THE ARTILLERY PREPARATION
PREVIOUS BOMBARDMENTS WERE CHILD'S PLAY
(Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.) PARIS, 26th September. What is going to happen on the Somme front cannot be foretold or exactly foreseen. For seventy-two hours a bombardment of stupendous intensity has raged, smashing up the German lines. French and British guns of all calibres are belching forth thousands of tons of projectiles, and the earth tremors resemble earthquakes. The previous artillery preparations in Picardy and at Verdun were child's play. The aviators are assisting by dropping hundreds of bombs at points of strategic importance. A great number of ammunition depots have been blown up, and stations burnt. ENEMY SAYS ATTACKS FASLED. LONDON, 25th September. A German official communique states : The enemy's advances at Railcourt and Bouchavesnes failed. We repulsed strong. French attacks north-west of Souville (north-east of Verdun). We.brought down nine aeroplanes yesterday.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19160927.2.47.5
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 76, 27 September 1916, Page 7
Word Count
141THE ARTILLERY PREPARATION Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 76, 27 September 1916, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in