EXTRACT FROM GERMAN LETTER.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 157, 5 July 1917, Page 5

EXTRACT FROM GERMAN LETTER.

14 DAYS OF HELLISH FIRE.

HM.P.LESB AGAINST THE

BRITISH

(Renter's Telecrams.) tßeceived J«ly 4, 6.30 p.m.) i LONDON, July 3. Router's special coriie{^)ondent at the Brit;sh fr-oat gives an extract from a German letter found at Messines Itidgfi:: "There, has been 14 days of hellish fi.ro day and night. We crouch togeblner in holes awaiting ow dooii!. wearing ,gas masks, ,as the JSng:ish fire 2,-as shells and hundi-ed-weightc of aerial torjpedoes. Trench work is iiapossible with shrapnel all night. So tar oitr disrision., composed of .three r-^g^entSj, has lost 3400 in barely thi«e months. We are -ipiite helpless against ihe JBritish.. We <eannot sib or ilie dowa. .Our ai-tiileiy cannot fire.. T©-day we all ihope to be made prisoners,, (otherwise we shall all go n:.ad."