WHERE GERMANY'S LOSSES WERE HEAVIEST

Nelson Evening Mail, 6 July 1916, Page 5

WHERE GERMANY'S LOSSES WERE HEAVIEST

HALF A DIVISION DESTROYED ; AT MONTAUBAN. (Australian and N. Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 6, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 5. The Daily Mail's correspondent say 3 thatsame of the prisoners were mad, Doubtless tihey had seen enongh to make men mad.; Some were crouching in the dog-crats, afraid, either to fight or surrender. Referring to the heroism of the Britishers in marching steady through a triple barrage of curtain fire, , he says that when they paraded in decimated numbers, the enemy in turn- heroically left their trenches and erected machine guns on the parapets. The two parties fought in the open with' heroism that : could not go further. The Germans incurred the heaviest single loss during the counter-attack on Montauban where half a division, advancing; jn close order was completely destroyed. '. -v A French officer describing the British artillery work on the . German trenches,- says they pitted shell holes <is •Tegular and closely as a machine perforates a sheet of postage stamps. Amsterdam and Berlin, reports agree - that the Allies scored an undeniable success in spite of the General Staff's great preparations, .by sending troops from Riga wh2e the Landsturm and the Xandwehr'garrisons in the interior were hurriedly sent to France. ADDZTIONtAIi PRISONERS TAKEN. (Australian and N-Z. Gable Association.} (Rec. Jr-ly 6, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 5. Sir Douglas Haig'reports hared-to-hand fighting-, andi bombing continues between the. Ancre and the Somme. Additional "prisoners have been taken.