lgndon, October 24. While Mr. Philip Gibhs is recuperating in England, Mr. Percival Gibbon, will represent the "Daily Telegraph." and the "DaiLv. Chronicle" on the Western front. Mr. Gibbon thus describes tho fighting at the Scliwaben redoubt: "I had just come from Russia, where I had Been heavy artillery firing, but what I saw was nothing liko tho Western front. There was never this pouring out of shells in a cascade, in a, cloud-burst of steel fire. The Bavarians suffered hea.vily from our machine-liko attack. Great numbers of bodies are lying in the open before the trenches. The net result was that we gained from two hundred to four hundred yards on a front of five thousand yards."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 5
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