LITTLE SHELL FIRE
QUIETUDE IN STRIKING CONTRAST WITH PREVIOUS BATTLES (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Oct. 16, 11.40 a.m) LONDON, Oct. 15. Mr Philip Gibbs writes After the first bombardment there was astonishingly little shellfire in s Flanders battle. The -quietude strikingly contrasted with the tumult of gunfire dur-. ing the battles thereabout in 1917. Wounded men returning all brought the same tale—that the enemy put up a fight with machine-guns and then surrendered. The chief characteristic of the fighting was the strength with which the enemy held the front line. Some fought with, extreme courage, sometimes rushing out machine-guns through our barrage and getting our men in the ope"'. Elsewhere they put up a poor resistance. One of their officers remarked, "What can you "expect when an armistice is probable in two Or three days-?"
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 249, 16 October 1918, Page 5
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