TRENCH WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 25226, 13 July 1944, Page 5

TRENCH WARFARE

GERMAN REVERSION INDICATED

ENEMY DEAD LITTER COUNTRYSIDE

(Rec. noon.) LONDON, July 12. A British United Press correspondent says that the advance towards Lessay is timely, because the enemy has been /digging in in the style of the last war. He had elaborate communications, trenches, and! dugouts, suggesting that he still tends -tjo revert to trench warfare whenever a temporary stalemate sets in.

The Forest de.Montcastre was cleaned up this morning, and the Americans are now south of there.

An Associated Press correspondent says that the Germans are making_ a savage yard-by-yard defence of Saint Lo's fields and hedgerows. On the ridges before the city, which are littered with enemy dead, the Germans took a terrible beating under a nightly artillery barrage which thundered from dawn to dusk yesterday. "From a ridge overlooking Saint Lo gruesome evidence could be seen of the price the Germans paid in trying to stem the American drive. Bodies in grotesque positions lay in ditches and! alongside thick green hedges, which were torn by shrapnel and clipped by machine-gun bullets. The Americans covered most of the bodies with the enemy's own blankets. They will be taken away later and buried with neat white crosses to jnarfc. the last resting place of the Fiifirer's defenders."