TERRIBLE BOMBARDMENT BY ALLIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 6 September 1915, Page 5

TERRIBLE BOMBARDMENT BY ALLIES.

AMPLE STOCKS OF SHELLS

ARTILLERY AND GRENADE FIGHTING IN PROGRESS.

(Received Sept. 6, 10.30 a.m.)

LONDON, Sept. 5

A Central News correspondent in Northern France says that deserters coming into the French lines testify to the terrible effects of the Allied artillery, and that they had never suffered such intense and continuous bombardment.

The expenditure of shells is stupendous, but ample stocks have been accumulated at various bases.

PARIS, Sept. 5: A communique states: In reply to our destructive fire on Win tteflenes and works the enemy threw a hundred shells into Rheims, but there were ro victims.

Artillery and grenade fighting continues.