CAPTURE OF RISING GROUND ACCURATE ARTILLERY FIRE.
THE POPULATION BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES. (TIMES AND SIDNEY SUN SBRTICBB.) (Received March 9, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Bth March. " Eye- Witness " says : "A great many attacks at the present stage aim at capturing rising ground, as it is of the utmost importance to gain positions from which the enemy's trenches, batteries, and communications may be observable. The effect of artillery fire is now so great that it is almost true to say that infantry is used more to screen the guns than anything else ; all offensive action is dependent on sustained, intensely accurate artillery fire." " Eye- Witness"" ac^ls : "A captured German states that the population behind the German lines live in abject servitude, beings compelled to mend the roads, dig trenches, and thrash corn. They are» paid in army rations, without which they would starve, as all foodstuffs are commandeered. "
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 7
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